The video essay entitled IN BE-TWEEN presents creative work, as well as the process of rehearsing a dance project of the same name. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, live culture has been partially relocated online.
Czech dancer Tereza Ondrová and her Italian colleague Francesca Foscarini have also moved there. From March 2020 until now, they have been preparing their new dance piece “IN BE-TWEEN”. No time together in the rehearsal room, mostly online, each in their own apartment, their own city, or in their own rehearsal room. The video essay is a report not only about one project, but also about live art – dance art in the digital age, in the social distancing age, in an age of great uncertainty. Who is Tereza and who is Francesca, but also what led them to collaborate is, of course, another topic of this short essay.
IN BE-TWEEN, the title plays not only with ambiguity between the preposition “between”, but also with the noun “tween” and its pronunciation, which resembles the word “twin”. In the dance production, which (as we all hope) will be created in the future, two mature women, dancers, performers, Tereza Ondrová and Francesca Foscarini, who, in the opinion of others, are very physically similar, will stand side by side on the stage. Between them you will discover Anita, a teenager, not yet a woman, but a girl, reminding us of a world full of possibilities…
