"La Libertà!" Live Performance @ W139, Amsterdam

The newest work by Inga Cholmogorova  - "La Libertà!" was performed at the W139 Gallery in Amsterdam, May 19th.

Concept & performamce:  Inga Cholmogorova

Choreography couch: Stefano Taiuti

Text:  Gina Hillberg

Photography: Masha Ru 

"La Libertà!" is a 4.33 min  solo butoh dance piece performed live to the soprano aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" from the baroque opera (Rinaldo by George Frederic Handel), where the artist mixes and fuses eastern and western traditions and styles to underline the individual freedom of expression laying beneath though movement and gesture.

“It’s a very personal journey”, - says Inga asked to described the origin of this piece and adds that “body never lies, it’s a matter to be able to dive deep enough, so there is a chance to come out on the other shore, translating the experience into a universal language through movement, which can touch and inspire other people”.

Human condition is a main subject matter of Inga’s performances, where she explores the concept of ego and the self, addressing the higher potential of human being further investigating the artificial separation between art and life.. Issues of culture, perception, gender, sexuality and the roles we play daily are reoccurring themes throughout her works.

"La Libertà!" is a piece questioning what does it mean and takes to be an artist and the feminine being in the world today predominantly operating through egoic structures driven by fear of loss and the desire for power adopted by men and women alike.

Inga advocates L.L.L. which stands for a new feminine way of being in the world, where self Liberation and compassionate Love to all the beings are two greatest values in life, emphasizing the strength through being vulnerable.

As Maria Rilke puts it "... This humanity of woman, borne its full time in suffering and humiliation, will come to light when she will have stripped off the conventions of mere femininity in the mutations of her outward status, and those men who do not yet feel it approaching today will be surprised and struck by it. Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself, something that makes one think, not of any complement and limit, but only of life and existence: the feminine human being."

                           

                      
                                    

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