Ioannis Mandafounis / Fabrice Mazliah / May Zarhy

If you try to put aside the wish to understand what you see, what is left to watch?What could be the feeling then?

Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah, and May Zarhy – all three of whom share a connection with the Forsythe Company from various contexts – embark on a quest to localize the absolute point zero in their eponymical piece ›Zero‹. Created through a process of mutual questioning, thinking, and talking, they explore through dance the meaning of memories and their impact upon identity, attempting to capture the individual in a state after the total loss of personal history.

It is in this space of nothingness that Mandafounis, Mazliah, and Zarhy induce a series of volatile, atemporal situations in which the performers become uprooted and where that which has not yet come to pass meets that which indeed has.

Premiere: 21.11.09 Festival Automne en Normandie (Rouen)Concept, stage design, performance: Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah, May ZarhySound design: Johannes Helberger

Co-production: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Festival Automne en Normandie (Rouen), Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen)

Generous support has also been provided by: The Forsythe Company