Julia Geröcs
LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance Serie # 23
A performance about paraplegy, diarrhea and Heidi
Behind a microphone, Julia Geröcs tells the story of Lara, a paraplegic female patient. The poignant and vividly detailed first-person narrative, expressed from the perspective of a nurse, reports bluntly on the daily body care of the paralyzed woman and on how to cope with those chores. It describes relentlessly the most intimate details and knows thereby no taboo. Julia formulates the text saliently: the timing is clear, the words occasionally chopped off. The act relies strictly on an interplay of text, sounds, facial expressions, all supplemented by a choreography of straightforward, symbolic actions that gives the impression that the text occasionally dances. The result is an unforgettable and poetic performative experience.
Awards
- 2.prize, 2014 Swiss Performance Award (Le Commun BAC, Geneva)
“The relentless attention to detail, the courage to alienate both the Intimate and the Personal and a precise choreography that creates simultaneously distance and proximity allow the performer to speak about the abysses of life” - Jury of the Swiss Performance Award