Harsh noise/dance performance /2024
40 min
Natia Chikvaidze (Concept, Choreography), Nino Dava (Sound, Tech support), Kompetis Universadis (Costume Design)
The performance examines the tension between traditional expectations placed on women in Georgia, entrenched societal norms, and the possibility of alternative identities.
Through movement that is deliberately limited, refined, and restrained, the choreography reflects how women navigate life within a patriarchal framework while seeking new modes of existence. The work engages directly with the current political climate, addressing struggles for freedom, identity, gender equality, and acts of resistance.
The “Anagonism of desire” is centered on a metal costume - both a tangible object and a metaphor for internal states. It shapes the dancer’s motion, producing sound and resistance, and transforms into a conduit for emotion. The costume is sourse of the saund which evolves through distorted amplification of the metal dressm movement of the dancer, her communication with the floor and placing around sound system.
In this way, the body, costume, and sound merge into a single living instrument, embodying the interplay between physicality, constraint, and the urgent drive toward liberation.
The first performance took place at Bassiani club, in frames of Queer Fest Tbilisi under the name of “Antagonism of Desire” (2024); Leter on on “In the mountains festival” - Berlin, Acud Mach Neu, (2024); Mutant radio - Plazm take over (2025).
The video documentation: Bassiani club (2024)
(c) Omer Huja
Natia Chikvaidze / Bassiani Club/ 2024
(C) Sopio Nachkhebia
(C) Sopio Nachkhebia