Departing from two points – the effect of mass media on the perception and purpose of love and its operation in the matchmaking world, the performance is questioning how love operates in today’s life economy. What are the processes through which emotions are made a commodity?
Author: Dragana Bulut
Collaborators: Zeina Hana, Chris Scherer, Heike Albrecht
»I know you
I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you
I know what you’ll do
You’ll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream
La, la, la.«*
Ingredients:
Market of Love invites you to examine the ways love is being choreographed and the processes that lie behind this social choreography. Departing from two points – the effect of mass media on the perception and purpose of love and its operation in the matchmaking world, the performance is questioning how love operates in today’s life economy. What are the processes through which emotions are made a commodity, and what is the logic that predetermines the way we relate, and that to certain extent choreographs our behaviour?
»Lady Tremaine: What on earth have you’ve been doing?
Cinderella: Dreaming, that’s all.
Lady Tremaine: Well, then wake up.«**
* Sleeping Beauty, written by Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence
** Cinderella by Walt Disney
Admission free, but as places are limited please make a reservation by e-mail at pk@akademie-solitude.de
A cooperation by Akademie Schloss Solitude and STATION Service for Contemporary Dance, Belgrad.
participated in
Image: Agnieszka Mastalerz, »Mould«, 2025, 7min 21sec, film frame. Performers: Adrianna Mrowiec (and choreographer), Agnieszka Janosz, Director of Photography: Marcin Gołąb. The film was financed by the Young Poland Scholarship for 2024, granted by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Rachel Gill, »The Eight Positions or Could This Go on Forever?«, 2024. Performer: Chelsea Hecht. Photo: Anna Witenberg.
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