The performance lasts three hours. The audience is encouraged to experience the performance in its entirety. Entry, leaving the room and return possible at any time.
The dancer and artist Dana Michel creates performative situations that follow a logic of their own. She creates a world of objects which she fills with new meanings – doing away with binary thinking and transcending linear time.
In ‘MIKE’ Dana Michel facilitates an experiential space that is based on working culture and self-respect. In a three-hour performance, the public experience how their sense of time and space can shift to offer new perspectives on perception. The performer breaks with conventional ideas, working with humour and intelligence and prioritising curiosity above provocation. Supposed “minor characters”, objects in everyday use, turn into lead actors in this remarkable event. ‘MIKE’ is an extension of the nomadic aesthetic that has become Michel’s calling card over the course of her career. Her works play on numerous influences covering improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary. MIKE is confronted by the question: is it possible to live a life in public that mirrors what is inside us? Trust the solo artist, and one positive answer will be followed by the next…