EIXAM

EIXAM

Meaning “swarm” in Catalan, “eixam” is a theater piece performed by two dancers and a musician. It tells the story of two scientists in the desert investigating a rare species of desert locust. As they dance a dance of suspicion, mistrust and competition around each other, they are unexpectedly overtaken and overwhelmed by a swarm of phenomenal power.  Eixam is structured as a miniature conference; the encounter of two scientists engaged in the study of swarm theory and its practice. The performers don’t simply lead the spectators into a theater performance; rather they skillfully and consciously seduce them to participate in an experiment. Without noticing, the spectators are playfully transformed into a swarm and thus become part of the investigation. It is a dance comedy with a twist of Beckett and a hint of Roy Ayers. (Tanzhouse Festival, Salzburg Austria 2002 / Artist in Residence Cia Krampack, Barcelona 2003 / La Poderosa, Barcelona 2004 / Zaal 100, Amsterdam 2004 / Tanzhouse Festival, Salzburg 2004 / Tanzpool Festival, Vienna, Austria 2005 / Junge Hunde Festival, Meinigen, Germany June 2005 / INFANT festival, Novi Sad, Serbia June 2005 /   WUK, Vienna, Austria July 2006)