Highlights: Spielart Festival 11.18 – 12.04, 2011 (Munich, Germany)
SPIELART has been exploring and researching new trends and movements in the world of international theater since 1995, in order to present them to audiences in Munich every two years. The antennas are aimed at unusual forms of expression and aesthetics, current topics, strong personalities, and impressive productions. SPIELART, however, also always concentrates on posing...
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne’s Kindertotenlieder (France)
KTL Video NSFW “Poetry leads to the same space as all forms of eroticism, to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity…“ Georges Bataille “Eroticism“ “Jonathan: The idea of raping and killing you just triggered off its million billionth hard...
Highlights: Black Box Marstrand Festival (Norway)
Gisèle Vienne (FR) I Apologize «I Apologize» was born out of an accident reconstruction. This reconstruction is the basis from which derive several versions of the same event, in order to define its truth and reality. These various versions take on a blurred identity, somewhere between the representation of a real event and the representation...
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear
Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear: Everything starts in a forest. Extremely natural, inhabited by a buzzard in feathers and bones, this wooded landscape is staged like the reflection of the interior experiences of the characters who cross it. Depending on the light, mist and sound atmosphere, the metamorphosis capacity of the...
Highlights: Festival Overload (NYC)
Over the next two weeks 5 festivals and multiple showings of contemporary performance will be presented along side the annual APAP convention. Its a great opportunity to catch some local, national and international work. American Realness Festival (Abrons Arts Center & others) Under the Radar (The Public & others) COIL Festival (PS122) Other Forces (Ontological)...
Announcements: Under The Radar Festival 2010 (NYC, USA)
*Featured photo : L’EFFET DE SERGE ( Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio) Photo by Martin Argyroglo Under The Radar Festival Jan 6-17,2010 The Public Theater | 425 Lafayette Street | New York, NY 10003 O:212-539-8511 | F:212-539-8705 www.undertheradarfestival.com Under The Radar is a project of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and produced by The Public...
Featured: Gisèle Vienne (Paris, France)
Gisele Vienne is a puppeteer by training. She trained at the national academy of puppetry arts in Charleville-Mezieres between 1996 and 1999. She founded D.A.C.M. with Etienne Bideau-Rey, whom she met at school. Gisèle Vienne questions the body and creates hybrid forms that use installtion, visual arts, music, life size dolls, puppets, dance and theatre. Her...
In Performance: 2010 Gisèle Vienne New Work
CREATION 2010 (TITLE IN PROGRESS) Conception, direction, choregraphy & scenography Gisèle Vienne Musical Direction Stephen O’Malley with 10 musicians Text Dennis Cooper Lights Patrick Riou Video Shiro Takatani Performed by and created in collaboration with Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir, Jonathan Capdevielle et Jonathan Schatz Executive producer : DACM Coproduction (in progress) : Le Quartz – Scène nationale de...
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne + Dennis Cooper 2008 Production of JERK
A description of the 2008 production of Jerk by Dennis Cooper and directed by the French Artist, Gisèle Vienne. Jerk” is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than...
