After the start of our FELT Scotland Tour last week, we are happy to publish some first audience comments on the piece.
Together with Tim Nunn and Simone Stewart, and with the support of the Hunterian Gallery Glasgow, Workroom Glasgow, Goethe Institut Glasgow, as well as Creative Scotland, a symposium entitled ‘One second it’s there…’ – Movement, Time, Space and the Art of Dance in Museums and Galleries will take place at the Hunterian Gallery in Glasgow on June 26, as part of the FELT Summer Tour.
“One Second It’s There….
Movement, time, space and the art of dance in galleries in museums
A day of discussion, performance and exchange between artists, curators and everyone interested in the art of the choreographer and dancer.
What potential does the gallery have for the choreographer and performer?
To what extent does the gallery vistors differ from the theatre audience? Can time be perceived differently or is it always perceived differently in these contrasting environments?
What is the function of the performance archive or the remnant?
Presentation by Dr. Nele Lipp: 100 Years of Dance <-> Object
In dialogue: Vincent Crapon (Freelance Curator), Lucy Suggate (Artist), Michael Bachmann (Professor of Theatre Studies)
Short performances: Ashanti Harris, Mark Bleakly
Transcript: Emma McLuskey
In the afternoon there will be a ‘Long Table’ discussion.
In the evening FELT will be performed for symposium participants.
“[Dance] gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”
– Merce Cunningham
“One could easily assume that the substance of choreographic thought resided exclusively in the body. But is it possible for choreography to generate autonomous expressions of its principles, a choreographic object, without the body?”
– William Forsythe
“To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life — not existing forms of dance.”
– Pina Bausch
[when we watch others dance,] “we shall cease to be mere spectators and become participants in the movement that is presented to us, and though to all outward appearances we shall be sitting quietly in our chairs, we shall nevertheless be dancing synthetically with all our musculature.”
– John Martin, Introduction to Dance
-Wassily Kandinsky, Dance Curves
“I am thinking around performance, the stage, the museum or gallery, visual art, video, film, writing… active contemplation and how I would like to be able to live in and between these particular forms (perceived medium landscapes) as organically as possible, banishing any hierarchy… A principal question to this process is: how can an intensive artistic research and immediate art-making practice translate to the staged realm of the spectator? This ongoing struggle between process and production creates a tension that is a vital element in all of my artistic work.”
– Ralph Lemon
“…Watching dance is no mystery: what you see or feel is what is happening.“
– Jonathan Burrows
Invited by artistic director Steve Karier, Elisabeth, together with the renowned pianist Cathy Krier, will present a research work entitled ‘Mosaikgleiche Augenblicklichkeiten – Skizzen zu Ligeti’ at the Monolabo Festival in Luxembourg.
Where do dance and music meet? One might immediately assume that no two other forms of art have ever entered into a closer and more intricate relationship than these. But let’s be more precise, then: Where do dance and music meet if the objective is not — not at all — to mimic or to mirror, to illustrate, to produce an atmosphere, to provide a backdrop, or even to merely co-exist, neatly separated?
György Ligeti said of his Études that they behaved, in a compositional and pianistic sense, like “growing organisms”. Following this line of thought, the choreographer Elisabeth Schilling and the pianist Cathy Krier will seek to create an unprecedented take on the Études, treating dance and music as contiguous forms growing alongside and into each other, thus producing a dance-concert and concert-dance in which neither form shall dominate the other.
The work shown at Monodrama Festival Luxembourg is a first research performance.
Photographer Credit: Julie Freichel
Friday, 15 June, 19h , Banannefabrik Luxembourg
More information on: http://fundamental.lu/de/festival-2019/monolabo-mosaikgleiche-augenblicklich-keiten-skizzen-zu-ligeti
Image: Julie Freichel
12 JUNE
BANCHORY – The Barn
10 am: Adapted performance for early years
7.30pm: Performace
Cost: £8.00
13 JUNE
Dundee – Scottish Dance Theatre Workshop Only www.scottishdancetheatre.com
21 JUNE
NEW GALLOWAY – The Catstrand
7pm: Performace
Cost: £12 / £4 u25s
27-29 JUNE
GLASGOW – The Hunterian Art Gallery
27-28.06: 7pm, 29.06: 2.30pm Cost: £5 / 3
On 26 June there will be a symposium exploring the performance of dance in art galleries. Please go to the website for details.
4 JULY
EDINBURGH – Dovecot Studios
2pm and 6.30pm: Performances
Cost: £6 / 4
www.feltdovecot.eventbrite.co.uk
6 JULY
ST ANDREWS – Byre Theatre
7pm: Performance
Cost: £12 / 8
Workshop, see website for details T. 01334 475000
11 JULY
BALINTORE – Seaboard Centre
7pm: Performance
13 JULY
SHETLAND, UNST – Uyeasound Community Hall (Openspace)
7.30pm: Performance
Cost: Pay-What-You-Want on the door
18-19 JULY
Workshop sessions over two days, see website for details.
Methodist Church Hall
Shetland, Lerwick
18.06: 12.30-4.30pm
19.06: 10am-2pm
2 0 J U L Y
SHETLAND, LERWICK – Mareel Arts Centre
5pm: Performace
Cost: £10 /
In the coming weeks, Elisabeth will be in residency at the dance house SPAM! in Italy to start the research of a new piece: the choreographic interpretation of György Ligeti’s Etudes.
FELT – an hommage to the sense of touch: 150 participants (age 3-70) felt and experienced textures & materials to make dances with these over the past 3 weeks in different institutions across Rhineland-Palatinate.
This has been supported by: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung und Kultur RLP, der Silvio und Waltraud del’ Antonio Kunsmann Stiftung Wittlich, Casa Tony M Wittlich, Sparkassenstiftung Bernkastel-Wittlich, Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Bernkastel-Wittlich
Audiences voices after FELT Première by Véronique Kesseler, Meridith Moth, Sandra Lieners, Christopher Petry and Juliette Geesmann.
On May 18th 2019 ELisabeth will peform FELT at Frankfurter Hof in Mainz.
More info at: https://www.ztix.de/event.php/3285013
The press review on FELT by Anina Valle Thiele in Luxembourg’s Tageblatt:
‚Elisabeth Schilling keeps surprising (…). Her dance choreographies are unusual, explosive and abstract. They play with our perception.’
Some (audience members) even spoke of a new art form, between choreography and performance, between visual art and dance and material that has come to life.’
On 11 May, Elisabeth will dance a performance specially developed for the museum at the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt during the event of the Night of the Museums in Frankfurt.Uhr: 22 / 23 / 24Uhr. Admission free.
The choreographer and dancer Elisabeth Schilling presents a performance on the Lichtbrücke on the first floor of the museum, which combines dance, design and music into an aesthetic work of art. The variation developed for the museum refers to Schilling’s wide-ranging repertoire, in which she deals with movement qualities and textures as well as their composition in time and space’.
More info at: https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de
BEAUTY & BEATS
Exhibition: Opening of the exhibition Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty
After the great success of his Happy Show, Stefan Sagmeister, the New York-based superstar of graphic design, returns to the Museum of Applied Arts in 2019. Together with his studio partner Jessica Walsh, the new exhibition project Beauty provides a very personal, visually impressive plea for the pleasure of beauty. To kick off the exhibition, we take the visitors* to the Night of the Museums on a sensually pleasurable search for the question: What is beauty and why do we feel attracted to it?
Exhibition: Contemporary Muslim Fashions
From haute couture to streetwear to sportswear: The market for Muslim fashion is growing rapidly worldwide. Contemporary Muslim Fashions is the first major exhibition to deal with the phenomenon of contemporary Muslim fashion. After the show caused a sensation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, it will be shown in Frankfurt as the first stop in Europe. Visitors* are immersed in snapshots of current Muslim clothing styles from around the world, with a focus on the Middle East and Southeast Asia as well as Europe and the USA.
Image: Ari Weinkle
Lou begann im Alter von 5 Jahren in ihrer Heimatstadt zu tanzen. Im Jahr 2012 schloss sie sich dem Ballet Junior de Genève an, wo sie Werke von renommierten Choreografen wie Andonis Foniadakis oder Hofesh Schechter tanzte. 2016 schloss sie sich dem Kamea Dance Cie in Israel an, wo sie unter anderem Werke des Regisseurs Tamir Ginz, aber auch von Nacho Duato und Marco Goecke tanzte. Seit 2020 ist sie als Gasttänzerin am Grand Théâtre de Genève engagiert und arbeitet seitdem als freischaffende Tänzerin.
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna Schmitt