UNDER THE EYELIDS

Concept and direction: Laura Aris Alvarez
Created with and performed by: Sara Barbieri, Petra Chelfi, Elvis Hodžić, Zrinka Lukčec, Aleksandra Mišić, Martina Nevistić, Ognjen Vučinić
Music: Samir Kadribašić
Assistant Director: Jorge Jáuregui Allue
Costumes: Emina Kušan
Light design: Saša Fistrić
Photographs: Maja Kljaić


UNDER THE EYELIDS

“This is us, vulnerable, isolated, entirely self-contained yet altogether at the mercy of the elements. The ship of Fools is sailing tonight and all of us are aboard.”
Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries


This piece researches into Desire and tensions it creates. Desire claims life, pleasure, self-fulfilment, freedom, but also causes frustration, denial, fear or disappointment. We live in a society, which is in discord with nature, trapped in domestic comfort of keeping control, following the set up rules. Are we ready to dive into the unknown?
We might be civilized but our needs might not.

Seven dancers. Seven dreams, seven wishes, seven possible conclusions, seven attempts to deconstruct identity.


LAURA ARIS ALVAREZ - BIOGRAPHY
(Barcelona, Spain, 1977)
Laura studied dance and choreography at the Instituto del Teatro/Escuela Superior de Danza y Coreografía in Barcelona, Spain.         
She was awarded the Prize for Extraordinary Student in 1996. Between 1996 and 1999 she was part of Lanonima Imperial Dance Company from Barcelona, for the creations of: Identificación de un Paisaje (1997, in collaboration with Zagreb Dance Company), Cuerpo de Sombra y de Luz (1998) and the dance films Inquieta (1997) and Cuerpo de Sombra y de Luz (1999). She was awarded Lladró Award for the Best Performer at Festival de Valencia 1999. She was also associated with General Electrica collective, where she collaborated on various productions by Tomás Aragay: Cruza Cuando el Hombrecito esté en Verde (awarded with the First Prize for the Choreography at the XI Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid, 1997), Night (1998), John Kovack (1999). Since 1999 Laura is living in Brussels where she was a member of Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus for the creations and touring of Inasmuch as life is borrowed (2000), Scratching the Inner Fields (2001), Blush (2002), What a body does not remember (reprise 2002), Sonic Boom (2004), Puur (2005), Spiegel (2006), Menske  (2007). Laura also performed in the dance films directed by Wim Vandekeybus Blush (2005), Here After (2007) and a short film: Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed (2000). She regularly teaches workshops related to the Ultima Vez dance vocabulary and contemporary technique lessons internationally.
She has been invited to teach at festivals and schools as: Impulstanz, Vienna, Austria; P.A.R.T.S Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, Belgium; State School of Athens, Greece; Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea; La Caldera, Barcelona, Spain; La Raffinerie, Belgium; Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, Spain; State School of Stockholm, Sweden; Zenep Dance Project, Istanbul, Turkey; Joint Adventures/Fit&Dance-Tanzschule Ziegler, Munich, Germany; CID Centro Internazionale della Danza in Rovereto, Italy; T.L.C.D.C, Mumbay, India; National Conservatory of Dance in Malaga, Spain.
Laura has assisted Wim Vandekeybus at numerous workshops and auditions.
At the end of 2008 her research project Ejercicios de Duelo was invited to the first edition of PASANTÍAS 08, granted by Malqueridas, Creaciones al Límite, Platform for research and development for New Artistic Forms.  In 2009 Laura Arís and Jorge Jáuregui created EMBER, an artistic platform that bears their works and collaborations. Since then they have been searching for their own artistic voice. They collaborate with several artists and their performances are being presented internationally. Together they created the duet La Era de los Cosmonautas; Impostura, where Laura as a dancer shares the stage with a singer Luciana Carlevaro; and a quartet Cola De Gallo, in collaboration with La Macana, Spanish Dance Company.    
Laura directed the performance Surprised By Joy, with twenty-four dancers of El Barco Taller Nacional de Danza, Costa Rica and El Buit as the second part of the Trilogy of the Unalterable, an international artistic project with artist from México, Russia and Spain commissioned by Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Artistic Direction of the Company: Snježana Abramović Milković
Producer: Petra Glad
Public relations: Kristina Krtanjek
Organization: Andreja Široki

The project has been realized with the support of Zagreb City Office for Culture, Education and Sport; the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Zagreb City Tourist Board.

Many thanks to: Primož Bezjak, TALA Dance Center, Ana Maletić School for Contemporary Dance, HIPP