PHIL VON

"Deadline Now"
cd

Music by Phil Von

for Persona & Von Magnet

For more than a year Flore Magnet & Phil Von have been writing and directing the performance "Deadline Now" for & with the company Persona in Santa Maria da Feira near Porto.

A "7 Sois, 7 Luas" production for the Imaginarius festival.

"DEADLINE NOW" is about "TIME", a contemporary sad tale, the story of people existing in one of our modern metropolis during 36 hours. They walk, they run, they work, they phone, they step, they dream, they stumble, they loop, they bug

Yet we are witnessing the absurdity of their tasks, waiting for the appearance of signs of weaknesses, of tenderness, of love even of simple humanity.

Have you noticed lately how our perceptions of "time" have been accelerating ?

Have you felt that fear of not being properly connected ?

The necessity of "being available" at any moment

The urgency of everything or "the everything urgent" syndrom.

Have you experienced yet the anxiety of inactiveness ?

As if "not doing anything" would mean "not existing" anymore !

Nowadays we are being linked to the whole world in a matter of seconds but somehow we have never been so lonely.

To portray the ambiance of such a modern "time dictature", the music of Phil Von strikes as purely urban, electronic, cold and ruled by a strict tempo code, the most common and the most famous : 120 beats per minute.

This pulse is the master, the implacable reality of a metronomic heartbeat which all the actors follow throughout the performance The "Von Magnetic" choregraphic style will only appear as they stamp their feet "live" stubbornly Untill they find through exhaustion and despair the poetry, the freedom or the craziness towards a final exit to escape

Stretching "time" down to a universal wave of silence