Choreographer and visual artist Kris Verdonck is fascinated by the relationship between man and machine, and in I/II/III/IIII, he transforms the stage into a puppet show with living people. Four dancers hang like marionettes on a big machine and must choose between surrendering to that machine or searching for their independence. The images that I/II/III/IIII presents are confusing and ambiguous, reminding us of the white birds from Swan Lake, but also of animal carcasses being swept away, of floating angels, but also of crippling human lives.
A fascinating interchange between four dancers and a machine.