Elisabeth is very excited to have received the opportunity to participate in an event by one of her big heroes Dana Caspersen. Dana will lead an event on racism called ‘UNDER I STAND’ at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

March 6th, 2018: The University of Southern California, Los Angeles

httpss://danacaspersen.com/services/public-dialogue/under-stand/

Elisabeth will be featured in the upcoming exhibition by photographer Lynn Theisen in March.

More info: httpss://www.danse.lu/evenements/3-du-trois/mars-2018/

Image: Lynn Theisen

In the coming weeks, Elisabeth will embark on a new research process together with designer & visual artist Mélanie Planchard. Supported by TROIS C-L, Centre de Création Chorégraphique (LU), Zsenne Art Lab (BE) as well as Sjönevad Arts Space (SE), the project’s aim is to explore synergetic potentials between dance and costume design. To this end, the dancer and choreographer Elisabeth Schilling and the costume designer Mélanie Planchard will examine, in an intensive cooperation, to which extent, in dance, textile objects are not merely props that step back behind human movement, but actants that enter into a reciprocal and creative relationship to body and movement. How can certain states and qualities of movement be translated from the body of the dancer, via the eyes and hands of the designer, into an object that itself interacts with the corporeal reality it encloses? And how does that corporeal reality, the body, react to this object, which touches it, only seemingly external and foreign, extending its surface? What new movements does this touching enable, and of what kind are the textures of meaning and sensibility that emerge once all objects become actants on the same plane, dancing together?

As these questions suggest, the research will begin from the phenomenon of touch: How can movements and materials, though apparently of different natures, touch? How can material textures be translated into movement? How do we move between senses (from vision to touch, from touch to vision, etc.), and how can one sense be transposed into another? The project will act as a laboratory for interdependent experimentation and invention, in which new and perhaps surprising forms of touching and sensing may emerge. If, in a narrow sense, touch is the (intentional or unintentional) contact established between two or more physical objects, our approach will be to investigate forms of touching that need not, or not necessarily, involve physical contact, proposing a form of touching that allows all senses to act in concert, allowing sensations to traverse sensitive media (movement becomes vision becomes physical sensation, etc.).

Picture: Martine Pinnel

From 13th – 18th February, Elisabeth will be in residency at Arbeitsplatz Vienna.

On February 19th, SIXFOLD will be performed at Raw Matters, Vienna. Moreover, Elisabeth has been invited to perform the work at the event ‘High & Low’ at 4bid Gallery Amsterdam on February 21st.

More info:

httpss://www.rawmatters.at/

https://4bidgallery.wordpress.com/

 

Image: Bohumil Kostohryz

Last Wednesday, 31st January 2018, a preview on SIXFOLD was shown on German television (ARD / Saarländischer Rundfunk).

From minute 13: httpss://www.sr.de/sr/fernsehen/sendungen_a_-_z/uebersicht/wir_im_saarland/kultur/index.html

SIXFOLD will next be shown on February 4th at TUFA Trier. More information on httpss://www.tufa-trier.de/

Image: Bohumil Kostohryz