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PETER, (the plague)

Norbergfestival (SE) — July 2018

PETER, (the plague) is a solo performance that operates as a dance, an anarchy, a contagion, and a brand. Unfolding as a relentless, stream-of-consciousness solo, the work uses choreographic repetition and physical overload to question how the self is constructed, commodified, and shared in live presence.

Conceptual Framework

The work positions the dancing body inside an infinitely complexifying rhizome. As the performance accelerates, the boundary between performer, brand, and spectator blurs—attending to the audience’s attention through forced physical and rhythmics contagions.

In PETER, (the plague), identity becomes an unstable list of conditions: a person, a match, a fiend, a friend, a biography, a sickness, a promise, a practice, a problem, a position, a parameter, a prediction, a pest, a pretense, a plan…

Navigating the absurdities of the self, the solo demands a radical ethics of intersubjective presence: asking what remains of the individual when movement shifts relentlessly and identity is treated as infectious artistic material.

Performance Context & Specifications

• Format: Solo dance performance / Site-responsive work
• First Performed: Norbergfestival, Sweden (July 2018)
• Choreography & Performance: Peter Mills
• Key Themes: Expanded choreography, rhizomatic movement, intersubjectivity, performance as contagion, identity as brand.
• Supported by: Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet) and Koreografiska Konstitutet.

Archival Notes & Inquiries

Documentation, video archives, and score notes for PETER, (the plague) are available upon request for research, curatorial study, or historical programming.

Contact: www.stillpeter.com

PETER, (the plague), norbergfestival (SE) July 2018

Program notes:

PETER, (the plague) is a dance, an anarchy, a bodies, a work, a person, a brand, a match, a fiend, a friend, a performance, an art, a ist, a complex arrangement of movements, a choreography, a choreographer, a biography, a list, a history, a contagion, a memory, a thought, a lifestyle, a choice, a miracle, a child, a verse, a sickness, an announcement, an archive, a protest, alive, another, a promise, practice, problem, performance, place, position, parameter, prediction, pest, pretense, plan, pipe, pop, pfff…

PETER, the plague, attends to your attention, as forced contagions, an artistic material besieges your minds self processing construction of you. Form shifts in a relentlessly expansive bewildering stream of consciousness. As the dancing body attempts to exist in its unbelievable complexifying rhizome, for a infinitely demanding ethics of the intersubjective self.

Choreography and Performance: Peter Mills
Supported by Kulturrådet and koreografiska konstitutet