ARCHIVES 2009 / Kaïros, sisyphes et zombies

Here is a show where you have a lot of fun, but that can suddenly lead to forced laughter and gnashing of teeth. Because here, people dance “right before the disaster”, that is, with the anxious jubilation of the last time. For the Greeks, Kairos represented the idea of the moment favourable for action, the timely but fleeting moment for doing things. Portrayed as an ephebus with winged feet, wearing a small tuft of feathers on his head, who has to be caught in flight at the right moment, Kairos remains our contemporary. Between happening and performance art, a small philosophical manifesto and a thesis on self-derision, Oskar Gómez Mata and the Alakran poke a hole in the downy reality in which we nestle, proposing this questioning on time: how do we stop the insignificant course of things to find the force of the moment again? We enter this theatre ritual like a life-sized board game, attracted by these actors on the razor's edge of madness and bad Taste. We leave with our conscience awakened and perceptions bared. Like Charlie Chaplin of Modern Times, prey to the mechanised clock, the idea here is to conquer the essential: the time of another possible life. ADB