Synopsis:
A stage room equipped with 45 stilts and two dance poles is defined frontally by 100 teddybears and by a monitor and a loudspeaker to each side. The two monitors show the room heads up from different perspectives. The spotlights are blinking constantly.
Two young women dressed in golden babydolls and woolen stockings enter the stage. They're followed by two technicians dressed in black. The technicians start up the sound and pick up the cameras placed behind the monitors.
To the arranged final broadcast of Swiss castingshow "Musicstar" the young women start a lenghty interpretation of excitement and tensity. In doing so, they directly address the spectators. Meanwhile the two technicians are scanning them with their cameras. The footage is invertedly transmitted by the monitors. The inverted images show details of costumes and bodies in bottom and top view.
After six minutes the Musicstar 2009 is born and celebratory music resounds. The performers are throwing their babydolls and stockings into the crowd and getting nearer to the dance poles. They are now wearing sporty underwear and plastic stilettos.
Abruptly the sound is changing to Carl Orff's O Fortuna. Equally suddenly the two performers are climbing the poles and start a veritable pole dance. The filmmakers get more explicit in their way of recording the dancers, they are getting closer and stand in between the spectators and the dancers, so that the crowd has a distorted view on the scenery. The dancers orient themselves towards the cameras and catch the crowd's eyes via monitor.
After one and a half minutes of O Fortuna the dancers are sliding to the floor and kneeling in an expectant demeanor. To the final fanfare the technicians are putting down their cameras, picking up the two disco helmets placed behind the monitors and cresting the dancers with it. While the technicias are presenting the dancers, the dancers are moving their heads slightly in a manner of bowing. Reflections are striking stage and spectators, the sound falls silent and the monitors show the helmets.
From and with:
Brigitte Daetwyler (music, technics, dramaturgy, camera)
Anet Hofer (camera)
Dancers:
anonymous
Music:
Musicstar by SF DRS / O Fortuna by Carl Orff