ADOM MODULATIONS

The word “ADOM” means red in Hebrew, which also echoes ADAM, the first man... In the duet “ADOM MODULATIONS” by Zufit Simon, two bodies strive to walk upright, stumble, stagger, have the fall into the bottomless pit before their eyes. Their movements are continued in each other's bodies; they support and move each other. A helping hand is therefore always also a physical relationship of dependency. This is how dance develops into desired and undesired relationships of dependency.

ADOM was initially a sketch that evolved from idea to idea. A specific quality of movement of the two bodies in relation to each other and to the floor crystallized. ADOM MODULATIONS is a revision of the original questions and at the same time allows me to build on them and develop them further.

Revised 2018. Music: Fredrik Olofsson.

Full-length video: https://vimeo.com/1045662589

Simon’s “Adom Modulations” is much more accessible, but no less fascinating. A choreography of creatures and signs, of graceful limbs seemingly heavy with sleep, in which the movements of two dancers effortlessly synchronise or their two bodies become entangled, head to head or knee to knee, until an unknown third arises: dark hieroglyphics or rare centipedes in a black-shrouded space. The floor is never left. In terms of evolutionary biology, this is the epoch before upright locomotion, the age of the amoeba, of fins and snakelike movements, of crawling sideways as an undetermined creature. The viewers see soft waves and hard-phrased sequences that emanate from obviously highly motorised stools, toes rammed into the ground or arms thrown upwards. But also rock-hard clothes pegs placed on edge and silent amazement at the sheer fact of existence per se. Again and again Simon and Alexander raise their heads and consider the situation they are in. Between creature and culture, so much fluid precision, witty seriousness and beautiful melancholy!

Munich Feuilleton, Sabine Leucht, 15 January 2019