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13 August 2010
Key Performance coordinates the distribution of the smaller-scaled creations by Cullberg Ballet from Sweden, such as the recent JJ’s voices (choreography: Benoît Lachambre) and a new piece for Spring 2011 (choreography: Ina Christel Johannessen). The distribution rights for these black box pieces apply worldwide, with the exception of France and Germany.
Read more about JJ’s voices and Cullberg Ballet here.
9 August 2010
After successful performances at the KunstenFestivaldesArts in Brussels and on location in Ghent and Douai, the Belgian company LOD now presents the site-specific installation Muur at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen (NL) on 23 & 24 August 2010.
In the same week, Poste Restante – emerging talent of the Swedish performing arts scene – will temporarily open the fully interactive The Dinner Club at Överås, a renaissance-styled villa from 1861 in Gothenburg (SE) on 24, 25 & 26 August 2010. Poste Restante creates site-specific, interactive performances where the audience’s participation and individual experiences are the focal point. Their work is made up of activities that are unexpected and wholly true to life. In Poste Restante’s pieces, visitors work personally with the performers to consider challenging life questions.
MUUR
Inne Goris – Pieter De Buysser – Dominique Pauwels
Outdoor site-specific project by LOD (BE)
A production by LOD (Ghent) & Beursschouwburg (Brussels), in coproduction with KunstenFestivaldesArts (Brussels), with the support of Goethe-Institut Brüssel in the context of ‘After the Fall’, Interdisciplinair Studiecentrum voor Kritiek en Actualiteit (ISKA) – Studium Generale (Ghent) & ONDA
In 2010 four children left everything behind to settle down on a piece of wasteland. In this former no man’s land they have constructed a circular wall, a gigantic, absurd ‘O’ that exerts a strange attraction on the city and its inhabitants. The performance begins in 2064 at the moment when new children come to take the place of the wall’s now aging residents to continue their quest.
Director Inne Goris, author Pieter De Buysser and composer Dominique Pauwels allow their highly individual theatrical idioms to interact. The result is a composition, the musicality of which lies not only in the dynamics of the script, the bodies or the space, but primarily in the harmonic balance between these three particular idioms.
Muur (Wall) is an installation, a stage performance, a teeming vault of stories and a distorted oratorio. But most of all, Muur is a happening that confronts us with our need of walls and of telling utopian stories.
THE DINNER CLUB
A project by Poste Restante (SE)
Production: Poste Restante – Originally commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Mossutställningar and The Polish Institute of Stockholm.
The Dinner Club is a fully interactive performance shaped as an evening class. Over six practical workshops, participants learn how to enjoy themselves at a dinner party with strangers. Good manners and social etiquette are taught, as well as practical tips on mastering weddings, dinner parties and openings. Exercises might include ‘Basic social dancing’, ‘The A to Z of Mingling’, or ‘Elementary Table Manners’. A three-course dinner then doubles as the exam for the session, and every visitor that passes receives a personalized diploma.
In The Dinner Club, Poste Restante carves into “good manners” to uncover a gaping divide between the sexes. Men are treated as men – and they treat women as women.
Poste Restante is a collaboration between Swedish artists Linn Hilda Lamberg and Stefan Åkesson. They have worked together since graduating in 2007 from the Dramatic Institute of Stockholm; Linn Hilda as a set designer and Stefan as a dramaturge. Poste Restante has also worked with curator Erik Berg since 2009.
Read more about The Dinner Club »
22 June 2010
The Belgian dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez and her company Voetvolk are at the moment working on their new creation, HeroNeroZero, a project involving one musician and two dancers. HeroNeroZero will premiere at Buda Arts Center, Kortrijk (BE) on 23 September 2010 and will be available for touring afterwards.
In the meantime, Lisbeth Gruwez/Voetvolk’s second performance, Birth of Prey, will be presented in Julidans, the Summer Festival for International Contemporary Dance in Amsterdam (NL) on 7 July 2010. In this performance with live music the body is shown as a machine full of animal reflexes. Birth of Prey has been touring successfully since 2008.
BIRTH OF PREY
PERFORMANCE & DANCE Lisbeth Gruwez
MUSICIANS Dave Schroyen, Maarten Van Cauwenberghe
A production by Lisbeth Gruwez/Voetvolk in co-production with Buda Kunstencentrum and Troubleyn/Jan Fabre.
Birth of Prey (2008), the second of Lisbeth Gruwez/Voetvolk’s works, is a dance solo performed with two live musicians. Birth of Prey observes the routines, rituals and body language between predator and prey.
The human body is a machine full of animal reflexes, but how are our instincts involved?
How dependent are we on what drives us, and how long can we control it for?
Birth of Prey is a circular ritual: the constant metamorphosis of being.
Read more about Birth of Prey
Trailer Birth of Prey
HERONEROZERO
DANCE & PERFORMANCE
Lisbeth Gruwez, Rob Fordeyn and Maarten Van Cauwenberghe
A production by Lisbeth Gruwez/Voetvolk in co-production with Buda Kunstencentrum and Troubleyn/Jan Fabre
Having produced two solo works, Lisbeth Gruwez wanted to create a group piece in which she could use dance as a visual language.
HeroNeroZero is a project involving one musician and two dancers (including Gruwez herself) and will premiere on 23 September 2010, in Kortrijk, Belgium.
HeroNeroZero analyses how the body disintegrates in time, leaving memories behind, and sometimes just a footprint of life. Human beings pursue success and search constantly for more, bigger and better. They search for meaning and are always on the lookout for signs that confirm their existence and significance.
We offer resistance and we fight, sometimes we’re heroic, sometimes humiliated, always hunted down by the fear that we might disappear into oblivion.
We are Hero, Nero or Zero.
Read more about HeroNeroZero
7 June 2010
The Argentine choreographer Constanza Macras is currently in focus with two performances, Megalopolis and The Offside Rules.
With her company DorkyPark she operates from Berlin where she has found a fertile biotope for her creations – a fusion of dance, music, text, and video, often high in camp, always socially engaged, and expressing a critical worldview.
Megalopolis, one of her most recent productions, will be presented again in Berlin at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, on 17, 18 & 19 June 2010. Megalopolis will remain on the company’s repertoire in the next seasons.
The Offside Rules will be available for touring during January-February 2011. Constanza Macras recently created this specific project at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg with support from the Goethe Institute. Please note that there are still dates available for touring.
More info: koen@keyperformance.se
photo © Thomas Aurin
MEGALOPOLIS
Direction & Choreography: Constanza Macras
A production by Constanza Macras | DorkyPark and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, in coproduction with HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste and MESS Sarajevo.
Megalopolis is not a specific, but a metaphysical place. The scene is a city under the impact of globalism. The city is characterized by the illegibility of today’s megacities, born into chaos. Its features are unbridled growth, decay and endless disbandment. Which correlations are still valid here? Will urban development follow principles unknown to us? Is the discernable decay of social relations a cause or an effect of our cities’ apparent deterioration?
Megalopolis is a promise and a curse. Megalopolis is a beaming city. Megalopolis is an uncontrollable construct, constantly in motion.
Read more about Megalopolis here
Trailer Megalopolis
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
17, 18, 19 June 2010 – Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Berlin, DE)
30, 31 August 2010 – Tanz im August (Berlin, DE)
1, 2 September 2010 – Tanz im August (Berlin, DE)
28, 29 September 2010 – Zagreb Theatre Festival (Zagreb, HR)
10 October 2010 – Theater Freiburg (Freiburg, DE)
PRESS ON MEGALOPOLIS
“Constanza Macras has developed her method. The choreographer works with exaggeration and excessive demands until overkill. She sharpens stereotypes and tackles clichés about ethnic minorities. […] She connects trash, tragedy, humor and reflection to a furious dancing evening about the city, the garbage and the bodies.”
Der Tagesspiegel
“Between the athletic, dynamic pictures of the ensemble Constanza Macras choreographs solo scenes full of melancholy, depression and rebellion. […] Constanza Macras doesn’t want to teach the audience a lesson, but what she has to say, she communicates precisely and impressively with humor and sensuality.”
Märkische Oderzeitung
For more press clippings click here
THE OFFSIDE RULES
Direction & Choreography: Constanza Macras
A production by Constanza Macras/DorkyPark in coproduction with The Goethe-Institute South Africa and The Market Theatre Johannesburg.
In this special collaboration, three performers from Constanza Macras’ company
team up with dancers from Johannesburg to reflect on the first African World
Cup.
Constanza Macras sees Johannesburg as the country’s premier urban landscape
representing the space where the evolving story of the new South Africa is most
fully played out. Will the euphoria of the event
reconcile differences? Or will it accentuate existing conflicts? How accessible are
its benefits to everybody?
Read more about The Offside Rules here
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
In January-February 2011 The Offside Rules will be presented at Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, DE), at Kampnagel (Hamburg, DE) and in Freiburg (DE), with the support from the Goethe Institute. There are still some dates available for late deciders. More info: koen@keyperformance.se
PRESS ON THE OFFSIDE RULES
“The production summons a surreal landscape in which desire, anger, fear, empathy and love all collide in unexpected, amusing and shocking ways. It’s almost as if Macras is trying to shake society loose from its conventions to see what lies beneath the façade of order and control.” The Sunday Independent
“The presentation is compelling and unusual.”
Times LIVE
For more press clippings click here.
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26 May 2010
Key Performance is a brand new arts management company based in Stockholm, Sweden.
We advise and manage a select group of artists and organisations, specialising in international touring activity in the performing arts.
We represent artists who are distinguished by their willingness to innovate and take bold creative risks. Today, we collaborate with Constanza Macras/DorkyPark (DE), LOD (BE), Lisbeth Gruwez/Voetvolk (BE) & Poste Restante (SE).
Koen Vanhove, Founder & Managing Director
Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Art Project Manager
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MUUR (WALL)
Inne Goris – Pieter De Buysser – Dominique Pauwels
Outdoor site-specific project by LOD (BE)
27, 28, 29, 30 May in Ghent (BE), organized by KC Vooruit
12, 13 June in Douai (FR), organized by Hippodrome de Douai
In 2010 four children left everything behind to settle down on a piece of wasteland. In this former no man’s land they have constructed a circular wall, a gigantic, absurd ‘O’ that exerts a strange attraction on the city and its inhabitants. The performance begins in 2064 at the moment when new children come to take the place of the wall’s now aging residents to continue their quest.
Director Inne Goris, author Pieter De Buysser and composer Dominique Pauwels allow their highly individual theatrical idioms to interact. The result is a composition, the musicality of which lies not only in the dynamics of the script, the bodies or the space, but primarily in the harmonic balance between these three particular idioms.
Muur is an installation, a stage performance, a teeming vault of stories and a distorted oratorio. But most of all, Muur is a happening that confronts us with our need of walls and of telling utopian stories.
PRESS
“Only the Kunstenfestivaldesarts enables you to experience something so simultaneously remarkable, poetic, beautiful and oppressive as what is brought to life in Muur, currently being performed at the Tour & Taxis site.” (La Libre Belgique)
“I love the work of Inne Goris. I love it because it’s different: it’s not dance, it’s not theatre, and it’s not performance art. To explain what it actually is takes a few more words, which is interesting. Because it dares to be stubborn: she doesn’t compromise, she makes no concessions: with her it’s take it or leave it. Because she creates images that inspire new images in your head: it’s always more than what you see.” (De Morgen)
Muur (Wall) is an outdoor, site-specific project and will be available on demand.
More info: valerie@lod.be or koen@keyperformance.se
