Persona

In 2016 artist and filmmaker Manon de Boer and choreographer and dancer Latifa Laâbissi began an ongoing dialogue, which brought out conversation as a working tool and a performative form. Persona is a cinematic look by de Boer at Écran Somnambule (2012), a performance by Laâbissi, which is in turn based on a short clip from Mary Wigman’s Witch’s Dance (1926), a major solo in the history of German expressionism and dance. The physical experience of the disruptive power of the masked figure from the 1920s is reinterpreted in extended temporality and transmitted in a circular camera movement. Trance is transformed into meditation.