DANCE FOR NOTHING (revisited), 2024

by Eszter Salamon

The performance Dance for Nothing (revisited), 2024, by Eszter Salomon, is part of the program of the exhibition Taking the present times as a story line | Jean-Luc Godard - Plastic work.

Choreographer and filmmaker Eszter Salamon revisits John Cage's Lecture on Nothing (1949), a piece she first became involved with in 2010 through her solo performance Dance for Nothing, which combined Cage's words with his movement. This time, Salamon experiments with the modulation of physical movements, concentrating on the sonic aspect of this foundational lecture on nothingness, emptiness and composition. The artist adds depth by listening to one of her previous performances, in which she repeated the text after a slowed-down recording by American cellist and composer Frances-Marie Uitti, creating an aural exploration of transmission and transformation.

Salamon's fusion of body, voice and score creates the context for a meditation on the simultaneity of movement and sound, and on interpretation.

Concept and Performance: Eszter Salamon

Music: John Cage

Production: Botschaft GbR/ Alexandra Wellensiek, Studio ES / Elodie Perrin, Institute of Speculative Narration

Acknowledgments: Grazer Kunstverein (Austria), Tom Engels, Lilou Vidal