x-mal Kleid (x-time dress)
[x-mal Kleid] is a project that consists out of a route, a walk through
the city with shortcuts of solos, duos and trios and led by musicians. A
new concept, created as a promenade through a city quarter, an urban
space … with performances inspired from an art object, dresses, designed
by artists from Switzerland, Mascha Miono - Art to Wear and from
Germany, Sabine Kreiter - stylist, Nicole Langen - designer.
If
to be performed outdoor in an open space, a park, through a street … or
created for a more sheltered space such as a theatre, a church, a
monastery, any interesting building on an architectural point of view…
the choreography has to take care to develop the architectural
atmosphere by building an opposition, a confrontation or a possible
co-existence with the specific place where the performance will be
danced and the dress.
The spectators will than discover the particularity of the chosen
territory while the inhabitants will rediscover their daily perspectives
transformed or newly animated for a short moment.
Why a garment?
A dress is considered as the instrument of a work and a space of experiments:
- either large and ample the dress conspired to shelter the escape,
- tightly constricted it will extremely confined the movement.
Musicians do take care of developing the theme of the choreography
connected to the architecture even more and invites the public to follow
the experiment of discovering what the next performance will be as well
as where it will all happened. This requests an active participation of
the audience. The spectators join the action which moves from one site
to the other and which has to integrate each new architectural or
natural element that the "promenade" will reach: river, building, tree,
bridge, gate...
Dancer: Isabelle Demaret (B),
Valeria Garré (ARG), David Golinval (B), Denise Gospodarek (D/NL),
Guillermo Horta (Cuba), Barbara Pereyra (ARG)
Musicians: Pirly Zurstrassen, Kurt Budé, Barbara Wiernik
Dress: Sabine Kreiter (D), Nicole Langen (D), Mascha Mioni (CH)
Artistic direction: Irène Kalbusch (B)
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