Concepted by Jeremy Wade DrawnOnward is a collaboration with the choreographer Juli Reinartz, musician and co-performer Marc Lohr, writer John-Erik Jordan, costume designer Grzegorz Matlag and dramaturge Maximilian Haas. Or according to the acceleration from the leaflet: DrawnOnward is a…
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This lecture entitled Dance and Finance—Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics by Randy Martin had been given at the 9th October 2013 at EMPAC in Troy, NY. It has been a commissioned talk, in which New York University professor Randy Martin…
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Affirmatively watching a dance piece will affect your mirror neurons subconsciously, but there are works which obviously address an even deeper level than seeing motion sequences. Pieces like Kat Valastur’s Oh! Deep sea-corpus III, where a stroboscopic effect evoked through…
Isabelle Schad’s ‘Collective Jumps’ is an ambitious dance piece offering refreshingly unexpected views. But after its premiere last November I was hesitant to write about it as I could not come to terms with some ambiguous impressions gained. Parts of…
Certainly for everyone with interest in performance art ‘The man walking down the side of a building’ was an early subject of study. And who would have not known Mangolte’s iconic image of ‘Roof Piece’, which seemed to capture the…
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The future is flat, but we will be singing. All what is left for our visual and haptic sensations is the surface. Don’t tell me you still think 3D and virtual reality has depth. In fact it is as plane…
“Keep It Real is shameless and straightforwardly queer. A post-feminist influenza, highly contagious that can cause enjoyment. The protagonist cyborg-bitches tease the thin border between fiction and reality, and their bitch magic goes overboard contaminating everything around them. Zombies and…
The above line references the two titles the Mind is a Muscle and feelings are facts, which belong to works and theoretical insights of one of the most outstanding artists working in what it means to have, move, and be…
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In the flickers of light which flash into the darkness of the theater space six dancers slowly become recognizable. Standing in a certain distance to each other they form a half circle at the far end of the flat stage…
CocoonDance ‘Pieces of Me’ dissolves the fixed stage as well as linear narration. Concepts like these certainly attract my attention, nevertheless I am also aware that such an experiment might not necessarily lead to an immersing experience of now here,…
The titel Tauberbach of one of the latest pieces of Les Ballets C de la B and Alain Platel, if translatable at all might be read as deafbach, which includes this misspelling of putting two words (deaf +Bach) together, which…
The entrance piece to the recent conference ‘Tanz über Gräben’ at the Radialsystem V was for me certainly L. Chétouane’s choreography of ‘Sacré Sacre du Printemps’ and its re-staging at the HAU in this context. It was now shown in…
In Meg Stuart’s citing of herself: “often I say to my dancers: Your body is not yours.”2 (link) lingers a resonance quite close to Spinoza’s ”what the body can do” – “the body itself, merely from the laws of its…
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