KESSLER TWINS

Terrestre_Movement in still life

What to say about the Kessler Twins? DADAUMPA! DADAUMPA!
Our research field includes body, dance and pictures, and our name is inspired to the mythic duo consisting of Alice and Ellen Kessler. We love their naďve "sense of beauty", and the fact that they let us glimpse some themes that are now so central in the contemporary art reflections: the doppelganger, the synchronic/diachronic relationship, the repetition and its breaking, the game and the nonsense. And it is not the simple rhizomatic concatenation the reason of our love, but rather the desire to confront us with each of these themes they raised, with their deformations and every possible updates.
Now, with the same unchanged passion, the new Kessler Twins attempt an aesthetics which privileges the body and its possible representations, in order to try to see if Alice and Ellen were right when, in "La notte č piccola per noi", they sung: the time will stop here, it will stop here, everything will remain, everything will remain so fabulous, so fabulous, only for us, only for us, for us... Ore maybe if they leaved something for us too! The Kessler Twins is composed by Simona Bertozzi, Marcello Briguglio and Celeste Taliani.

What of time if not its quality.

A terrestrial character is one caught in an act of re-composition-evolution, reminiscence and alienation. When updating its thought/motion, the body moves within rhythmic articulations of colour and intensity, as though masterfully attempting to balance what it is, what it has been, and what it could be. It seems to maintain itself by virtue of its intrinsic instability. It is in the precariousness of its sustainability that it finds balance. It aims at what is essential for purity of form, where the content of a rebirth knows how to leave an impression. A movement of both the body and the mind which constantly renews imagery in order to not remain imprisoned in the past. It opens itself to the elliptical possibilities offered by human biological memory and its own terrestrial nature. It follows nonlinear trajectories of variable velocities. Its very presence is fluid and marks the time of the dialogue with memory which spills over and returns to pronounce interstices, extensions of the spinal column, as well as deployment and vacillation of the limbs.

What of space if not is quantity.

In a place which is at ease with saturation, uniform in the non homogeneity of its shapes, in a continuous state of overturning the zenith and the nadir, memory marks out its area of representation with movement but does not allow a glimpse of even (virtual) possibilities of where its representation could end. In fact, in its spatial quantification, memory behaves in such a way as to choose, divide and pervade some of the images generated by biological memory, and updates them in a single place. In a causality which is by no means chaotic, where the potential of action is never fully clarified, memory feels itself to be free from the limitations forced upon it by the interaction between a body and a demarcated space, free from the limitations forced upon it by the interaction between a thought and its (pre)determined past, and it can finally try to represent itself.

Authors: Maria Celeste Taliani, Simona Bertozzi, Marcell Briguglio
Director: Maria Celeste Taliani
Choreographer and dancer: Simona Bertozzi
Sound designer : Roberto Passuti
Light designer: Marco Cavallo - Dominga Colonna
Producers: Riccione TTV

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