Dance performance – “The terror of normality and normality of terror in a show combining choreography and animation!” Part of At.šiška – Austrian and Slovenian Focus on Contemporary Performing Arts CONCEPT AND EXECUTION: Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger COMPOSING AND LIVE MUSIC: Stephan Sperlich DUMMIES AND COSTUMES: Hanna Hollmann SCRIPT: Stefanie Sargnagel, Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger
Dance performance – “The terror of normality and normality of terror in a show combining choreography and animation!”
Part of At.šiška – Austrian and Slovenian Focus on Contemporary Performing Arts
CONCEPT AND EXECUTION: Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger
COMPOSING AND LIVE MUSIC: Stephan Sperlich
DUMMIES AND COSTUMES: Hanna Hollmann
SCRIPT: Stefanie Sargnagel, Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger
LIGHT: Roman Streuselberger
EXTERNAL EYE: Helmut Köpping
THANKS TO: Jacob Banigan, Guy Cools, Paulina Irazabal, Krassimira Kruschkova, Annemarie Sperlich
PRODUCTION: Performanceinitiative 22
CO-PRODUCTION: Tanzquartier Wien
SUPPORTED BY: Kulturamt Stadt Graz, A9 – Kultur Land Steiermark
In March this year, performer Alex Deutinger and choreographer Marta Navaridas appeared at the Plesna Vesna festival in Španski borci Cultural centre in the show Your Majesties, in which they reconstructed by means of choreography the speech of Barack Obama upon accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on 9 November 2009 in Oslo. In the performance On The Other Hand, subtitled The terror of normality and normality of terror, Navaridas and Deutinger are playing with the didactic language based on textbook pedagogic principles and two big dummies, thus touching upon the ontological animation relationship between the animator and the animated object, or the manipulator and the manipulated. By doing so, they introduce in the language of choreography the question of activity and devotion, of movement and immobility in the sense of politicizing artistically the issue of kinetics as an ideological question. The unpopular and irritating issue of animation within modern dance normally opens up the issues of the invisible authority of the choreographer and of silent execution of other people’s will, but the transfer of meanings to choreography as a widespread practice inevitably makes such actions a matter of social choreography.
MARTA NAVARIDAS & ALEX DEUTINGER / www.navaridasdeutinger.com
This event is made possible by INTPA – INTERNATIONAL NET FOR DANCE AND PERFORMANCE AUSTRIA of Tanzquartier Wien with funds by BMUKK and BMeiA.
