CRYSTAL BALL
​With and by: Igor Koruga & Paolo De Venecia Gile


​Your body is a host.
Another access point. 
A jar full of cookies. 
A sustained symphony of lives.
A conference of dance battles, flashbacks, fast forwards. 
A talk show.
Your body may be a crystal ball. 

How are you, you ask. 
Your face says something else - an intruder in disguise. 
Would you like a cookie?
You cannot pass. 
Dodging questions, TikToking around a wanted kind of care. 
The sum of the whole – is so small: I'm less than the sum of my parts. 
So take a look into this crystal ball.

A really realistic draft, 
a ceremony, taken out of your favorite talk show,
and made between Belgrade-Copenhagen gemeinschaft;
Zooming across islands of precarity, immunity, depression, and care 
Come and spill some tea, honey, along the way
Crystal Ball is a transnational performance in real-time taking place between Belgrade and Tarnby/Copenhagen in both online and physical spaces. It is a communication of art practices between a Sagittarian and an Aquarian. 
Creation and performance: 
Igor Koruga & Paolo De Venecia Gile
Production:
Tarnby Park Performance Festival, Copenhagen 2021
The work is part of artistic research supported by
​DAS THIRD Research program - DAS Graduate school, Academy of theatre and dance at University of Arts Amsterdam
Artistic directors of the festival:
Andreas Liebmann & Sophie Gordin
Costume design:
Thjerza Balaj
Video footage:
Max Morris-Doherty
Music by:
Marc Rebillet, El Professor & DJ Solomun

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The performance “Crystal Ball” gave us a look into a present future we could not foresee until the COVID-19 arrived. Besides the transnational aspect of having one participant in Denmark and the other participating via video-pieces recorded in Serbia, it also tackeled the relationship between inside (in insolation) and outside (among other bodies) as well as the distinction between a sick and a non-sick body also questioning, what is a sick body anyway? All this staged in a gender fluid setting with red leather, a feather and necklace-like top and the perfect amount of TikTok and news flash from Serbia.
Art journalist Mille Højerslev
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