SIMASIMETRIC
Collaboration with Vienna State Ballet 700 x 700 cm Paper Installation with Natural Pigment
Istanbul 2014 Choreography: Alexis Forabosco and Casanova Sorolla
Music: Wien mal Blut, Carlos Pino
Dancers: Maria Yakovleva, Richard Szabo, Reina Sawai, Greig Matthews, Gala Javanović, Alexis Forabosco
The dancer Alexis Forabosco already tested the very first steps in the Signapura series with
Casanova Sorolla. In Simasimetric, for the first time, the artist was conceptually involved in the
development of Foraboscoʼs choreography. The work, which was publicly performed on
behalf of Wien Tourismus in Istanbul and subsequently accessible as an installation, was
created in collaboration with the Vienna State Ballet and was performed in Bebek Park. The
diagram shows the sequence of steps and traces of a choreography that was realized with
the help of a ballet bar, which was carried and moved by the dancers in a clockwise direction,
trying to create exact symmetries—an impossible task. To the specially composed music
by Carlos Pino Wien mal Blut—referencing Wiener Blut—are recurring rotating forms in
white write themselves on the black coal pigment of the 60 m. large paper carrier, like a
gyroscope of time, which sets again and again.
