Quarantine and Isolation in the Literature
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the premieres of two choreographic video performances took place in the Georgian virtual space. One was Marijan’s Room, which told the story of one of the first female Georgian poets, Marijan (Mariam Tkemaladze-Aleksidze). The other, Lucia’s Room, was about Lucia Joyce, daughter of great Irish writer James Joyce.
No doubt, the title of the video performances would remind you of A Room of One’s Own, an essay by Virginia Woolf, but contemporary Georgian Artist Mariam Aleksidze, through the synthesis of words, poetry, music and movement, made the works by Marijan and Joyce speak the language of contemporary choreography from her own room.