Christine Gaigg / Bernhard Lang / Winfried Ritsch / Philipp Harnoncourt
Machine shop #1

herbst-Eröffnung


Opening, Dance / Ballet / Premiere

Dates
24.–25.9.2010

Location
Helmut-List-Halle
Graz

Production specifics
UA

Auftragswerk steirischer herbst

Projektsponsor Think! & AVL Cultural Foundation

Projektpartner Java Cafe

A limited space in which machines make up their own world, that we can observe and analyse, but not influence; whose systems we hear, see and feel, but do not understand. A world to which we are exposed.

Together, choreographer Christine Gaigg, composer Bernhard Lang, computer musician Winfried Ritsch, and light designer and stage designer Philipp Harnoncourt create a cross-genre art work specially for the Helmut List Hall for the opening of steirischer herbst, whose individual elements are connected by invisible threads: the shop, the machines and the people become a meta-machine whose rules determine the processes.

At twelve stations, arranged in series and each consisting of an acoustic panel and an automaton piano, twelve dancers perform in a feedback situation of movement and self-generating sounds. The result is indirect music: the steps on the acoustic panel are translated by a computer and transferred to the keys of the automaton piano, then played back and reinterpreted with human possibilities. In the repetition, the movements formed from the sound material change: new rhythms arise and challenge the dancers’ creativity and precision.

The twelve units correspond to each other, at times soloistic, at others choral, synchronous or contrapuntal – but always unpredictable in sequence and spatial distribution.

The machine pianos have an inherent technical virtuosity of which a human player would be incapable; the dancers then transform – equally masterfully – the machine-generated rhythms into complex, wild-flung or gently suggested adventures in movement. The juxta¬position and co-operation of man and machine is venturesome and full of friction.

Konzept / Idee: Christine Gaigg
Konzept / Idee: Bernhard Lang
Konzept / Idee: Winfried Ritsch
Konzept / Idee: Philipp Harnoncourt
Choreografie: Christine Gaigg
Komponistin / Komponist: Bernhard Lang
Lichtregie: Philipp Harnoncourt
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Winfried Ritsch
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Sara Canini
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Ella Clarke
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Alexander Deutinger
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Robert Jackson
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Milla Koistinen
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Anna Majder
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Asher O´Gorman
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Eva-Maria Schaller
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Magi Foraste Serra
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Veronika Zott

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