Epiphany - Revelation
[Director.Choreographer.][Live performance & video][2021]
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[choregraphy.]
[performers.]
[music.]
[light design.]
[video.]
[costumes.]
[scenography.]
Natia Chikvaidze
Natia Bunturi, Levan Gelbakhiani, Alexander Gadelia, Jonathan Rousselle, Natia Chikvaidze
Anushka Chkheidze (live set)
HITORI (Omar Gogichaishvili)
Saba Shengelia
Levau Shvelidze
Natia Chikvaidze
“The artist is a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life”. ( James Joyce)
Epiphany – Revelation emerged during the isolation and uncertainty of the COVID-19 period, when bodies were separated, touch was restricted, and the invisible worlds of emotion, memory, and psyche became amplified. The work responds to that time: the heightened sensitivity, the need for connection, the abrupt realizations that arrived like quiet lightning inside stillness.
The performance begins from the relationships between bodies on stage — a constellation of presences sensing, negotiating, resisting, and surrendering. Movements shift from microscopic to monumental, reflecting the landscapes of an inner world where fragility and intensity coexist. A system of rules forms and dissolves, at once strict and organic, like a living organism learning itself.
At the heart of the piece is the notion of the epiphany — a sudden inner illumination. Sometimes it demands action. Sometimes it invites stillness. Sometimes the transformation is simply to live differently: moment by moment, breath by breath.
Epiphany – Revelation premiered within the 6th edition of the Contemporary Dance & Experimental Art Festival, Tbilisi.
Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture & Sports of Georgia; Creative Georgia; Tbilisi City Hall; TMU – Trust for Mutual Understanding; and Summa Artium.