A rare marriage between modern dance and comedy is the performance “Zonder” by award-winning Argentine choreographer Aselén Parolin, which will be presented today, at 9 pm, at Piraeus 260, as part of the Epidaurus Festival in Athens.
To the sound of Strauss’s “Blue Danube,” three performers on stage try to find their rhythm and coordinate with each other in a game whose rules are constantly changing. Their insistence on completing the project, ignoring the decaying scenery, is almost moving.
With humor and self-mockery, the great choreographer Asselin Parolin, who has lived and worked in Europe since 2000, creates an ode to the absurd, the useless, the random, orchestrating in “Zonder” a joyful nightmare, a choreographic disorder open to all possibilities.
Against the obsession with goal setting, meaning, the beginning and end of everything, against the logocentrism of modern Western society, Parolin suggests that we challenge the fear of failure and firmly accept our mistakes.