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Weekend 1
Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion (UK):
Both Sitting Duet
March 4, 5, and 6, 2005
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm
Admission $12
Winner of a 2004 New York Dance and Performance 'Bessie' Award
Both Sitting Duet is a rigorous and sharply funny
performance for two sitting men, whose carefully placed hands and
lightning gestures become a virtual music. Made and performed by
choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion, the
piece opened in Brussels in 2002 and has since been invited to 17
countries around the world.
Jonathan Burrows is one of Britain's most highly
regarded choreographers. His work is a meticulous study of dance
and the body. The rigor and perfectionism he achieves is clearly
influenced by his classical training, although his work bears no
real resemblance to ballet.
Matteo Fargion was born in Italy, studied at the
University of Natal in South Africa, and has since written music
for many of Burrows’ pieces.
“I emerged from Both Sitting Duet in
a veritable glow, my world expanded, its walls tumbling down…
It's not every day one sees dancers working with a printed score
onstage. But then, it's not every day one sees a choreography as
rigorous and complex as Both Sitting Duet.” - danceinsider.com
“Seated, the two men develop… a closely-woven
composition of movements of the fingers, hands and arms, the elements
of which maintain, by their very harsh minimalism, a seemingly endless
variety of possibilities of execution and combination.” -
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“It was certainly one of the funniest and most
ingenious dances seen in New York in a long time.” - The New
York Times
“One of the most enchanting things I've ever
seen… a real enquiry into the half forgotten eloquence of
hands and body nuances.” - The Daily Telegraph (UK)
Weekend 2
Sabina Holzer & Boris Hauf (Austria/UK):
dreamcracker
March 11, 12, and 13, 2005
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm
Admission $12
This performance was created in response to the writings
of Kathy Acker. The condition of "waking up", remembering
dreams through physical sensations rather than images, and discovering
a state of slipping, of non-fixed identity, where words shift and
create unforeseen combinations, were two approaches toward ideas
of "absence", "disentanglement" and "infringement"
found in Acker’s texts. The choreographic and musical elements
are rearranged for each performance and form a flexible structure.
dreamcracker: a growing body or: perpetual incompleteness or: a
love song. dreamcracker has previously toured to Berlin, Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem, and Vienna.
Sabina Holzer studied contemporary dance at the School
for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She works primarily in collaborative
settings, and her work has been presented at various international
festivals. She has organized and participated in interdisciplinary
research, site specific and performance projects throughout Europe
and offers teaching and training in various contexts.
Boris Hauf is the founder of the music group efzeg.
His concerts and tours have taken him to Europe, North Africa, Latin
America and the USA. He has over 20 releases on CD, vinyl, DVD and
video, and has taught workshops and lectures (including The School
of The Art Institute of Chicago). He has been commissioned to produce
compositions for festivals, radio, TV, theater, dance and performance.
“The public is invited to spin their own dreams
in this very fine work.” - der Standard
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Weekend 3
Anne Juren & Alice Chauchat (Austria/France): J'aime
March 18, 19, and 20, 2005
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm
Admission $12
J'aime explores the joy inherent in dancing, being
observed while dancing, and observing dance. This high-energy dance
performance to techno music by DJ Assault of Detroit, creates an
experience of shared sensuality. Juren and Chauchat move easily
and precisely, transforming boisterous dance into a choreography
governed by passionate discipline. Their performance not only results
in a model discotheque created live on stage, but also composes
a neatly structured tale of and about movement, music and the strong
female element therein.
Anne Juren lives and works in Vienna. She trained
at the Conservatoire de Lyon and the Trisha Brown studios in NYC
before working with Felix Ruckert, Saskia Hölbling and Laurent
Pichaud. In 2001, she formed her own company “MKF”,
and has been involved in various solo and collaborative projects.
Alice Chauchat lives and works in Paris. She studied
in Lyon and at P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium), and was a founding member of
B.D.C. with Tom Plischke, Martin Nachbar and Hendrik Laevenz. Her
first solo Quotation marks me, was presented in 2001, which she
followed with various collaborations. Since 2002 she has performed
in Xavier Le Roy's Project.
"What's the use of being an excellent dancer…if
only to reproduce on stage anybody's gestures in a nightclub? In
Alice Chauchat and Anne Juren's case…it serves an extraordinary
writing of the body. …funny remarks show through about what
the pleasure of dancing is, jubilation, narcissism, maybe a delicious
silliness. This duet of electrified chicks is called J'aime. And
we love it." - Danser (France)
Weekend 4
Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn (Netherlands): Frans Poelstra,
his dramaturg and Bach
March 25, 26, and 27, 2005
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm
Admission $12
The joke, the improvisation, the pitfalls of public
acting, playing and dancing, his own stage personality and the presence
of the audience - these are the materials the Dutch performer Frans
Poelstra draws upon. In Frans Poelstra, his dramaturg and Bach he
sets out to fathom the inevitability of Bach for the choreographer
of a certain age. How will Poelstra survive on an official dance
stage? And can he pull through via the help of live dance, live
music and live video projections, and thus successfully battle the
Goldberg Variations?
Frans Poelstra’s collaborators include Steve
Paxton, Sasha Waltz, Vera Mantero, Benoit Lachambre, David Zambrano,
and Katie Duck; these collaborations have involved directing, acting,
performing, and dancing. For more than a decade he has collaborated
with Mark Tompkins as a performer for La Plaque Tournante ao. He
has taught workshops in Amsterdam, Lisbon and Maputo (Mozambique),
Arnhem, Montreal, and Vienna.
As a dance dramaturg, Robert Steijn has worked with
choreographers Desiree Dealauney, Gonnie Heggen, Katrina Brown,
Frans Poelstra, Paz Rojo, Nicole Beutler and Barbara Kraus. He was
co-founder of and performs in the experimental theatre company Love
& Orgasm Amsterdam, and coordinates the annual improvisation
(dance, music, new technology) festival Night of the Improvisation
in Amsterdam. Steijn teaches at the School for New Dance Development
in Amsterdam.
“It’s no technique, I learnt it in a
dream.” - Frans Poelstra
“Frans Poelstra is a radical Minimalist - with
extreme dry humor.” - Wolfgang Kralicek, Falter
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