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Eva Burghardt and Nina Wehnert: Finish tango (See photos , bootom of the page) Burghardt's and Wehnert's "Finish tango" was premiered last year and has become popular in Berlin already. The title refers to the last part of the performance, in which a wine glass and a box of orange juice dance tango as they are shifted on a table in jerky movements. What makes the piece so humorous is not just the simulation of the sensual rhythm by silly utensils, but also the parody of the pathos associated with tango. Look at Eva Bughardt (left on the right photo): Sitting upright in her chair, she gazes into the eyes of her partner while resolutely moving her glass forth and back. Fatal desire is at the heart of the tango stereotype and a stony face is a must. Flamenco, by the way, relies on the same stereotype: any smile would expose its inflated pathos as pretence. This is why both tango and flamenco find their way into modern performances only as a parody. They are rare examples of terminal branches in the phylogeny of dance, dead-ends in the quest for the expression of emotions by body movement and music. The tango parody made the piece famous, but it is just its last part. "Finish tango" starts with Burghardt and Wehnert sitting on chairs at a table and dancing in synchronized movements of their upper bodies above and on the table. A performance with small boxes of fruit juice (I think it was "Hohes C") follows. In a synchronized fashion, each performer grasps a box, places it on the table, turns it around, takes off the drinking straw, sticks it into the box and draws a sip. During this procedure they repeat a mantra which sounds like this: "Eins zwei, eins zwei drei vier, unten oben, oben unten, weg". Used boxes are thrown aside. Unnecessarily but inevitably, a moment comes when a box with a straw sticking in it is used to sprinkle juice on the performer's dress in a slapstick manner. The speed increases and the performance culminates in a triumphal scene, accompanied by Black Eyes Peas's music. Nina Wehnert climbs onto the table and Eva Burghardt holds a handwritten panel "Art is beautiful". Autor: Petr Karlovsky |
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