Hello dancers,
We need four dancers (male and female) with strong modern technique and
professional experience for a special project in October. The short piece
will be interactive -- each dancer has a solo using a different interactive
technology (such as electrodes or Eyecon system), followed by a short group
dance.
We will cover all travel expenses, plus you will be paid.
If you have experience with a major company, and can't make Monday's
audition in Munich, then please call or e-mail me anyway.
Thanks! Please tell your friends, we are quite desperate. This whole gig
came up SHORT NOTICE!
Best regards,
Robert Wechsler
Audition
is Monday, September 25, 16:00 IWANSON-SCHULE Adi-maislinger-str.12
(or call or e-mail for an appointment: see below)
Work period
30 Sept - 5 October and 16 October - 22 October
rehearsals and performance take place in München.
Palindrome Inter-media Performance Group
Palindrome was a dance company... based in New York City from 1982-1990,
and in Nürnberg, Germany since then. But it is hard to say what we have
become. We still work with human movement in live performance situations,
but in certain ways our work now goes beyond dance. We work with computers
exploring the possibilities of interactive media -- the ways movement can
create its own music, for example. We also look at ways that sounds can
control lighting, basically any way that one art form can directly control
another. We are interested in the spaces between art forms.
In one piece, for example, we play orchestral instruments virtually --
through our movements in space. Video cameras around the stage area detect
the dancers' movements. The information is sent to a computer where,
assuming we move in the right way, the correct musical notes are triggered.
In other pieces, body-worn electrodes permit stage lighting and
projections to be controlled by the muscle contractions of the dancer. In
still other parts of the show, audience members become the performers.
Music and projections are created or controlled by volunteers or by the
crowd en masse.
Our work concerns interaction. Once, say 10,000 years ago, performances
were considerably more interactive than they are today. In part, because
of the cheap availability of recording, transmission and reproduction
technologies, interactivity has all but vanished in the performing arts.
Generally speaking, that which occurs on a stage today has become fixed and
utterly repeatable. Music is almost always recorded, while the role of the
audience has been reduced to watching and then clapping at the end.
Palindrome has appeared at leading festivals throughout Europe and the
United States, including the Berlin Transmediale, ZKM-Karlsruhe, The Place
Theatre in London, Gasteig Munich, Arizona State University (IDAT'99),
Connecticut College, American University, University of Colorado, UCLA,
Temple University, Ludwigsforum Aachen, STEPS Festival Zurich, the
Washington Square Theater in New York, the ISIS Congress in the Washington
DC, as well as venues in San Francisco, Oslo, Prague, Budapest, Vienna,
Salzburg, and virtually every major city in Germany. For choreographic and
new media innovation, Palindrome, its artists and engineers have been
selected for numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Facing
America Award, the German Innovation Prize of 1999 and first prize for new
media at Comtec Art2000. Grants have come from the Marshal Fund of Norway,
Siemens AG, and the National Endowment for the Arts while on-going support
is being provided by the city of Nuremberg, and the state of Bavaria, Germany.
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Robert Wechsler
Artistic Director
PALINDROME Inter-media Performance Group
Johannisstr. 42
90419 Nürnberg
fon: 49 911 39 74 72
fax: 49 911 377 8311
mobile: 49 179 511 0400
complete information, including scheduled touring, photographs, and so on
can be found under: http://www.palindrome.de
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