Eszter Salamon

In ›Tales of the Bodiless‹ artist Eszter Salamon tells of a world without human bodies. In her four stories of immaterialness, other forms of existence come to the fore: it might be dogs, who dare to evolve without human intervention, or it might be unknown bodiless forms of existence that are trying out new ways of insemination. Salamon opens up a complex audio-cosmos using a virtuoso composition of sounds, light, space and voices in which well-known apocalyptic visions combine with new ideas. The audience becomes the last ›bodied‹ spectators in a world in which visual perception dissolves into an acoustic event.

Direction: Eszter Salamon Concept, text & dramaturgy: Eszter Salamon & Bojana Cvejic 
Music: Cédric Dambrain, Terre Thaemlitz 
Musical support: Berno Odo Polzer
Sound design: Peter Böhm
Light and video concept: Sylvie Garot 
Video direction and video concept assistance: Bertrand Schacre 
Technical director: Thalie Lurault 
Audio-recordings: Bart AgaThe voices in order of appearance: Eszter Salamon, Johan Leysen, Jan Ritsema, Eszter Salamon, Sasa Asentic, Bojana Cvejic, Sasa Asentic, Joanna Bailie, Terre Thaemlitz, Tracee Westmoreland, Chrysa Parkinson, Gérald Kurdian, Michael Schmidt, Ragna Aurich, Eleanor Bauer, Polina Akhmetzyanova, Sayaka Kaiwa, Bérengère Bodin, Patricia Barakat, David Helbich a.o.
Bodies: Saša Asentić, Eszter Salamon

Production and organisation: Alexandra Wellensiek /Botschaft Gbr, extrapole / Agnès Henry
Co-producers: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Ircam/Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hebbel am Ufer / Tanz im August 2011 (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Les Subsistances (Lyon)

›Tales of the Bodiless‹ is a co-producion with NXTSTP supported by the Cultural Programme of the European Union and funded by the Federal Endowment of the Arts as well as the funding body SACD Musique de Scène

Supported by: Kaaitheater (Brussels), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk), Q-02 (Brussels), PAF (Saint-Erme)
Research residence: projet 6M1L-Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon

Studio support: CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape

Touring

12.10.2013, TRAFO, Budapest (HU)11.10.2013, TRAFO, Budapest (HU)25.01.2013, Le Vivat, Armentières (FR)22.05.2012, Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, Göteborg (SE)21.04.2012, Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)19.04.2012, Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)11.04.2012, Tanzquartier, Wien (AT)04.02.2012, Le Phénix, Valenciennes (FR)21.01.2012, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)20.01.2012, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)19.11.2011, Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)18.11.2011, Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)17.11.2011, Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)01.10.2011, steirischer herbst festival, Graz (AT)30.09.2011, steirischer herbst festival, Graz (AT)29.09.2011, steirischer herbst festival, Graz (AT)19.08.2011, Internationales Tanzfest-Tanz im August 2011, Berlin (DE)18.08.2011, Internationales Tanzfest-Tanz im August 2011, Berlin (DE)11.06.2011, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Festival Agora, Paris (FR)10.06.2011, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Festival Agora, Paris (FR)23.05.2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)22.05.2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)21.05.2011, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)