the way you look tonight brings the process of ‘looking’ to our attention and asks how, as an audience, we listen and project meaning onto what we are watching.
Confronted with the effect of the gaze Murray explores the notion that, ‘as spectators we are as implicated in the creation of performance as the performers’. To do this, the work inverts the theater setting, placing the audience onstage. It is from here, the performers conduct a rehearsal of the spectators, drawing attention to the power of their watching.
The performers attempt to actualize the perceived desires of their audience, eventually removing language and moving in response to their gaze. Murray invites us to consider performance a result of how we experience ourselves in relation to others and the spaces we inhabit.
The two performers use the curtain as a threshold from which to play physical games of hiding and revealing, of disguise and discovering, of changing characters and de/constructing identity. Their interaction with the curtain provide the performers with a playground in which to experiment with image, fragments, fantasy and peeping holes. Their surprising and irreverent treatment of the curtain allows them to dress up, blur perspectives and tease us with all the possible shows contained behind it.
Ultimately we come to ask how our fantasies of ourselves and of each other might create new possibilities for being?
Artistic direction, Concept and Performance: Emma Murray / Performance: Marius Schaffter / Concept, Dramaturgy: Oded Littman / Concept, Direction and Production Assistance: Johanna Hilari / Stage Design, Costume: Valeria Felder / Sound: Till Hillbrecht / Light design: Jonas Bühler / Choreographic Advisor: Elisabeth Waterhouse / Dramaturgical Advisor: Guy Cools («Danse et Dramaturgie 14-15») / Production: Eliane Keller, Jana Zingg.
A Co-production with Dampfzentrale Bern.
the way you look tonight is a project developed within the frame of «Danse et Dramaturgie 14-15». A platform from Théâtre Sévelin 36 in Lausanne and in partnership with Dampfzentrale Bern, Tanzhaus Zürich and Théâtre de l’Usine Geneva. With support from Pro Helvetia, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA) und Migros Kulturprozent.
Supported by: Kulturförderung Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Schweizer Tanzarchiv – Prize for Video Documentation, Verein Marcel Leemann, Residenz Tanz Leuk.
With thanks to: Steve Walker und Voltafilm, Brigitte Frey, Joëlle Valterio, Lukas Beyeler, Andrea Baumann, RESO-Workshop ‚Feedback-Formate für kreative Settings’.
WORKING SESSIONS
- Mirko, Martin and Johanna in the tower, Kortrijk, BE August 22, 2014
- Photo August 22, 2014
- In einem Gespräch mit Martin über Erfahrungen und Strategien offenbart er eine sehr offene... August 22, 2014
- CONCEPT Community processes - Arquitecture & Urbanism - Body awareness &... August 22, 2014
- Do you have any tried and tested 'rules' (criteria) when collaborating or considering a new collaboration? August 21, 2014
- LANDMARK training Kortrijk Congè, BE July 2014 July 27, 2014
- Die Grundidee von LANDMARK ® ist ein gemeinschaftliches Körpertraining für eine spezifische... July 6, 2014
- LANDMARK(c) Dancing the neighborhood | Kunstencentrum BUDA July 6, 2014
- Working Sessions goes Kortrijk Congé July 6, 2014
- Photo June 13, 2014
Mirko, Martin and Johanna in the tower, Kortrijk, BE
Mirko, Martin and Johanna in the tower, Kortrijk, BE
In Einem Gespräch Mit Martin über Erfahrungen Und
In einem Gespräch mit Martin über Erfahrungen und Strategien offenbart er eine sehr offene Arebitsweise, die meist auf Zusammenarbeit/Kollaboration mit anderen KünsterInnen beruht.
Emma: You seem to be really effective in being loose or light and at the same time very concentrated in your approach.
Martin: I always have the… [more]
Concept Community Processes Arquitecture
CONCEPT
Community processes - Arquitecture & Urbanism - Body awareness & trainig
Linear connections between these motives are already widely existant in socio artistic practice. The LANDMARK training positions itself in the crossover between Community processes, Architecture & Urbanism and Body awareness & training.
Hereby the transitions are… [more]
Do you have any tried and tested 'rules' (criteria) when collaborating or considering a new collaboration?
emmainbern:
Martin Schick:
“Yes, mainly to not call it collaboration. I find it a terrible system, it reminds me of the word 'collapse'. I prefer to call it 'co-operation', which means accepting difficulties and differences and letting them co-exist. No consensus!”
Schick postuliert damit die Möglichkeit und gewissermassen Fruchtbarkeit, die… [more]
LANDMARK training Kortrijk Congè, BE July 2014
LANDMARK training Kortrijk Congè, BE July 2014
Die Grundidee Von Landmark Ist Ein
Die Grundidee von LANDMARK ® ist ein gemeinschaftliches Körpertraining für eine spezifische Nachbarschaft oder Kleinstadt, das Gemeinschaftsbildung und soziale Stadtentwicklungen fördert.
Das Körpertraining an sich fördert die Körperintelligenz und trainiert Rhythmus, Dynamik, Ausdauer, Kraft und Koordination. Das Training erlaubt eine individuelle Mitwirkung und einen persönlichen Zugang, gleichzeitig werden Räume für… [more]
LANDMARK(c) Dancing the neighborhood | Kunstencentrum BUDA
Working Sessions goes Kortrijk Congé
Mit Martin Schick arbeiten wir an “LANDMARK” und nützen die wertvolle Gelegenheit uns gleichzeitig über den Prozess auszutauschen. (Natürlich auch über vergangene Arbeitsprozesse und ‘Prozess’ im Allgemeinen.)
community based physical training LANDMARK introduces physical training into a specific neighbourhood or small city as a
way of sustainable community building… [more]
SOSA - SOCIAL SPACE AGENCY
Stell Dir den sozialen Raum als ein Strassennetz vor: Er besteht aus Strassen, die die Menschen gemeinsam erbaut haben, um eine ‹Gesellschaft› zu erzeugen. In dieser Gesellschaft verhalten wir uns in jeder Situation so, als befänden wir uns an einer Weggabelung: Wir versuchen festzustellen, welches Verhalten angebracht ist und wählen… [more]
