Alexandra Bachzetsis on ›Escape Act‹ at PACT Zollverein

17.10.2018
by PACT

How do we evaluate what is real and what is not? And to what extent is everyday life a performance? In the age of mass produced visual media and steadfast obsession with preserving the youthful body, it is almost impossible to distinguish between appearance and existence. In her latest work ›Escape Act‹, Alexandra Bachzetsis turns her attention with subtle irony to the construction of authenticity and investigates its manifestations in everyday and pop culture.

Quoting in her choreography performances of Vogueing, YouTube tutorials for “posing” and “realness” and Oskar Schlemmer’s treatment of forms in Das Triadische Ballett, she plays with both magic and scientific laws of perception and articulates fantasy as a choreographic horizon, as a possible existence between the established canon of corporeal codes and low-culture body languages, between improvisation and norm, between difference and repetition.

›Escape Act‹
Fr 19.10.18 20 H
Sa 20.10.18 20 H

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Alma Söderberg on ›Entangled Phrases‹ (March 08 & 09 at PACT)

Calm perfectionism, poetic precision and sensual lightness characterize the works of Alma Söderberg, who most recently presented the world premiere of her solo ›Deep Etude‹ at PACT. In her latest work ›Entangled Phrases‹ she now continues her exploration of sound and movement, polyrhythm and polyphony through an axiomatic practice of 'listening to movement‘.

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Interview towards the project ›Whistle While You Work‹

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Interview

Fang Yun Lo & Hanna Linn Ernst about ›UNSOLVED‹ at PACT Zollverein

Taking an existing Taiwanese family home as their departure point, choreographer Fang Yun Lo and her artistic association Polymer DMT contemplate the construction of cultural identity and its ephemerality within both personal and broader political contexts. At the interview Fang Yun Lo & Hanna Linn Ernst talk about the creation and realisation of their premiere of ›UNSOLVED‹ at PACT.

Documentation / Interview

fieldworks about fieldworks

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Interview

Alma Söderberg about ›Deep Etude‹ at PACT Zollverein

In ›Deep Etude‹, the Swedish choreographer and singer Alma Söderberg develops an in-depth study of the embodiment of rhythm centring around the idea of polyrhythm. By layering recorded electronic sounds, live voice and dance, she creates a complex composition in which our perceptions of listening and viewing seem to be inextricably linked. As movement and sound exchange roles, the foreground and background shift, the dance becomes the music’s backtrack while the movement excavates the sound and brings it to the surface. ›Deep Etude‹ is a fascinating study of synergies, a composition of physical practices, a multilayered object distilled from skills.

Interview

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Interview

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Sie hat Kirschen auf alle nur erdenklichen Arten zu Tode kommen lassen, Naturkatastrophen nachgekocht oder Gebrauchsgegenstände des Theaterbetriebs zum Tanzen gebracht: Immer wieder lässt Eva Meyer-Keller in ihren international gezeigten Arbeiten Strukturen und Phänomene der Natur oder des Alltags auf choreographische Anordnungen treffen.

Interview

Mette Ingvartsen about ›21 pornographies‹ at PACT Zollverein

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Documentation / Interview

›Episoden des Südens - The other way around‹ 15.09.17, PACT Zollverein (Essen)

Trailer von Freitag, 15.09.2017 Dialoge mit Objekten mit Ligia Lewis, Kelly Gillespie, Neo Muyanga, Christoph Bieber, Arnbjörg Maria Danielsen Lecture Konzert von Neo Muyanga Perspektiven – the other way around mit Ligia Lewis & Kelly Gillespie

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Alexandra Bachzetsis on ›Escape Act‹ at PACT Zollverein

›Escape Act‹
Fr 19.10.18 20 H
Sa 20.10.18 20 H

To the e vent

Alma Söderberg on ›Entangled Phrases‹ (March 08 & 09 at PACT)

Interview towards the project ›Whistle While You Work‹

Fang Yun Lo & Hanna Linn Ernst about ›UNSOLVED‹ at PACT Zollverein

fieldworks about fieldworks

Alma Söderberg about ›Deep Etude‹ at PACT Zollverein

Tanz muss nicht immer Bewegung sein

Eva Meyer-Keller über ›Some Significance‹ bei PACT Zollverein

Mette Ingvartsen about ›21 pornographies‹ at PACT Zollverein

›Episoden des Südens - The other way around‹ 15.09.17, PACT Zollverein (Essen)

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Alexandra Bachzetsis on ›Escape Act‹ at PACT Zollverein

›Escape Act‹ Fr 19.10.18 20 H Sa 20.10.18 20 H

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Alma Söderberg on ›Entangled Phrases‹ (March 08 & 09 at PACT)

Interview towards the project ›Whistle While You Work‹

Fang Yun Lo & Hanna Linn Ernst about ›UNSOLVED‹ at PACT Zollverein

fieldworks about fieldworks

Alma Söderberg about ›Deep Etude‹ at PACT Zollverein

Tanz muss nicht immer Bewegung sein

Eva Meyer-Keller über ›Some Significance‹ bei PACT Zollverein

Mette Ingvartsen about ›21 pornographies‹ at PACT Zollverein

›Episoden des Südens - The other way around‹ 15.09.17, PACT Zollverein (Essen)

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›Escape Act‹
Fr 19.10.18 20 H
Sa 20.10.18 20 H

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