420PEOPLE: Václav Kuneš: Wind-up, Itzik Galili: The 2nd Monkey

Itzik Galili: The 2nd Monkey

A rigorous study and provocation by the choreographer Itzik Galili on the dancer’s needs and on the complex dynamics between a dancer and a choreographer. The constant relentless conflict of a dancer with his body and his acting abilities leads him to self-doubt and lack of self-esteem. Vanity and insecurity form a difficult union. The pursuit of perfection and the hopeless feeling that it can never be reached dominate a dancer daily life.
Behind the dialogue between a dancer and a choreographer, The 2nd Monkey offers a glimpse of a dancer’s interior monologues with him, and illustrates the gap between desire and reality.

Václav Kuneš: Wind-up

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
 Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

Wind-up intend to be a series of buildups of different lengths and kinds. Sometimes a real theme develops, escalates and crashes, one small element being left over that then starts to rise by itself... sometimes just a beginning or a single element that repeats without changing much and then disappears for no reason...
Individual memories that flash once and then are gone, only to maybe return later.



Created in co-production: Archa Theatre, The National Theatre - New Stage,  supported by Fondation BNP Paribas, Ministry of Culture CR,  The City of Prague and The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.