TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2010 - Performances
03.08.2010, Introductory Lecture, Tanztendenz, 7 p.m., entrance free of charge!
04.08.2010, Janez Janša "Fake it!", Muffathalle, 20.30 Uhr
05.08.2010, Janez Janša "Fake it!", Muffathalle, 20.30 Uhr
06.08.2010, Antonia Baehr "Lachen", i-camp, 20.30 Uhr
07.08.2010, Andrei Andrianov & Oleg Soulimenko "Made in Russia", Muffathalle, 20.30 Uhr
08.08.2010, Open Stage & Get Together, Muffathalle, 18.00-20.00 Uhr, Eintritt frei!
09.08.2010, Palle Granhøj "W [doubleyou] – UNDERTOW" (Installation), i-camp, 18.30, 20.30, 21.30 Uhr
10.08.2010, Palle Granhøj "W [doubleyou] – UNDERTOW" (Installation), i-camp, 18.30, 20.30, 21.30 Uhr
11.08.2010, Palle Granhøj "W [doubleyou] – UNDERTOW"(Installation), i-camp, 18.30, 20.30, 21.30 Uhr
11.08.2010, Jefta van Dinther & Mette Ingvartsen, IT'S IN THE AIR, Muffathalle, 20.30 Uhr
13.08.2010, Ivana Müller, "Working Titles", Muffathalle, 20.30 Uhr
14.08.2010, Final Lecture Demonstration + Abschlussparty, Muffathalle, 20.30 Uhr, Eintritt frei!
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Janez Janša
Fake it! Foto: Nada Zgank
August 4 & 5, 2010, Janez Janša "Fake it!"
Muffathalle, 8.30 pm
The starting point of this production are contemporary dance productions that Slovenia never saw and probably never will see – if not because of the economic facts defining the programming in houses with international stage programs and at festivals of performing arts, then because of the sheer fact of the biological transience of their creators. Just as counterfeit products can be found on the black market, on the contemporary dance market we intend to launch counterfeits of works by several key choreographers from the second half of the 20th century. This project also directly reflects one of the prevailing interpretations of Slovene national culture, i.e. the theory of lagging behind.
Janez Janša studied sociology, theatre directing and performance theory. He currently numbers among Slovenia’s best-known artists. In addition to collaborations with choreographers such as Meg Stuart and Erna Omarsdottir, he also works as a writer, lectures at several universities, and creates own pieces. Hs productions critically explore sociopolitical issues and combine elements from the performing, visual and multimedia arts.
directed by: Janez Janša
creators-performers: Leja Jurišić, Jurij KOnjar, Manca Krnel, Teja Reba, Dejan Srhoj
direction assistant: Samo Gosarič
lighting design: Miran Šušteršič
technical director: Borut Canjko
executive producer: Nataša Zavolovšek
production: Zavod Exoodos
co-production: Maska Ljubljana
Antonia Baehr
Foto: Marc Domage
August 6, 2010, Antonia Baehr: „Lachen“ (2008)
i-camp, 20.30 pm
Antonia Baehr likes to laugh, and she laughs often and generously, so it was not surprising that she asked her friends to give her “laughter scores” as birthday presents, from which she created a composition that combines the most widely different types of laughs to produce an entertaining study about laughing per se. Divorced from causes such as humor or comical situations, Baehr explores laughter as an autonomous form of expression in its own right: the sound and shape, the music, choreography and rhythm of laughter. The resulting performance, which is as intelligent as it is witty, proves that laughter is indeed contagious …
Antonia Baehr was born in Berlin in 1970. She is a choreographer, performer and producer. After having studied film and media arts at Berlin University of the Arts, she completed her master’s degree in performance directing with Lin Hixson in Chicago and worked with William Wheeler. She then returned to Berlin, where she has lived since 2000. Her pieces are often created in collaboration with other artists, using a game structure in which each person switches roles and is alternately director and performer. Her productions mainly deal with the live character of the theatre and with gender identities.
Based on scores by: Naima Akkar, Lindy Annis, Bettina von Arnim, Antonia Baehr, Ulrich Baehr, Frieder Butzmann, Valérie Castan, Manuel Coursin, Nicole Dembélé, Nathan Fuhr, Sylvie Garot, Frédéric Gies, Christian Kesten, Heather Kravas, Antonija Livingstone, Andrea Neumann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Spengler, Steffi Weismann, William Wheeler, Henry Wilt, a.o..
Credits:
concept, interpretation, composition and choreography: Antonia Baehr
artistic collaboration and choreography: Valérie Castan
dramaturgy: Lindy Annis
sound creation and composition: Manuel Coursin
sound regie: Samuel Pajand
light creation: Sylvie Garot
light regie: Rima Ben Brahim, Raphaël Vincent
administration: Ulrike Melzwig
production: make up productions
co-production: Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Les Subsistances, Lyon
Supported by the cultural administration of Berlin and Ausland, Berlin.
Diese Veranstaltung wird ermöglicht durch das Nationale Performance Netz im Rahmen der Gastspielförderung Tanz aus Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien sowie der Kultur- und Kunstministerien der Länder.
Andrianov & Soulimenko
Foto: Dieter Hartwig
August 7, 2010, Andrei Andrianov & Oleg Soulimenko: „Made in Russia“
Muffathalle, 8.30 pm
“Made in Russia” takes its audience on a journey through the often cliché-fraught landscape of Russia’s soul and culture. Fictional and real elements are skillfully mixed: while Adrianov claims to be the illegitimate son of the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Soulimenko pretends to be a retired ballet dancer and the former dance partner of prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The two performers use songs, anecdotes and dance to reflect not only their own biographies, but also a bit of cultural history – an intelligent, entertaining evening all about Eastern and Western cultural clichés.
Andrei Andrianov is as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. He began his stage career with modern dance and pantomime in Moscow, and afterwards studied contact improvisation, release technique and performance art in Europe. He collaborated with the performance group Lux Flux and created his first piece together with Oleg Soulimenko in 1993. Oleg Soulimenko is a Russian performer and choreographer who currently lives in Vienna. After having completed an engineering degree in Moscow, he decided to become a dancer. He has worked with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Meg Stuart and others. His performances have been shown in Europe, the USA, Canada and Israel.
“The performance can hardly be topped in wit and ingenuity and masterly plays with clichés and
prejudices. A direct hit!” (Helene Kurz, Wiener Zeitung, April 25, 2009)
Performance in Russian and English with English subtitles.
Credits
Concept, direction, performance: Andrei Andrianov, Oleg Soulimenko
Dramaturgy: Judith Helmer
Artistic advice: Robert Steijn
Translation: Martin Jandl
Stage set and costume: Anke Philipp
Light design: Bartek Kubiak
Video editing and photography: Elena Tikhonova
Video appearance: Dasha Andrianova and Alevtina Golubeva
Production management: Nicole Schuchardt
A co-production by: Oleg Soulimenko/Vienna Magic, brut Wien, artblau-Tanzwerkstatt
Brunswick, Szene Salzburg.
In collaboration with Dance Agency, TsEkh, Moscow, and Sophiensaele Berlin.
Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and
Culture, the State of Lower Saxony, and Kultur Kontakt Austria.
Guest performane kindly supported by: österreichisches Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur.
Open Stage & Get Together
August 8, 2010, 6.00 - 8.00 pm, Muffathalle
(Inter)national choreographers and performance artists give insights into their current artistic works.
Open Get Together in the beer garden of Muffatwerk after the show.
…watch artistic bits and pieces, learn more about production and rehearsal conditions, meet artists, discuss what you have seen and be inspired!
All artists are kindly invited to participate: Show parts of your work, give feedback, learn more about the work of others…
If you want to participate please send an e-mail including:
* description (max. 1 page including number of participants, sound technique)
* biography
* contact details (name, address, phone, e-mail, name of all participants)
until July 26 to pr@jointadventures.net.
We will contact you for further details concerning the course of the event. Please notice that we can not offer any technical equipment except of sound.
ENTRANCE FREE OF CHARGE!
Palle Granhøj
Foto: Per Victor
August 9-11, Palle Granhøj "W[doubleyou] – UNDERTOW“ (Installation)
i-camp, 6.30, 8.30, 9.30 pm
In his dance installation “W[doubleyou] – UNDERTOW,” Palle Granhøj literally inverts ordinary perceptual habits. Lying on their backs beneath a glass floor, the spectators view the installation from below. The bodies and body parts of the performers flow away above the heads of their observers, seemingly melting to become new movement patterns in the twilit environment. This creates bizarre and fantastic body pictures which combine with the tranquil sounds of a viola and a solo voice to produce a sensually poetic experience. “W[doubleyou] – UNDERTOW” is an installation between the media of dance and visual arts. It transports its audiences into a magical space and offers – alongside a purely aesthetic pleasure – ample room for one’s own images and thoughts.
Palle Granhøj was born in Denmark and has worked as a professional dancer for many years. He choreographed his first piece in 1990, and he founded the Granhøj Dans Company, which he continues to lead as artistic director. He developed the “obstruction technique,” which became his primary artistic method. It works by restricting the original movement in order to create a new and alternative expression. Besides his profoundly human mode of operation, Palle Granhøj’s pieces are distinguished by a unique and often poetic combination of dance, song and music. Having toured in more than thirty countries, Granhøj Dans is well known throughout Europe and beyond.
Created in close co-operation with the dancers: Maxime-Jo Bech McGosh, Carina Raffel and Kristoffer Andrup Pedersen. Music: Laila Skovmand and Robert Karlsson
Co-producers: Theaterlabor, Germany and Les Brigittines Festival, Belgium.
Granhøj Dans is supported by the City of Aarhus and the Danish Arts Council.
Guest performance kindly supported by the Danish Arts Council.
van Dinther & Ingvartsen
Foto: Peter Lenaerts
August, 11, 2010, Jefta van Dinther & Mette Ingvartsen, IT’S IN THE AIR
Muffathalle, 8.30 pm
Assisted by two trampolines, the performers Jefta van Dinther and Mette Ingvartsen rise to airy heights in “IT’S IN THE AIR.” The performance investigates the (in)visible forces which allow a leaping body to float almost weightlessly through the air or interrupt a natural fall that had been triggered by gravity. The energetic dynamism of the two dancers is gradually transferred to the audience too. Though physically motionless, the spectators share the kinesthetic experience of the sights they see. The result is a study of the human body in which each person can ask – and find his or her own personal answer – to the question: What does movement really trigger in the body?
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. She studied in Amsterdam and Brussels´, and graduated from the P.A.R.T.S performing arts school in 2004. She has created her own pieces since 2002, most recently performing “evaporated landscapes” in Munich. Together with Jefta van Dinther, Bojana Cvejic, Sandra Iche and Jan Ritsema, she cofounded the COCOs collective. The choreographer and dancer Jefta van Dinther graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2003. He lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. In March 2010 he premiered „Kneeding“ in Amsterdam.
Credits:
Choreography and Performance: Jefta van Dinther and Mette Ingvartsen
Light design and set: Minna Tiikkainen
Sound Design: Peter Lenaerts
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejic
Production Management: Kerstin Schroth
Technique: Oded Huberman
Co-production: PACT Zollverein (Essen), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kaaitheater (Brussels).
Funded by: Haupstadtkulturfonds (Berlin, Germany) and Kunstradet, Danish Arts Council (Denmark).
Supported by: Eurotramp (Germany), Les Brigittines (Brussels), Charleroi/Danses, Centre
Chorégraphique de la Communauté Francaise de Belgique (Brussels), Ballhaus Naunynstraße
(Berlin) and sommer.bar 2007 a project of Tanz im August (Berlin).
A production of Mette Ingvartsen/Great Investment and Jefta van Dinther/Sure Basic
www.aisikl.net/mette
Diese Veranstaltung wird ermöglicht durch das Nationale Performance Netz im Rahmen der Gastspielförderung Tanz aus Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien sowie der Kultur- und Kunstministerien der Länder.
Ivana Müller
Foto: Barbara Palffy
August 13, 2010, Ivana Müller „Working Titles“
Muffathalle, 8.30 pm
Ivana Müller’s “Working Titles” invites its audience to explore the future of our information society. Alongside the actors, life-sized puppets function as performers on stage, above which written captions narrate the stories of these colourful headless beings and raise a provocative question: To what degree do people rely on words to define themselves? Or is it rather the dance which gives meaning to the people and things here? “Working Titles” is a whirling kaleidoscope of thoughts, images and fictions that are alternately touching, startling and amusing.
Croatian-born artist Ivana Müller works as choreographer and lecturer in the areas of theatre and fine arts. Some of the recurring subjects in Müller's work are the body and its representation, as well as the relationship between performer and spectator. She creates installations, video lectures, and dance and theatre performances and also teaches at several dance institutes. She was awarded the Impulse Festival Prize in 2007 and invited to the Theatertreffen in Berlin in 2008. Her piece “While We Were Holding It Together” won a prize from the Goethe Institute.
Credits
With Bill Aitchison, Katja Dreyer, Karen Røise Kielland, Anne Lenglet and Adam, Eva, João, Tina, Tom,
Vicky, Zoé
Direction, choreography Ivana Müller
Concept Ivana Müller and Bill Aitchison
Text Ivana Müller and performers
Lighting design/technique Martin Kaffarnik
Sound design Viljam Nybacka
Production assistant Emmanuel Chifolleau
Production/management Gerco de Vroeg
Many thanks to Albane Aubry, Nils De Coster, Geert Vaes.
production I'M'COMPANY coproduction Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg, NL), brut - Koproduktionshaus Wien (AT)
support Netherlands Fund for Performing Arts+ (NL), Parc de la Villette, Paris (F), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris (F), Theater Frascati, Amsterdam (NL).
Lecture Demonstrations
Introductory Lecture Demonstration
August 3, 2010, 7.00 p.m. Tanztendenz
As an introduction to TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA, a lecture demonstration will take place before the official start on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 7.00 p.m. in Tanztendenz. Everybody who is interested in dancing is welcome! The workshop’s instructors will introduce themselves and introduce the contents of their classes and the focal points of their work. They will explain their techniques and the goals of their teaching, and will illustrate these with brief demonstrations of movement sequences.
Final Lecture Performance
August 14, 2010, 8.30 p.m. Muffathalle
To conclude TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA, results from the workshop will be shown by participants and their instructors on August 14 (Sat), 2010 in the Muffathalle at 8.30 p.m.. Each class will show its work only if its participants are willing to do so and the work process during the course won’t be disturbed preparing for this showing.
After the final lecture performance, TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA’s culminating party will take place at Muffatwerk. It will be a very special dance event that nobody should miss!
A suggestion for people coming to Munich expressly for the workshop: Don’t leave before Sunday!
Everybody is cordially invited to the lecture demonstrations! Also those who did not participate in a workshop. Entrance is free of charge! Limited number of seats: tickets (1 per person) are available from 8 p.m. at the evening box office in the Muffathalle.