Disambiguation

Elisa Zuppini

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Disambiguation probes the libidinal drive and the sensorial overload linked to the diversified milieus of nocturnal life in its most alluring, enigmatic, and shadowed dimensions.

In Disambiguation choreographer and dancer Elisa Zuppini crafts a system where human perception converges with the presence of other-than-human agencies. The fifteen dancers form a pulsing structure in which they extend toward and withdraw from the audience's perceptual field. Like subterranean waves a hybrid circuit of sensation is generated.

The dancers explore an insomniac framework, particularly that of 'post-clubbing' in which the stimulating effects and aftereffects of hedonistic nocturnal life are examined. They perform through a dissociative state of depersonalization, allowing them to resource from something other than conditioned subjectivity. Instead, they take charge of wandering intensities that disperse, giving rise to erratic formations across perceptual spectrums. By inhabiting viscous liminal spaces, the performers explore multiple sensibilities, navigating within a condition of ceaseless transition, where boundaries dissolve and where transformation occurs, and where ambiguity itself sculpts tangible states.

Accompanied by deconstructed melodies and industrial rhythms, a haunting gothic tendency emerges. Navigating a world erratically attempting to understand itself, Disambiguation reflects on collective agency and how this distributed cognition gives rise to a dramaturgy of affect.

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“The group fans out and trickles, like an organism that holds itself together almost unconsciously. In humanistic or existential terms, you could call Disambiguation a painting of resignation. The choreographer refrains from compensating for the emptiness or lack of orientation (future) with the centripetal forces of old bourgeois theatre and the fiction of film and literature: intention, meaning, appeal, expression – it all seems passé in Disambiguation." - Theaterkrant (keuze van de criticus)

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Team

concept and choreography Elisa Zuppini creation in collaboration with the performers Hannah Badura, Rowan van den Boomen, Tim Brügger, Harvey Burke-Hamilton, Lola Dupriez, Mandisa Gramelsberger, Katrina Gusca, Jieon Ko, Ana Longo Nsame, Maxine van Lishoet, Clémence Masakidi, Esteban Alejandro Obregon Moriano, Envel Serazin, Jentel Schiettekatte, Ditte Toppet sound composition Fabian Reichle, featuring original tracks by Lotic and BFRND dramaturgy Bruno Listopad costumes Elisa Zuppini and Bruno Listopad lighting design Martijn Smolders technic Martin Kaffarnik graphic design poster Bruno Listopad, Tea Teearu developed with the financial support of AFK (Amsterdam Funds for the Arts) co-produced by Expanded Contemporary Dance and WhyNot Festival research presentation platforms Amsterdam University of the Arts (June 2024), FLAM Festival with Museumnacht (November 2024, Amsterdam), Jakoozi (May 2025, Amsterdam)