General rehearsal for a nuclear variety show; a genetically modified musical; a seductive choreography with the worst intentions. OKOKOK wants to conquer the record of stared stares, break the hardest of hearts, compete with itself and with every other choreography ever seen and danced before.
In this new work created for ŻfinMalta, Marco D’Agostin extends his research around entertainment as a specific form of relationship between performer and spectator (with Everything is ok, which toured Europe for over 6 years, and Best Regards, his recent tribute show to Nigel Charnock/DV8). OKOKOK tests the possibility of an irresistible, unabashedly frontal, hyper-citationist choreography, continually striving to tear itself and the dancers who perform it apart, to reveal the deafening silence in which we all move when we try to entertain someone.

OKOKOK is the answer to Paolo Mangiola, artistic director of ŻfinMalta National Dance Company, who invited Marco D'Agostin to create a short work for the company. The performance is co-produced with Associazione Culturale VAN and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Valletta.

After a period of artistic residency, started on January 9, the premiere will be within the “ŻfinDays”, an annual programme of works by choreographers who are currently in the spotlight on the international dance stage.
OKOKOK is staged on February 17 and on February 24 at the Valletta Campus Theatre (7:30pm).
On January 28, open rehearsal at the ŻfinMalta Studios (2:30pm).

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