"Agon" is a choreo-therapeutic mockumentary inspired by the experience of combining professional life and motherhood.
Agon [Greek. Agṓn ‚conflict’, ‘fight’] is a term used by the ancient Greeks for a situation in which opponents disputed in order to show their superiority or - alternatively - the superiority of their arguments. The term was also used for a type of festival held in order to honour a god or a hero.
Dominika Knapik enters the stage to talk about jobs “for a lifetime”: that of an artist and of a mother. At the same time she fights with her own biography - a workaholic choreographer struggling with eternal sense of guilt that a busy mother feels in relation to her child. Her companion in this fight is an acute observer: Pythia, the choreo therapist. Knapik works with highly personal material, which is detonated by the self-ridicule form of a mockumentary (fake documentary). It results in distanced, embedded narrative mirroring the performativity of representation. As a result, the audience moves ahead into the artist’s future, being able to go back in her biography at the same time. The performance is a critical, but humorous study of the reality of having an (artistic) career and combining it with motherhood. Someone is producing me in a stomach. The product starts working and produces itself. The product matures and emerges. It is being produced one way or the other. After some time, the product produces a new product in the belly.
Someone is producing me in a stomach.
The product starts working and produces itself.
The product matures and emerges.
It is being produced one way or the other.
After some time, the product produces a new product in the belly.
Fot. Klaudyna Schubert
