Performance
| Documentation of The Rituals of Spring Equinox at 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, 30 july 20009. | |
| (C) David Bebber, courtesy the artist and 176 / Zabludowicz Collection.
Direction / make-up / props - Tereza Buskova Performers - Zoe Simon, Eliska Kasparova, Honza Malik Live electric cello - Bela Emerson This event has been supported by the Camden Open2Dance Festival, Czech Centre, 176. |
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| July 30th 2009 will be a night that is hard to forget. The artist herself was convinced that there was a guiding presence throughout the event. The evening was so overwhelming that nobody seemed surprised when people started collapsing and glasses spontaneously exploded at the after performance drinks. With constant improvisation, scenes from the Spring Equinox film and screen prints were restaged, reshaped and embellished live to the mesmeric sounds of Bela Emerson. The earthly figures of the Nanohach dancers (Eliska Kasparova & Honza Malik) revolved wildly around the deity Ostara (Zoe Simon) and played out a physical narrative that embodied a spectrum of different stages of romantic human attachment......the 50 minute performance in 176 was reverentially received by 70 in an atmosphere that increasingly reminded me of the shamanic Voodoo ceremonies seen in Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen (The Living Gods of Haiti). Like a humid summer storm of experiences, the event began gently, reaching peaks of excitement that were delicately held back by Buskova's guiding hands, only to change direction and return with increasingly sexualised vigour to flood the audience with a sense of oblivion in the face of the raw power of nature, fertility and ritual. Buskova and her collaborators left their mark at the historic 176 on that night. Jonathan Hurlow | |
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| Act Art 2008, Live performance "FESTIVE GARMENT" collaboration between Tereza Buskova & Zoe Simon | |
| A collaboration between Tereza Buskova and Zoe Simon, 'FESTIVE GARMENT' is a performance piece that physicalises ancient grieving rituals and is influenced by the Jewish grieving ritual of tearing ones clothes as an outward sign of grief. however in this case the bride makes herself completely naked by tearing all the clothes from her body. Zoe Simon as the bride will wear a traditional Czech dress made from paper and card by Buskova, which she will slowly tear from her body. This repetitive action also has erotic overtones, as the repetition hints at the lonely bride touching herself to feel alive once more and to remember the closeness she found with her dead husband. The repetitive movement also mimics the caged animal driven mad by its confinement, acting out this strange ritual again and again that puzzles and captivates those who watch, but only makes sense to the animal itself... Festive Garment like the rest of Buskovas work, has an intimate quality. We, the audience, are transported to a different world to observe a character acting out a traditional yet mysterious ritual. This collaboration has an intimate feel, but at the same time is very theatrical and is full of ritual actions. |
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| From the SEDUCED show (October 2007 - February 2008) at the Window Gallery at Central Saint Martins on Charring Cross Road. Inspired by Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now at Barbican Art Gallery. | |
| Title: 'Beauty for One Day' 26 October - 2 november 2007 Media: Installation of Screen Prints / live performance |
Direction, make-up, props by Tereza Buskova Performers: Zoe Simon & Joni Levinson |
| www.seduced-twg.com | |
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