JACOB, a moving biography, a living human landscape that is composed gradually, comes alive, and exists exposed before us, without protective shields, without inhibitions. A newborn or a middle-aged person? A child just born or a person passing away?
JACOB attempts to find his own body, to experience, to taste, to discover and reveal his story. He is a creature with a murky past and an even more uncertain future and will dare to taste life like a child, with purity and innocence, with impetus, curiosity, and thirst, without shame.
JACOB coexists with his memories and his few dreams, which sometimes accompany him, while at other times they oppress him like nightmares.
JACOB will try to take us by the hand and, fearful as he may be, lead us into his world, which may also reveal our own fearful and dark places.
A durational performance where you can meet JACOB and sit with him, spy on him, taste what he is, or simply take a quick glance at him. You can leave but also come back and become, for a little or a long time, a witness to his world.
JACOB owns a detailed biography starting from the day he was born up to this present moment, written by Mike Rafail. His biography was used to create his face through the three-dimensional mask of Martha Foka, as well as his house, an installation by Alexis Vayianos and Elena Kotasvili. Fotis Nikolaou (both as a choreographer and a performer) experimented with the idea of the fragmented body. A body that, while carrying the knowledge of his age, reacts and behaves through the unripe and timid child's body. A condition that creates a continuous oscillation in movement, intention, actions, and decisions. A body that self-collides as it constantly confronts its two extremes. Balancing between the absolutely different, the clear distinctiveness, and the almost prohibitive contradictions, he struggles to find the obvious in life, the truth. Original music for Jacob is composed and the sound landscape is created by Nama Dama, offering an intriguing platform for sociopolitical commentary. JACOB takes you by the hand and, scared as he is, like you, to dare together to walk and possibly see that darkness is not only the opposite of light.
Through choreography, live music, visual art, and storytelling, Jacob creates a small multidimensional experience that engages the senses and emotions of the audience, inviting them to journey alongside him through the limits of imagination and expression.
