Virtual Truth

VIRTUAL TRUTH

DIRECTED: MAYA M WORKMAN

WRITTEN: MAYA M WORKMAN

CHOREOGRAPHED: TINA DOBAJ

INSPIRATION

Premiere: BUNKER, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013

Virtual Truth is inspired by any woman in this world. A woman on a corner, a woman shopping, a woman behind the steering wheel, in the hospital in the magazine, a mother, a sister. And Magritte’s ambivalent stories told through witty and thought-provoking images. It is about women who have the need to explain how we feel, the truth about us and how and why we actually want to admit the weakness, which ultimately brings us to the top of the world.  

IN THE LABYRINTH OF A JAPANESE GARDEN NO ONE CAN DENY YOU ANYTHING. EVEN PUTTING TOGETHER THINGS THAT DON’T FIT. ONLY YOU CAN DENY IT THROUGH YOUR PERCEPTUAL CONTRADICTION.

CHARACTERS

The Woman Bird: Tina Dobaj

Inner Voice: Ayana Workman

THE WOMAN BIRD

She is strong-willed and intelligent, with a natural gift to study and evolve. Broken at one point by a man. She becomes a servant, obsessed with making herself into someone else. She increasingly transforms into a VIRTUAL HER, that’s why she does not want anyone to know her. She is signified by different parts: Herself, the Bird, the Inner Voice that she talks to - at - with, a pair of high heel shoes, a dressy bag, a stack of cards, a dress, and the sound of space.

THE INNER VOICE

On the lookout to dominate and ready to snap back at her.  The voice is bird’s subconscious, and an answer to her ongoing battle to exist and coexist. It confronts her with the crude reality of her subservient personality.

THE SOUND

DRUM: hesitation, repetition, and unpredictable emotional transcendence.