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| My work, and thus my fascination and interest, is devoted to the body in space and time. It is always a body that is far removed from the civilized, quotidian body. It is a body searching for body shapes, a body that is the subject/object of its own examination. This body performs a search in the "now" of the theater space. The dancers' decisions to keep what they find or to throw it away are what creates the piece. Philipp Gehmacher Philipp Gehmacher grapples with the issue of the body as part of ourselves, as "hardware" that we can never leave behind – it is both the form and the content of his works. Gehmacher elicits essential and honest behavior from the body without falling back on an already existent repertoire of movement. In Gehmacher's works, the audience is an integral part of the performance, rather than merely passively "reading" the body and the events on stage. The audience "experiences" the performing bodies, opens itself to what they create and draws meaning out of these experiences. In the trio, Holes and Bodies, Gehmacher's primary interest lies in the relationship between time and the body: slowness and speed, remembering and forgetting. He allows movement to unfold on the stage, manipulating and processing and thus recreating it. |
April 25/26/27 8:00 p.m. Philipp Gehmacher good enough Holes and Bodies (German premiere) good enough Concept: Philipp Gehmacher, Choreography/Performance: Rainer Knupp, Philipp Gehmacher, Music: Pedro Gomez-Egana, Lighting Design: Simon MacColl, Philipp Gehmacher Co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien, supported by London Arts, Österreichisches Bundeskanzleramt/Kunst, Dans in Kortrijk, and Laban Centre London Holes and Bodies Choreography: Philipp Gehmacher, Dance: Rainer Knupp, Philipp Gehmacher, Sioned Huws, Music: Pedro Gomez-Egana, Lighting Design: Philipp Gehmacher Supported by London Arts, Moving East, The Place, The Jerwood Space, and Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund 2000 Philipp Gehmacher's guest performance is supported by the APAP - Advancing Performing Arts Project II, which in turn is funded by the Culture 2000 Framework program of the European Commission. Additional support was provided by dietheater Wien, Jacksons Lane Zone 3, Jerwood Foundation, London Arts, and Wien Kultur.    |
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| The duo for two male dancers, good enough, captivates with its clarity and precision and is simultaneously intimate and perplexing. In this performance installation, the question, "How can a relationship be portrayed on stage?" is answered with a story that makes the audience into accomplices. Austrian choreographer and performer, Philipp Gehmacher, trained at the London Contemporary Dance School and the Laban Centre London. After obtaining his degree, he worked and taught at the Laban Centre for many years. He received the coveted New Choreographers Award (London Arts) in 1997 for his first solo piece the mumbling fish. His solo-piece, in the absence, was performed all over Europe and is touring this year with Dance Roads 2002. "Holes and Bodies" (2001) and "good enough" (2001) have been performed in Vienna, London, Madrid, Kortijk and Salzburg. Philipp Gehmacher won the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award in 2000 and the Jerwood Choreography Award in 2001. He lives and works in London and Vienna. The solo work, in the absence, will be performed on February 28 and March 2, 2002 at the sophiensaele in Berlin as part of Dance Roads 2002. |
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