The Metamorphosis N1

 

It is an unusual story by Franz Kafka. It is a series I did with the prerformer I photographed in previous conceptual approach.

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Thanks for your thoughts.

http://summarycentral.tripod.com/themetamorphosis.htm

 

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Of your two most recent, I prefer this one. He appears to be stirring in his bed of crumpled paper and I have the peculiar feeling that any moment his eyes will pop open. In a way this picture produces an uncomfortable feeling as if we were looking in on a private moment we have no business watching. Perhaps that's the choreographer's intention This seems more like a performance piece than a true dance.

Seems like a mix of The Golem with the Metamorphosis because of the word "Emet" on his crown-- ironic even without that connection.  I LOVE the swirling newspapers on either side of him.  I once read a novel by Yehoshua, and there was a section in it about an undersink so filthy the narrator states that even cockroaches would die of the filth.  I guess he swaddled in newspapers represents the underside of life.  In all this , look theatrical    Chag Sa'ma'ach, Pnina

Best regards Pnina!

PDE

Jack ,  it is a performer and not a dancer, he connected two well known stories. The one is Franz Kafka story and the second  is the "Lummox of Prague.

Donna,yes you have well observed the word ; TRUTH- EMETH.  that belongs to the second legend of the "Maharal"...He even just returned from Prague working on this stories there.He works with different artists . For me, again, it is a new experience.

Pierre, thanks as well for your interest.

To me, the most effective part of the photo is his makeshift hat, which seems to be trying to impose some structure on chaos.  I read the Metamorphosis in high school and remember it as being incredibly disturbing.  After years of working with severely mentally ill, I understand the terror of being pulled under and drowning in one's own mind.

Thanks for your very thoughtful comment. It is a disturbing creation and this realization of the performer  is well expressing  the spirite of  the story.