25 – 28 Oct 2022
In cooperation with Institute of Dance Arts (IDA)
Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Oberösterreich, Linz (Austria)
Koordination: Rose Breuss & Damián Cortés Alberti
Public Rehearsal + Workshop: Nijinsky’s Suitcase
with: Rainer Krenstetter, Claudia Jeschke & Constantin Georgescu
The dancer Vaslav Nijinsky left behind written material of notable quantity and quality that fuse his vision for dance and choreography, his professionalism in shaping his creative powers and transferring them via writing and drawing. The so far unpublished material is related to a suitcase filled with auratic Nijinsky materials, La Valise de Nijinsky, which his widow Romola had deposited in the Paris Bibliothèque de l’Opéra after Nijinsky’s death in 1950.Like every suitcase Nijinsky‘s Valise operates as a container for items considered valuable as well as a receptacle that references journeys, encounters, familiarities, and alienations. The Valise, thus, becomes a ‘time media archive’, in which ‘present times’ correlate with ‘absent times’. The collaboration of researchers (Rainer Krenstetter, dancer, Constantin Georgescu, media artist, and Claudia Jeschke, historian) will especially focus on Nijinsky’s transcriptions presented in and around the Valise by reading, performing, and digitizing Nijinsky‘s notation materials as multivalent scores
that merge layers of historicities, then-actualities, innovations, optionalities.
Lecture: Le Bal de Paris – and the wired dancer
with: Andreas Backoefer
In virtual reality (VR), by means of computer-linked sensory-activation equipment the individual is ‘plugged’ into an artificial environment where the physical sensations of an alternative verisimilar world are induced; what reality can’t be, virtual reality promises to be. The new production Le Bal de Paris by the Spanish choreographer Blanca Li goes way beyond anything experienced yet in VR dance. Once the participants get past the complicated tech setup, wearing a backpack, headset, wrist and ankle sensors, it’s like stepping into an enormous ballroom with hundreds of choreographed guests. The audience has the opportunity to participate and dance, interacting with live dancers. Slavoj Žižek, in his book Hegel in a wired brain, asks the question “What will happen when the human mind can actually wire itself to a machine?” LeBal de Paris’ immersive VR experience explores the situation when dancers are ‘wired’ together.
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