Kultursommer Wien - Defne Ulue: Goodbye Moonmen | SOFIA SETA AND LUCIO SETA: STATE OF JOINT

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Defne Uluer: Goodbye Moonmen

show off is not interesting to me anymore.
i want to see real you.
tell me more about thebackstage.
im kind of hungry.
i meant im always hungry.
i better be doing physical movements.
dolphin roll is quite cool actually.
es gibt so viele menschen.
neden bunun için çabalamalıyım?
onda para var.
wirklich?
kinda.
çıplaklık mevzusu neden bu kadar olay?
nobody cares about it..
-mi acaba?
i shouldn't be eating gluten.
soy sauce has gluten.

Defne Uluer originally from Turkey, currently lives and works in Vienna. She studied Contemporary Dance at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and she was also an exchange student at Music and Arts University of Vienna Classical and Contemporary Dance Department.
She enjoys exploring different forms, such as clowning, recording and creating video collages, acting using sound/instruments/voice, moving partially physical without taking it too seriously, and creating an atmosphere with everyday objects. In this solo, She did not attempt to do one incredible thing and deepen it. Instead, she gathered all of her different interests and had fun creating something that showcased them all. 
“Because we don’t have to perform on an elevated stage with serious, cool choreography all the time. I’m overwhelmed by the inorganic expectations.”

Concept, Performance, Sound Recording: Defne Uluer
Costume Design: Vololek
 

SOFIA SETA AND LUCIO SETA: STATE OF JOINT

The work was conceived from the beginning to be performed in a public space, using the available architecture of the place and interacting with its proposals to configure a new space. 
Different objects such as ping pong rackets, the bicycles and others are unveiled during the piece and serve as a support to amplify the narrative of the work. Each object is presented with a particular identity and configures a situation most of the time of play and humor.

At the same time, the music chosen proposes moments of maximum tension and strong physicality, where the bodies experience states of confusion, euphoria and disconnection. The sound of the squash ball, the whatsapp audios of our parents for example, carries with it an emotional content that transports us to very clear memories that in turn were transformed into images and the discovery of a specific language of movement.

The piece proposes choreographic moments of precise unison playing with repetition, rhythm and musicality and also presents moments of short solos with new qualities of movement and which in turn serve as a transition to the following scenes. In this sense, the editing of the music and its narration plays an essential role as it sustains the thread of the piece and at the same time offers the spectator different atmospheres, sometimes more juvenile and playful and sometimes more tense and denser.

Dancers: Lucio Seta  and Sofia Seta
Sound Designer: Martin Crocco