SAMEN

CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHY
Davide Terlingo, Michael Klien
DESIGN
Rafal Kosakovski
PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael Durr

LAUNCH
8th January 2005
Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture opening celebration
Cork, Ireland

VISUALS

Michael Klien and Davide Terlingo have created a unique distributed performance for the streets of Cork in 2005. Daghdha Dance Company will distribute 8,500 stainless steel rings designed by the highly esteemed Polish designer, Rafal Kosakowski. The ring is a symbol of an expanded community; an invitation to actively engage with each other in an ever changing world. Anyone can become a performer simply by wearing an iris ring. Each Iris ring comes with a set of five simple, written instructions. Each instruction invites the wearer of a ring to show a physical or mental response whenever he or she meets someone wearing the same ring. Iris has a life of its own: rings can change owners, responses can be followed or developed into personal tasks.
Dispersed across the space and time of the city, Iris can never be fully grasped. We can only know what directly relates or happens to us, and gather the rest as traces left behind in a landscape of stories. Here, the choreographers' work is not centred on the creation of an opera, but upon the facilitating of a social dynamic. The work created, the human patterns of being and moving, become a choreographic work at once ephemeral and playful, the ring becoming the key to a world of invisible links.