Solo – 25′
What violence must one inflict upon oneself to find one’s own identity?
A plunge into the depths, ultimately becoming nobody.
There’s someone I don’t know who inflicts violence upon me. It’s this imprint of myself that destroys me. We construct ourselves with images so clumsy. To touch something that doesn’t express itself, so abstract that it becomes intimate. As if the intimate were hidden in symbols.
Emptiness overwhelms me. Love, devouring, disappearance.
Who am I in this torture? These are monsters. My monsters, from which I make a cushion; it brings softness. It’s not just an abyss, not just a nightmare. It belongs to me, it builds me.
“Too Mad To Be True” is a solo by KangKang Deng, choreographed by Karine Ponties and produced by Dame de Pic – dramaturgy and lighting creation by Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin, costume and puppet by Kangkang Deng, external perspective by Natacha Belova.
Photos © Andrea Messana