Dance
LEE\VAKULYA
Burnt [ the eternal long now ]
Burnout usually is a very lonely experience. In Burnt [ the eternal long now ] Chen-Wei Lee and Zoltan Vakulya choreographically explore burnout as a social phenomenon. Because we collectively endure, but also unwillingly allow and sustain burnout. Taking this reality as a point of departure, they create a dance that explores extreme fatigue in relation to others. The dancers drive themselves into exhaustion, both together and alone. Sweat and determination are shared, eagerness feeds even more eagerness, and drives their common motor into overheat. The question we are left with is if the beauty of their efforts to support each other doesn’t tragically trigger their collective downfall.
