ANTONIA BAEHR /2006
Photo Marc Domage
Antonia Baehr is an artist-choreographer, performer and film-maker. In 1994 she founded the Berlin company Ex machinis. She studied cinema and visual arts at the Berlin Art Academy under Valie Export in 1996. She was the co-programmer of the Labor Sonor experimental music and performance workshop which took place at the KuLe of Berlin from 2001 to 2003, co-presenter of the Radioriff festival which took place at Austland (Berlin) in December 2003, and founder member of the series Fernwärme im Ausland – The Making of Performing Arts. She is the producer for the dancer Werner Hirsch, the musician and choreographer Henri Fleur and the composer Henry Wilt. At the invitation of the Laboratoires in April 2006, she presented Larry Peacock, an elecro-pop musical performance questioning notions of gender and identity.
Merci
danse
December 2006 at 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Within the framework of the 100 Dessus Dessous Festival
Following an invitation from the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Antonia Baehr intends, through her project Merci, to extend her research into control and its representation and perception, a theme already explored by the choreographer in previous projects. Merciis developed around two working times. The first stage is constructed around a duo with the dancer Valérie Castan : two people develop the material through a permutation of the roles of director and actor, and interact via an obvious set of rules. From this founding exercise which took place at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in the spring of 2006, two distinct projects became crystallized, one in the name of Valérie Castan, the other in the name of Antonia Baehr. These two projects subsequently divided, Valérie Castan’s following its own course and thus breaking out of the framework of the proposition. Antonia Baehr’s project was connected to the interpretation of a score developed in a duo in Aubervilliers in the autumn of 2006. The structure at the base of the work of the first stage now becomes the content of the project : the two artists command and execute each other’s projections, they direct and are directed. Beyond a fundamental questioning of games of power and submission, it is equally one of the basic ingredients of the western theatre tradition that is under scrutiny here : the question of imitation, of mimesis illuminated from a (post)-identity or queer point of view, bypassing the binary opposition between acting (role, character, costume, the actor’s psychological approach, etc.) and non-acting (the accomplishment of tasks and daily movements in everyday dress). An opportunity to measure how lived experience, autobiographical elements or a certain type of activism may inform theatre practice and theory, and vice-versa. Conception / Direction : Antonia Baehr. In collaboration with Valérie Castan Co-production : the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (France) Parc de La Villette within the framework of Résidences d’Artistes 2006 (France), fabrik Potsdam (Germany), Ausland Berlin (Germany) supported by the National Performance Network with funds from the German Federal Cultural Foundation for the programme "Dance Plan Germany". Contact: make up Productions /
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Conception / Réalisation : Antonia Baehr. En collaboration avec : Valérie Castan Coproduction : Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (F), Parc de La Villette dans le cadre des Résidences d’Artistes 2006 (F), fabrik Potsdam (D), Ausland Berlin (D) Soutenu par National Performance Network avec les fonds provenant de la German Federal Cultural Foundation au titre du programme "Dance Plan Germany". Contact: make up Productions /
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