Art, as French philosopher Jacques Derrida remarked, depends on how you frame it – a painting’s frame, for example, delimits what is seen. In her piece «Private Song» Alexandra Bachzetsis follows this reasoning and proposes a new «frame» through which the work may be perceptively approached. The goal is to question, emphasize or neutralize the relationship between the audience and the bodies moving on stage. To this end she draws from heterogeneous sources, confronting the voices and codified gestures of Greek Rebetiko with those of Hollywood style fight scenes, as well as visual portrayals of love and war. On a chessboard, solos, duos, trios and songs intertwine. The bodies, though drawn one to the others, end up misunderstanding or misinterpreting and are finally incapable of coming together - because what is acceptable or not also delimits the possibility for action within each given context. Through a phantasmic staging the scenic mechanisms of «Private Song» succeed in channelling both perception and affect and thus impacting the viewer’s perspective.