Four remarks on the history of dance
Endangered Human Vol.1
WORKS
The performance Four remarks on the history of dance is the first Volume of Endangered Human Movements, focusing on human movement practices, which have been cultivated for centuries all over the world.
The first Volume of this long-term research deals with dances that were not conceived to create a spectacle for a select audience, but were practiced in commonality, articulating reciprocal relations with the environment, other life forms, and the unknown.
The Four remarks on the history of dance are meant to be artistic and discursive contributions for the expansion of a narrative that has been historically ethnocentric.
The performance presents a plurality of dance forms from all five continents, – dedicated to the harvest, the soil, the rain, the fire or the wind – and brings them on stage as ready-mades, exploring the political and environmental potential of movement, in times of advancing privatisation and depletion of natural ressources.
Dates
Credits
Artistic Direction
Amanda Piña & Daniel Zimmermann
Jana Jevtovic, Alexandra Mabes, Amanda Piña, Yusimi Moya Rodriguez & Guests
Choreographers
Ainu (Aynu), Ashanti, Bororo of the Paraguay River, Dessana-Tucano,Mixtecs-Mexicans, Nahuas-Mexicans, Navajo, Sakkudei, Tabiteuea Islanders-Kiribati Republic,Tenek, Trobriand Islanders, Vavhenda, Wodaabe & Yup’ik
Choreography Assistance & Movement Notoation
Anne Megier
Movements Download from Ethnographic Films
Amanda Piña & Lina Maria Venegas
Composition & Live Percussion
Shayna Dunkelman
Soundtrack Film
Mali Svet By Peptalk
Light
Victor Durán
Dramaturgical Adviser
Angela Vadori
Dioramas
Gianna Prein, Marie Shamboeck & Benedikt Steiner
Costumes
Francesca Aldegani
Costumes Assistance
Constanza Brandizzi
Live Camera
Daniel Zimmermann
Camera
Gerald Kerkletz
Photos
Kat Reynolds/ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival
Management Consulting & Editing
Marie-Christine Barrata-Dragono
Production
nadaproductions.at
Dance Research & Production Manager
Sarah Blumenfeld
Co-Production
ImpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival
The Project Endangered Human Movements is supported by
deSingel international arts campus (Antwerp), NAVE – Creation and Residence Center (Santiago de Chile) & Tanzquartier Wien
Supported by
BKA Kunst und Kultur – Bundeskanzerlamt Österreich, BMfB – Bundesministerium für Bewegungsangelegenheiten, Foundation for Contemporary Arts – Granted by Emergency Grant & MA7 – Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Thanks to
Ramon Andres, Michael Carter, Paula Chavez, Nase Chiriap, Gabrielle Cram, Carlos Fos, Axel Fussi, Georg Grünberg, Nicole Haitzinger, Mariana Huepe, Marta Huepe, Leut, nadaLokal, Meinhard Rauchensteiner, Rio Rutzinger, Bernhard Schorner, Michael Staudigl & Josef Wukowits