2017
Choreography, performance, costume Mansoureh Aalaii
Music Sound-mix
Video S.O.T.B.
Trailer Marc Plas
Discipline, performance, controlling our own emotions and behaviour are basic requirements in many working environments. Formerly trained as a dancer, Mansoureh Aalaii became aware in her medical practice that she increasingly established a distance between herself and her own body. After a short time, she learned how to keep the body at a distance, pushing it away to become a "white coat." Motionless, authoritative, the white coat acts as a spacer between the doctor and his/her own body as well as the body of the patients. In the dance-performance O.K., Mansoureh explores the doctor's relationship to his/her own body. By making the effort to hold her body back, it increasingly reveals itself as a dormant patient, a wounded body in bandages. Every moment holds the risk of tipping over into this inner antipole, the risk of falling into a patient’s body state…
2017
Choreography, performance, costume Mansoureh Aalaii
Music Sound-mix
Video S.O.T.B.
Trailer Marc Plas
Discipline, performance, controlling our own emotions and behaviour are basic requirements in many working environments. Formerly trained as a dancer, Mansoureh Aalaii became aware in her medical practice that she increasingly established a distance between herself and her own body. After a short time, she learned how to keep the body at a distance, pushing it away to become a "white coat." Motionless, authoritative, the white coat acts as a spacer between the doctor and his/her own body as well as the body of the patients. In the dance-performance O.K., Mansoureh explores the doctor's relationship to his/her own body. By making the effort to hold her body back, it increasingly reveals itself as a dormant patient, a wounded body in bandages. Every moment holds the risk of tipping over into this inner antipole, the risk of falling into a patient’s body state…