alpine agriculture meets contemporary performance art
In “field work”, Hannah Schillinger and Aaron Lang reflect on European agricultural fieldwork through the medium of contemporary dance. Like fieldwork, their dance practice is characterized by a careful cultivation of space, time and matter. Together they kaleidoscopically explore movements and entanglements between the two practices such as physical labour, social class, production and reciprocity, rhythms and rites, co-creation and collaboration. In a dreamy, surrealistic landscape between sculptural painting and simulation, the performers in costumes and with props by Louis Caspar Schmitt set out in search of a queer and feminist entrance into Alpine culture and folklore that does not cling to representations of the past, but rather develops them in a proactive way, reconfigures and imagines possible futures. With lighting design by Vito Walter and sound by Madelyn Byrd, “field work” creates a world in which nature, humans and technology strive for balance, in which the historical and the futuristic interweave, and which bursts stereotypes by sketching out a new approach to cultural heritage.
Credits:
Konzept, Choreographie & Tanz: Hannah Schillinger
Co-Choreographie & Tanz: Aaron Lang
Sound: Madelyn Byrd aka slowfoam
Bühne und Kostüm: Louis Caspar Schmitt
Licht: Vito Walter
Produktion: Laura Manz
Partner:
HochX München
TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA
Choreographisches Centrum Heidelberg
Tanztendenz München
Studio 2.2 Berlin
DOCKART Berlin
Förderer:
Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat
Bayerischer Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz e.V. – BLZT
Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse München
Choreographisches Centrum Heidelberg
DOCKART Berlin