Apatheia is a trio dance piece that deals with the battle that is happening inside us when ego, super-ego and the id are coming in a collision.
A woman is introducing herself showing us her urge to control the people around her through her peculiar personality. Two men are representing a manipulative relationship that could refer to the one of father and son. Slowly these two worlds merge and become one. The game in between solitude and companionship, sharing and self indulgence is just now starting.
The kind of relationships that are introduced together with the state of being of the soloist are underling the odd but yet honest and introspective psychological space that the performers are in. They just exchange partners in three different duets without any heartbreaking goodbyes. In fact they deliver their own mach to the next person when they are through with him. It’s not only that in the end that one of them will decide by himself to move on to the next identical relationship by her own will.
No one is getting in the way of the others’ wills and instincts. They are there in order just to accompany each other throughout their actions and needs. The ‘I’ is much stronger than the ‘WE’ but is more than clear that the ‘WE’ is necessary so as to define the ‘I’ and hold it through its being and survival.
Water out of melting ice comes as an external element in order to enlighten how these three individuals react so differently even though they are all in the same psychological space that is mentioned above; one becomes active and explorative; one becomes completely passive and accepting; the third one though passive, he seems to experience the most this new situation and rise again on his own feet when he is ready.
In the end the control game stands out clear and stark; the relationship of two is finally appearing deeply sharing, both individuals seem to finally honestly give up themselves to each other in a fully exposed state of being, naked from all covers. But is it true? Or do all of us appear to do the same with each and every partner that we engage with?
