Photographs by Joe Smith (1-2) and Darrin Zammit-Lupi (3-4)
50,000 Thoughts
50,000 Thoughts
Choreography by Francesca Abela Tranter
Premiered as part of Tlieta(3)
A metaphorical dance inspired by whomever, or wherever we are born, we are all made of the same brain matter. Fact, the average person has between 50,000 thoughts per day. With this amount of nonsensical inner traffic and congested lives, how open, available, can we be? It controls sensory integration, thought, voluntary movement, language, reasoning, perception, and memory. When we are not so full of thought, other parts of us surface, laughter, generosity, gratitude? When our awareness is not so crowded perhaps instead of anger there the steady flow of thinking a thick filter between our thoughts and feelings, constant mental traffic prevents us from seeing clearly, and listening, an incoherence in the train of thought that drives one mad, or is it that the thought just gets stuck there, and keeps presenting itself over again forever?
Tlieta(3) is an evening of three works by female choreographers and composers. The evening is themed with the context of identity whereby the works collectively engage with notions of reflection, communication, construction, destruction and resistance. The role of the female choreographer against the tradition of male choreographers in dance is one of particular interest in contemporary discourse. A topic that has in some ways become a matter of urgency within the global dance industry, it highlights the ironically disproportionate visibility of women in dance when it comes to choreography.
ŻfinMalta will be presenting the works of the emerging choreographer Rachel Calleja, established dance maker Francesca Tranter and internationally acclaimed dance artist Athanasia Kanellopoulou. This trio of strong female voices will be reflected through their individual questions on identity, space, gender and their inherently Mediterranean sensibilities. The evening will also include sound scores by Jess Rymer (UK), Veronique Vella (Malta) and composer and sound designer Konstantina Polychronopoulou (Greece).
Duration: 20 minutes
Production team
Composer: Veronique Vella
Costumes: Deborah Rossetta