Becoming a machine?

Reviewing Iza Szostak's Digger Ballet (Center for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, premiere: 8.11.2015), Karolina Wycisk evokes the ideas of Oskar Schlemmer, patron of the Choreographic Machine project (within which the premiere was held) and describes how his views on dance and the actor's body in dance were translated into the concept and choreography of the ballet written for two digging machines. Wycisk describes how the dancers operating the machines used the space of the factory hall that served as a venue, and stresses their virtuosity in operating the diggers.