On the 23rd and 24th of May 2008 the solo unsichtbarst by Anna Huber will reopen at the Dampfzentrale Bern. The piece premiered in May 1998 in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin and was also performed in Berlin at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer and the Atrium of the German Guggenheim. After numerous guest performances at festivals in Tokyo, New Delhi, Manila, Singapore, Biennale de la Danse Lyon, International Dance Festival Kalamata, KKL Luzern, among others, Anna Huber will rework her solo ten years later and dance it for the first time in the Dampfzentrale Bern's Kesselhaus.
23. and 24. May 2008, 20:00, Dampfzentrale Bern, Kessselhaus
Info: www. dampfzentrale.ch - Ticktes: www.starticket.ch (print at home) 0900 325 325 (Starticket.CHF 1.19/Min.)
concept, choreography, dance: Anna Huber
stage, light: Thilo Reuther
music: Wolfgang Bley-Borkowski
costumes: Inge Zysk
technic: Jochen Massar
seeing and being seen
who is looking at whom
show/ perform/ hide
be displayed
deform forms
mirror images
wishful dreams/ nightmares/ visual spaces
The solo dance piece unsichtbarst looks into the situation of performing and spectating, seeing and being seen. Who is looking at whom?
Displayed on a mirrored floor and observed continually from all sides, the dancing body evolves into a living sculpture that transforms itself, questions itself repeatedly, must be defined repeatedly and loses itself repeatedly. Can form dissolve? How much control do we require to not lose ourselves? Layer by layer the flowing borders between private person, public person, stage personality and art object are made visible. How much do we show of ourselves? How unprotected, how vulnerable can we present ourselves? What remains behind the image that we pretend to maintain for others and ourselves?
"Rarely have the extremes and contradictions been unified in a dancer in such a fascinating way. (...) with a presence that subtly feeds the strict aesthetics and formal perfection with an inner fire and unpredictability. Anna Huber's pieces construct and deconstruct, make concrete and dissipate forms of movement and their message. Emptiness becomes concrete form and vice versa. The body is space, the space is the body." züritipp Tagesanzeiger, Eva Bucher
Anna Huber has shot into the ranks of the most unusual and interesting choreographers of the contemporary Berlin dance scene. Berliner Zeitung, Michaela Schlagenwerth
Production: annahuber.compagnie.
Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, Schweizer Kulturstiftung PRO HELVETIA, Zürich.
In co-operation with Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof / Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Dampfzentrale Bern, annahuber.compagnie is supported by Kultur Stadt Bern, Amt für Kultur des Kanton Bern, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung.
www.annahuber.net
23. and 24. May 2008, 20:00, Dampfzentrale Bern, Kessselhaus
Info: www. dampfzentrale.ch - Ticktes: www.starticket.ch (print at home) 0900 325 325 (Starticket.CHF 1.19/Min.)
concept, choreography, dance: Anna Huber
stage, light: Thilo Reuther
music: Wolfgang Bley-Borkowski
costumes: Inge Zysk
technic: Jochen Massar
seeing and being seen
who is looking at whom
show/ perform/ hide
be displayed
deform forms
mirror images
wishful dreams/ nightmares/ visual spaces
The solo dance piece unsichtbarst looks into the situation of performing and spectating, seeing and being seen. Who is looking at whom?
Displayed on a mirrored floor and observed continually from all sides, the dancing body evolves into a living sculpture that transforms itself, questions itself repeatedly, must be defined repeatedly and loses itself repeatedly. Can form dissolve? How much control do we require to not lose ourselves? Layer by layer the flowing borders between private person, public person, stage personality and art object are made visible. How much do we show of ourselves? How unprotected, how vulnerable can we present ourselves? What remains behind the image that we pretend to maintain for others and ourselves?
"Rarely have the extremes and contradictions been unified in a dancer in such a fascinating way. (...) with a presence that subtly feeds the strict aesthetics and formal perfection with an inner fire and unpredictability. Anna Huber's pieces construct and deconstruct, make concrete and dissipate forms of movement and their message. Emptiness becomes concrete form and vice versa. The body is space, the space is the body." züritipp Tagesanzeiger, Eva Bucher
Anna Huber has shot into the ranks of the most unusual and interesting choreographers of the contemporary Berlin dance scene. Berliner Zeitung, Michaela Schlagenwerth
Production: annahuber.compagnie.
Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, Schweizer Kulturstiftung PRO HELVETIA, Zürich.
In co-operation with Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof / Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Dampfzentrale Bern, annahuber.compagnie is supported by Kultur Stadt Bern, Amt für Kultur des Kanton Bern, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung.
www.annahuber.net
