Yugo Yoga

Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse
visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga,
archived physical exercises, poses from figurative revolutionary sculptures,
political slogans and messages of self-improvement. The performance revisits
European communist cultural heritage whilst raising issues of collectivism, social
happiness and collective memory in contemporary society. Referencing modernist
aesthetics of Constructivist and Futurist
performance, the concept of “the body as moving sculpture” and New Age
practices, Yugo Yoga communicates
primarily through an act of embodiment – directly to and through the body. During the process, the boundaries between the spectator
& performers blur into a “new collective body”. The past &
present collide, an atmosphere of celebration is
evoked and a spirit of optimism and communal activism aroused.

Concept &
Direction: Lara Ritosa Roberts Performed by: Klaudia Wittman, Madie McGowan, Lara Ritosa Roberts.

Organisation:
City of Women.
Supported
by: EU Culture.

Free
entry.