“I don’t remember what I was thinking about lying in a hospital bed. Some thoughts however run through my mind…”

“Exerese monobloc” poses many questions concerning disability, physical handicap and its impact on dance movement. Can the movement be the same precise and communicative when performed by disabled person (dancer)? Do we know what may disability be in dance? Can disability be a part of dance? How disability may be mirrored in a complexed choreography?

“Broken” dance vocabulary, making efforts while trying to sit on a chair with an immobilized limb, dance with protection of crutches, reminiscences of lost dreams, feelings, experiences and reactions during hospitalization are the main topics of this unconventional piece. “Exerese monobloc” is a story about overcoming life troubles, making dreams come true, achieving goals, pursue to be oneself…

Idea on creating “Exérese monobloc” came out in the middle of August 2003 in the course of intensive conversations with Pia. Conversations about dance art and if it can be performed by people with physical disabilities. Wish to come back on stage, trying to answer to all those questions, especially after seven years of any attendance in dance profession, was the main reason to tell the story with movement.