A S T E R I A

 A choreographic project by
CBC – Christine Bonansea Company

A S T E R I A

A choreographic project by CBC – Christine Bonansea Company 

D e s c r i p t i o n

ASTERIA is a choreographic project that questions temporality.
The piece is created through an iterative process of composition using the concept of “eternal recurrence” – a central point in the writings of Nietzsche: with infinite time and a finite number of events, events continue to recur again and again infinitely..
Artistic Director:
Christine Bonansea

Dancer/Performer:
Christine Bonansea, Yuko Matsuyama, Yuri Shimaoka, Ann Trepanier, Yuko Kaseki, Layton Lachman, 
(first versions: Beth Graczyk, Phoebe Osborne, Amy Gernux, Abby Crain, Barbara Topi)

Sound Composition and Performance:
Jorge Bachmann, Danishta Rivero and Yuko Matsuyama

Photography by: 
Sigel Eschkol

Duration:
60min

V I D E O

D e s c r i p t i o n

ASTERIA is a choreographic project that questions temporality
Each of my work develop new strategies for researches, discovering experimental forms and challenging the theater dramaturgy.
With Asteria I’m developing the piece through an iterative process of composition using the concept of “eternal recurrence” – a central point in the writings of Nietzsche: with infinite time and a finite number of events, events continue to recur again and again infinitely..

According to the philosopher view, the eternal recurrence proposition is a proof of the absurdity or meaningless of life, a proof that no meaning was given to the universe from on high.

I create a recurrent choreographic structure, developed with a cycle alternance of the material. The compositions of ASTERIA vary according to the specific element to the piece: bodies, principles of movement and/or choreography, sound composition, light and spaces. Each ASTERIA elaborates new parameters of variation and comparison that discuss the concept of Eternal recurrence.

This is a woman piece. I chose a woman mythical Greek figure – Asteria- to incarnate a system of multiplication, a symbol of potential and interpretation.
The woman embodies the natural cycle  and potential of life by her condition. 
In a cyclic energetic space, the solo occurrences interconnect and reveal the potential body transformation through the time.
The number of performative events will provide the variety of ASTERIA within a great spectrum of temporality.

The connectivity and interferences of the bodies in ASTERIA and the variety of the composition forms - with a collection of information from the spaces, performers and the evolution of the choreographic form-  evoke the eternal recurrence of Nietzsche.  Therefore it questions his idea: It will shown the possibility of each life identified as a unique experience repeated infinitely as well as demonstrate how the impact of temporality creates systematically new forms and experiences on each of them.
  • Performing Dates
    • May 1/2015 Danspace Project, Food for thought (work in progress) – NYC – First iteration
    • June 5-7/2015 Firehouse Fort Mason – San Francisco International Festival – Second iteration
    • August 13-16/2015 DOCK11 – Berlin – Third iteration
    • 01/18/2016 Judson Church movement research program –  (APAP NYC) – Fourth iteration
    • 12/13/14 August 2016 DOCK11 – Fifth iteration
Production:
Christine Bonansea company
With the support of Dock11 Eden Berlin, Artscape – (Toronto Canada) artistic residency and the San Francisco International Festival 2015.
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