late night faun is a solo and the first performance of a series that works on the effigy of the Faun. Also known as Pan, the faun was the Greek god of the wild, masculine fertility, and sexuality. Simultaneously sinister and prophetic, he frolicked with nymphs and protected the forest.

Mythical creatures arise from the desire to domesticate and disempower what a dominant culture finds threatening. They embody a variety of fears: the potential of chaos to overcome order, of irrationality to prevail over reason, the potential victory of the earthen wild over the encroaching civilizations of mankind. 

As a famous example of the canonization of a mythical creature into western ideology, the work reconstructs the ballet L'Après Midi d'un Faune by Nijinsky – as a point of entry to the re-appropriation and transformation of this sneaky goat-god. 

on faun reconstructs as a way of archaeology, seeing into how power has been built and held through mythologies. Re-creating by the movement of molding and becoming, a study in transformation and, when taken, the agency therein, a mash-up between magic, mythology, and how power moves through the beat of a beast.

2023

Performance and choreography: Camila Malenchini

Dramaturgy: Louise Trueheart

Sound design: Fjola Gautadóttir

Artistic support: Fjola Gautadóttir, Layton Lachman, Louise Trueheart, Sarah Parolin, Auro Orso

Made in the frame of 25 JAHRE - TANZNACHT BERLIN 2023