Call Me Three Times is a piece navigating fragmented dream states and realities of desire. It is an exploration of possible fantasies and their limits. Once you localize and formulate fantasy, what are the consequences of making these dreams tangible? Throughout the piece, the author is both the producer, the technical team, and the performative subject of each image.
Through segments articulated with live-video projection, pre-recorded video, and live-action, the audience is invited to explore the multiple facets of her own questions, vulnerabilities, and their falsification.
The piece was selected as the winner of the Mostra Nacional de Jovem Criadores in 2022.
24.03.2023 — 20h — Doors open at 19h30
mono Lisboa R. Feio Terenas 31A, 1170-176 Lisboa, Portugal
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Credits:
This work was developed within PACAP 5 – Performing Arts Advanced Programme, curated by João Fiadeiro in collaboration with Márcia Lança, Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio and promoted by Forum Dança. This work was selected as the winner for the dance category of the Mostra Nacional de Jovem Criadores in 2022.
Apoio à residência OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon. Accompaniment through the process: Biljana Lanier, Daphnée Gharaee, Leonor Lopes, Leo Shamah, Members of PACAP5 and the Forum Dança team, Miguel Perreira
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Call Me Three Times is a piece that explores eroticism as an ambiguous territory through the construction of dream-states, fantasy, and illusion. These elements are touched on with the fictional life of Clarissa Genosis, a contemporary dancer turned cabaret performer whose story serves as a baseline structure for the piece. The piece is an accumulation of images, fantasies, and fragmented stories which push the audience to confront their own mechanisms of desire and disgust in relationship to Clarissa’s social portrait.
This piece as it is came to its form in the context of the Programa Avançado de Criação em Artes Performativas 5 (PACAP). It is an exploration of self- produced image, erotic dance, and the auto-fabrication of desire through the lens of music-videos, pop stars, and video work. The process was about localizing, formulating, and searching for fantasies, their limits, and their consequences. The author is both the star of the show, the technical team, the director, and the back-up dancer all-in-one. Through segments articulated with live-video projection, pre-recorded video, and live-action, I invite the audience to explore the multiple facets of my individual questions, vulnerabilities, and their falsification.
Throughout the process, I have been engaged in studying the artificial construction of beauty with the use of video material, stage tools, and dance technique. How is femininity fabricated and how do mechanisms of desire latch on to these fabrications? I’m interested in the motivations to be on stage, the desire and lust associated with the performing body in pop culture and experimental contexts as well. I am interested in the stories we tell ourselves to keep going towards an artistic goal despite the ever-accumulating rational list of why not to. Lights, Camera, Action! And Then What? Go home girl! the camera stopped working.
This piece attempts to bring you along for the ride into dreams and fantasy, only to pull you back out when the lights come back on, or the actress removes her mask. With the use of poetics, joy, and humor Call Me Three Times ultimately aims to be an encounter between a person and a camera. Between the different facets of the dancing body. Between a film and a stage, a dancer and her client. Within the context of contemporary dance, this work introduces cinematographic elements such as simple dialogue, action, and décor to set a series of scenes which paint social realities as well as impossible fantasies.
Biography:
Katarina Lanier (USA)- http://katarinalanier.com/ is a bosnian-american dancer, visual artist, and independent researcher. In 2018, she obtained an undergraduate degree in dance from Université Paris 8 and a master’s in visual arts from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in 2020. She completed the PACAP5 program curated by João Fiadeiro in 2022, where she presented the first step of Call Me Three Times, a piece exploring the relationship between image production, desire, and movement. The piece was selected as the winner in dance of the Mostra Nacional de Jovem Criadores (PT). Over the last few years, she has created various contexts for artists to encounter such as Quand Tu Marches Tu Cours, a week-long residency of 10 artists sleeping and working in the Temple Saint Étienne in Mulhouse. Or Les Garces de la Saison Froide, a duo with Daphnée Gharaee researching diaspora methodologies in Gruyère (CH). She was a founding member of the radio collective BaklawaFM, a weekly show on http://MNE.FM/ composed of Daphnée Gharaee, Laura, and Madiana Kané Vieyra. In 2019, she was a part of the Kunstart program at the Fondation François Schneider with the collective l’Abreuvoir. In 2022, she was chosen as a performer to participate in the NOVe - NOVos Tempos NOVas Dramaturgias in Viseu (PT). She has a background in dance, philosophy, and social sciences. Her interests are in collaborative processes, the possible relationships between image production and body composition, and experimental uses of social codes. She has worked in the service industry as a baker, as well as a maid and server of all sorts, and she holds a particular interest in the ways economic exchanges are both reflectors and creators of culture. These days she is assisting and collaborating with choreographers, performers, and videographers. She is researching the contemporary contexts of erotic production and the poetics of desire.
