In Girum #2 - flyer

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/ seconde main / bains::connective / brussels / 6-7 september 2007 /

seconde main

Brynjar Bandlien (dance)
David Bausseron (music)
Julien Bruneau (dance)
Bertram Dhellemmes (music)
Dolores Hulan (dance)
Anouk Llaurens (dance)
Sylvia Platzer (music)
Armand van der Hammer (dance)
Hugues Warin (music)

more info and pictures on Seconde Main's blog.


oint.oint.

Julien Bruneau (dance, writing, voice)
Hugues Warin (music)


butterflies, sex & hypochondria

Ines Birkhan (dance)
Silvia Platzer (music)


6 september 2007 oint.oint. + seconde main
7 september 2007 butterflies, sex & hypochondria + seconde main

Bains::Connective
34 rue Berthelotstraat

1190 Bruxelles

In girum #1 flyer

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In girum #2 in Dock 11, Berlin, 18>21 October 2007

4 instant composition evenings curated by Real Dance Super Sentai

I am a reborn smoker, dancing the absent body

Robert Steijn

It is on, the search of silence

Ivo Bol + Ailed Izurieta

information on ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni.blogspot.com

seconde main in bains::connective, Brussels, 6-7 September 2007

oint.oint

Julien Bruneau: dance
Hugues Warin: music

This dance music and poetry project confronts two “monologues”, one from a dancer and the other one from a musician, each one of them being autonomous, a distinct point of view of the same situation.

One of the specificities of the literary form of the monologue is to show a moving thought which stands in the course of passing time, just as the body does. Erasures, incoherences, digressions, rifts are not rocks on which the process stops, but necessary stages to go through.

6 september 2007

Butterflies, Sex & Hypochondria

Ines Birkhan: dance
Silvia Platzer: music

Butterflies, sex & hypochondria is a series of dance works of Ines Birkhan using this title – her personal understanding of how social repression of physicality can be opposed through performance – in a programmatic way.

She conceived the constitutive elements of this dance performance in order to create the conditions to keep building for herself a wild and beautiful becoming.

To share this process with the audience, this stage of the project involves the creation of a fictional character embodying a femininity built from personal experience and cultural models and freely released on stage.

7 september 2007

seconde main

improvisation project proposed by Julien Bruneau

with
Brynjar Bandlien (dance)
David Bausseron (music)
Julien Bruneau (dance)
Bertram Dhellemmes (music)
Dolores Hulan (dance)
Anouk Llaurens (dance)
Sylvia Platzer (music)
Armand van der Hammer (dance)
Hugues Warin (music)

seconde main is a dance and music instant composition project proposed by Julien Bruneau.

During these two evenings, dancers and musicians from Brussels, Berlin and Lille will propose their work based on a common desire to explore further the moment when an exchange between artist and audience happens.

Each evening will present different compositions in which music and dance claim their mutual autonomy, interconnect through changing relations and try to unfold the potential diversity of the group.

6-7 September 2007


bains::connective
Rue Berthelotstraat 34
1190 Vorst|Forest - Brussels

In girum #1 in Dock 11, Berlin, 9>12 August 2007

4 instant composition evenings curated by Real Dance Super Sentai

Schmetterlinge, Sex & Hypochondrie

Ines Birkhan: dance + concept

„Butterflies, sex & hypochondria“ is part of a series of dance works using this title – a personal understanding of how social repression of physicality can be released through performance – in a programmatic way.

"In case of disturbance the catarpillar withdraws its head downwards, curves the chest section spherically up and presents its eye marks…"

Untitled

Bertram Dhellemmes: music
Helga Wretman: dance

Daniel Keller & Asier Solana: light design

Untitled is an instant composition performance where dance & music are built by mutually founding each other, in a deeply physical and reciprocal manipulation of sound, light, movement and space.

In girum...
9, 10, 11 & 12 August 2007



Dock 11
Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin
phone: (004930) 4481222
www.dock11-berlin.de

butterflies, sex & hypochondria in Autresens, 6 July 2007

Butterflies, Sex & Hypochondria

Ines Birkhan: dance
Bertram Dhellemmes: music

„Butterflies, sex & hypochondria“ is part of a series of dance works using this title – a personal understanding of how social repression of physicality can be released through performance – in a programmatic way.

"In case of disturbance the catarpillar withdraws its head downwards, curves the chest section spherically up and presents its eye marks…"

Fàbricadanse
Autresens
4 place du pré commun,
Mazères-sur-Salat, France
6 July 2007
www.autresens.com

Klang zur Stille zum Klang in Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, 25 > 30 June 2007

Klang zur Stille zum Klang

a video installation by Ines BIRKHAN & Bertram DHELLEMMES

In Klang zur Stille zum Klang – a composite storytelling video installation – are superimposed the meeting of the she-Krampus (a legendary character from the Austrian Alps) and the new inhabitants of the mountains, and the tribulations of Tchumuki, a rebel employée of the silence factory.

Rencontres Internationales
Babylon:Mitte Movie Theatre
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
D-10178 Berlin
U2 Rosa-Luxemburg Platz
25 > 30 June 2007 - 2pm > 8pm
www.art-action.org

Klang zur Stille zum Klang in Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, 28 April > 5 May 2007

Klang zur Stille zum Klang

a video installation by Ines BIRKHAN & Bertram DHELLEMMES

In Klang zur Stille zum Klang – a composite storytelling video installation – are superimposed the meeting of the she-Krampus (a legendary character from the Austrian Alps) and the new inhabitants of the mountains, and the tribulations of Tchumuki, a rebel employée of the silence factory.

This video work is a research in creating a hybrid media, a "video-novel" aiming to develop new forms of narrativity by combining differents field of arts – literature, dance, music and video. Here, images and sounds are not the supports of narration (which claims its rooting in the tradition of novel or even fable), but strongly influence its perception at the edge of consciousness, and also link reading to the temporality of audiovisual. In this interlacing of sensitive and intellectual perceptions, each element is carefully articulated to the others to elaborate a larger though still discreet experience.

In the “video-novels” series to which Klang zur Stille zum Klang belongs, the combination of images, sounds and texts allows an exploration of an ‘extended field of literature’. It proposes a complexity of perception that requires the full involvement of the audience, as well as openness at different intellectual and emotional levels, thus renewing the fundamental experience of reading. A framed time for reading provides a musicality that is not limited to the audible but indeed in the structural perception of time. The images are not anymore the centre of the proposal but a sensitive background that prepare the reception of the text, and the music is building a homogeneous environment. The fictional universe built by the narrative is also composite, making myth and modernity one, linking fairytale and social concern, and this reflects in the language used, a creative extrapolation both familiar and strange.

Klang zur Stille zum Klang was premiered in the exhibition Mythen für die Zukunft in Cabaret Renz, Vienna, in January 2006.

Rencontres Internationales
Circulo de Bellas Artes
c/ Alcalá, 42 - 28014 Madrid
From April 28th to May 5th 2007
11:00 > 21:00
www.art-action.org

den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen, released on March 19 in Peter Lang Verlag

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen

short story and portfolio by Ines Birkhan

Can the reenactment of the Ramayana take place in a gender deprived society (where women can be confused with gazelles) ? What is the role then of the Professor, involved in his quest to a lost fertility as the world has become a toxic waste which ground is too foul to allow human foot to be set on it, and bares only the eerie todeng plants? And is all this happening on or off stage, when dance and choir seem to be part of normal life ?

In Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen, Ines Birkhan builds a complex and personal universe, based – but not only – on her experience as a dance performer, and interrogations on relations between nature and culture…

Accompanied by essais by Hans-Dieter Klein, Evelin Klein & Ingvild Birkhan.


Peter lang Verlag, Vienna, Reihe Persephone 5, Technikkritik & Ästhetik

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen + guests in Dock 11, Berlin > 22-29 March 2007

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen

dance + text performance

Ines Birkhan: dance, choreography, text
Bertram Dhellemmes: music, video, dramaturgy

a Real Dance Super Sentai joint

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen is a dance/text performance that creates a connection of the two media, while they are conveying meaning in different ways.

In the fiction of the text the protagonist finds a way to re-root himself into the toxic ground by falling back on a ritualistic dance form. The dance on stage develops a world of perception articulated to the text and relies on the want for language of the body.

This performance tells a story about potential future, about the transformation of bodies and environment dominated but uncontrolled by technoscience. One could call it science fiction, a fable or philosophical tale.

22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 March 2007, 8:30 pm

guest acts



vrac pli

choreography and dance: Julien Bruneau

with the help of: Ines Birkhan, Alix de Morant

A walk digs into space. Then a dance arises.
The dance digs into the person dancing. Then a travel arises.
Each moment is a question for the previous moment.
Each moment is bending towards itself to find the lever,
which will pour it into the next one.

vrac pli is a travel towards a travel, rooted in the desire to confront dance practice and work to the musical world of Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990).

a Netwerk (Aalst) production, with the support of asbl VEGA (Brussel), De Pianofabriek (Brussel), Summer Studio’s (Brussel) and Point Ephémère (Paris)

Julien Bruneau is based in Belgium where he first studied visual art. His artistic research led him towards dance, his main activity since then. His current approach to contemporary dance passes by a continuous personal research and practice oncerned by the articulation of body and mind. For several years, he creates his own pieces and collaborates with people involved in various art fields. Beside he is also a performer for other’s project, currently for Stefan Dreher’s company.

22 & 23 March 2007




The Devil in the Ear / Whose body is it, Anyway

A dance improvisation embedded in silence by Katerina Bakatsaki

Katerina Bakatsaki (GR, NL) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and sworn improviser, based in Amsterdam. Her approach to performance is currently focused on the immersion of the dancing / performing body to the quotidian. She sees dance as an act- of will- at-its-best and works without distinction as much with professional dancers, actors and musicians as with people of all experiences, ages and paths of life. She dances and presents work just about anywhere, from Opera Comique in Paris to downtown streets of Athens and Taipei, to tram stops and private houses in Amsterdam, in their most insignificant and non-dramatic places. As she assumes the principle of The Performer being the Performance, any time is the time and any place is the place.

24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 March 2007


Dock 11
Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin
phone: (004930) 4481222
www.dock11-berlin.de

Die Welt als wilde Vorstellung in Schloß Bröllin > November 2007

Real Dance Super Sentai's new performance project Die Welt als wilde Vorstellung will be in residence in Schloß Bröllin in November 2007.

For information about the working process, please click here.

Alpiner Exorzismus in WUK, Vienna > 31 January > 7 February 2007

Alpiner Exorzismus

dance video, 2004, DV, 61'
conceived and directed by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
production Real Dance Super Sentai
with the support of Nadine & Villa Proudhon

In the meadows, in the forests, in the snowfields, on the summits, by the streams dwell and frolic the little people of the Alp mountains and some inflatable orc on its quest for absolute white.

A slow burn twisted fairy tale with askew words, songs and dance.

Crossbreeds / Plattform für künstlerische Positionen im Dazwischen / Tanz / Performance / Neue Medien
31 January - 7 February 2007
WUK
Währingerstrasse 59
1090 Vienna, Austria
info@wuk.at
www.wuk.at

Alpiner Exorzismus at Salon Vidéo d'Hiver, Brussels > 28 January 2007

Alpiner Exorzismus

dance video, 2004, DV, 61'
conceived and directed by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
production Real Dance Super Sentai
with the support of Nadine & Villa Proudhon

#2 Salon Vidéo d'Hiver
27 & 28 january 2007
Salon Mommen : Ateliers Mommen asbl
37 rue de la charité 1210 Brussels

Angel Meat/Noughts in Dock11, Berlin > 10/11 February 2007

an instant composition performance evening curated by Real Dance Super Sentai



Angel Meat

Kyung-sun Baek: dance - Bertram Dhellemmes: music

Angel Meat is based on a feedback between artistic research and the established rock subculture that is the main background of western people. Art being for one century busy defining itself in its successive modern / postmodern / hypermodern manifestations, pop culture has been left dealing with big issues such as death, sexuality, love or metaphysic – often awkwardly, but now it's today's mythology.

A multimedia work in progress, Angel Meat opens up this mythical universe with the strategies of informal experimental performance art – the current issue involving music (Bertram Dhellemmes) and dance (Kyung-sun Baek).

Noughts

Daniel Schorno: music - Frank van de Ven: dance

'Noughts' is the platform Daniel Schorno (electronics) and Frank van de Ven (dance) created to breach boundaries of dialectics between sound, gesture, motion & video art, through improvisation of a hyper sensitive nature.

The duo uses the notion of 'nought', archaic interpretations of the term, a frantic game of 'noughts & crosses', played out to exhaustion and the inspiration of the meanings of 'zero', into performances of great delicacy and power.

Both are based in Amsterdam and are travelling and performing individually and together the world over.

10 & 11 February 2007, 8:30 pm
Dock 11
Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin
phone: (004930) 4481222
www.dock11-berlin.de

L'Eve Future, work in progress presentation, Amsterdam > 10 july 2006

Eve Future

A dance and music theatre alternative adaptation
of the book by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam.

by
Bertram Dhellemmes
Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir
Esther Mugambi

L'Eve Future is a remarkable novel written in 1886 by the visionary and dandy author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle Adam. An improbable and genius meeting of decadent French romantic literature and early science-fiction, this book issued the modern myth of the artificial woman – at first the slave ofpatriarchal desire but eventually the freeing figure underlying cyberfeminism.

This 'andréide' – Hadaly – is built by an idealised Thomas Edison as a perfect lover for his friend Lord Ewald, replacing his beautiful yet shallow girlfriend. The book is awfully misogynist, not only in the idea of building a perfect woman – perfect because obedient –,but all the female characters being vile, mediocre, manipulating, only to be replaced by machines.

This adaptation of L'Eve Future for stage is based on adopting the point of view of the female protagonists of Villiers de l'Isle Adam's book to rewrite the alternative story of this creating a new woman, eventually on an agenda uncontrolled by men.

Alpiner Exorzismus in Begane Grond Festival, Den Haag, 14 > 18 april 2006

Alpiner Exorzismus

dance video, 2004, DV, 61'
conceived and directed by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
production Real Dance Super Sentai
with the support of Nadine & Villa Proudhon

In the meadows, in the forests, in the snowfields, on the summits, by the streams dwell and frolic the little people of the Alp mountains and some inflatable orc on its quest for absolute white. A slow burn twisted fairy tale with askew words, songs and dances.

From the contemplation of the alpine landscapes – the last wild space in the old Europe – spring up unexpected characters, as a new pocket mythology for the deserted Alp mountains. Busy with mysterious tasks, accomplishing meticulous rituals, meeting and communicating in their rare dialect, the Kogan (maintainer of the landscape and inspired rhetorician), the Red Highlander (who strides over the mountain paths to connect his people), the Butterfly Lady (whose dances and songs fills the dreams of all) and many more invite us to penetrate their universe, while a tourist wanders in the snow fields, maybe looking for the sea, carrying an improbable inflatable blue orc.

Adopting sometimes the form of a nature documentary (you will learn on the occasion about the spiteful alpine varan), Alpiner Exorzismus is definitely built on a narrative frame – where dance takes the place of action. The Austrian dancer and choreographer Ines Birkhan interprets all the roles, basing her dance and acting on an intimate relation to the alpine landscapes – also the result of a long performing process.

CASUARIESTRAAT 16, DEN HAAG
14 > 18 april 2006

the wood for the trees in Springdance/Preview > 18/19 april 2006

the wood for the trees

created and performed by Esther Mugambi
dramaturgy & scenography: Bertram Dhellemmes

18/19 april 2006 - 7PM
Theater Kikker
Ganzenmarkt 14, Utrecht NL

For information and reservations:
www.theaterkikker.nl
+31 30 2319666

Anni in 100°, HAU 1 Bühne, Berlin > 02 February 2006

Anni, der weibliche Name des Widerstands

Regie: Daniela Deinhammer
Spiel: Astrid Monet
Ausstattung: Grete Pauler
Sound design: Bertram Dhellemmes
Produktionsleitung: Pierre-Emmanuel Finzi

02/02/2006 - 21.00

HAU 1, Stresemannstrasse 29,10963 Berlin

Der Prosatext „Anni“ ist einer der sieben Berichte aus Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumers 1980 erschienenem Buch „Der weibliche Name des Widerstands“. Unter der Prämisse, die Bedingungen des Widerstandes seien für Frauen anders darzustellen als für Männer, geht die Autorin darin dem Leben und Sterben von sieben Frauen aus Österreich im Nationalsozialismus nach und schlägt dabei eine Brücke in ihr Heute.

Auf zwei unterschiedlichen Ebenen - einer diskursiven und einer emotionalen - erzählt der Text (Annis) Geschichte; unsere Auseinandersetzung damit ist auch der Versuch, Reflexion und Kritik zu inszenieren. Eine Schaupielerin spielt die unterschiedlichen Stimmen und Wir-Chöre, die die Autorin komponiert hat: insbesondere die Stimmen / Figuren von Anni und ihrer Mutter neben dem erzählerischen Ich.

download - programm-100°

The Bush Administration in Hetveem Theater > 7,8 January 2006

The Bush Administration

a project by Robert Steijn

with Robert Steijn, Ines Birkhan, Kyungsun Baek, Michael Schumacher, Ro Hagers
video: Bertram Dhellemmes

with the support of
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
hetveem theater
Studio Entre Nous

Van Diemenstraat 410
1013 CR Amsterdam
t: 020-6260112
f: 020-4223961
veeminfo@hetveemtheater.nl
www.hetveemtheater.nl

Mythen für die Zukunft 1 in Cabaret Renz until January 10th 2006

prolongation of the exhibition Mythen für die Zukunft 1

3 video installations by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes
Cabaret Renz, Wien, December 9th 2005 > January 10th 2006

Cabaret Renz, Zirkusgasse 50 1020 Wien, Austria

performance in WUK > 2 december 2005

dance improvisation by Ines Birkhan

this performance is part of the
WILDE MISCHUNG festival in WUK Friday
2nd December 2005 - 07:00 pm
Amanda Sage's atelier in WUK
Währinger Straße 59A 1090 Wien

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen / a performance by Ines Birkhan / WUK Vienna > 3 December 2005

Den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen

multimedia performance

dance, choreography, text: Ines Birkhan
music, video: Bertram Dhellemmes

den kreisrunden Todengwalzer tanzen is a dance/text performance.
It is a story for coming generations.
I want to tell it to my unborn child.

This performance is constructing a story about
potential future, about the changes of bodies
and their environment, about physicality in our
society, about a system dominated by techno-science.

You could call it a science-fiction story,
a fable or a philosophical tale.

Mythen für die Zukunft 1 / Cabaret Renz Vienna > December 2005

Mythen für die Zukunft 1

3 video installations by Ines Birkhan & Bertram Dhellemmes

Cabaret Renz, Wien, 9>31 December 2005

The 3 video installations composing Mythen für die Zukunft 1 are based on the principle of the video novel, where the multimedia process of combined images, sounds and texts allows an exploration of an ‘extended field of literature’.

They intend to propose a complexity of perception that requires the full involvement of the audience, as well as openness at different intellectual and emotional levels, thus renewing the fundamental experience of reading.

Literature and poetry being the historical main means of myths transmission make writing the proper medium to establish new values and new figures, even those of our technological era.
New medias that were prophesized to endanger writing proved themselves a precious support to it, and their open aesthetics give space to multiplicity of tangent and interlaced experiences.

the wood for the trees / esther mugambi

the wood for the trees / for a few seconds maybe you really were yourself / melkweg theater amsterdam 8/9/11/12 october

the wood for the trees

created and performed by Esther Mugambi
dramaturgy & scenography: Bertram Dhellemmes
advisor: Barbara Gene




for a few seconds maybe you really were yourself

created and performed by Adva Zakai
advisor: Marijke Hoogenboom
research collaborators: Katja Dreyer, David Hendrickx

a double-bill evening produced by Danswerkplaats Amsterdam
performed at the Melkweg Theater Lijnbaansgracht 234 Amsterdam
8/9/11/12 October 8.30 pm reservation 020 531 8181 www.melkweg.nl

one point of departure, two directions, two solos
camouflage, the moment of absorption and disappearance
to be visible, to be seen, found, unmasked
to hide, to be else
someone else
something
to impersonate, dissolve
to be saturated
to be disowned, de-skinned
to be concealed