CLEVER Christmas Delivery

CLEVER Christmas Performance at your home or company celebration!

 

We are the CLEVER TEAM – a performing duo known from Viennese stages and from the unique skills that one could describe as: how to make something out of nothing.

This year we’ve decided to break our theater routine. We have the pleasure to offer you an unusual and intimate Christmas showing that is specially designed to be presented at your home, garden, office, restaurant or Christmas party.

CLEVER TEAM would like to bring you into a glamorous Christmas mood. We’re working like Glühwein but without any harmful side-effects!

Surprise yourself and your friends with a clever and witty performance filled out with stories, homemade visual effects, Christmas meditation and heart-warming live music. You can offer us as a present to the ones you love or the ones you work with. Or simply enjoy the luxury that this time the theater will comes to you!

We are available for you between the 15th November and 21st December 2013.

Performance duration: 30 minutes

For booking and further information visit our website:
http://christmasdelivery.weebly.com/

 

"DeSacre!" by Christine Gaigg/2nd Nature at Muffathalle in Munich

On 6th October "DeSacre!" by Christine Gaigg was presented at Muffathalle in Munich within the frame of interdisciplinary symposium: "Sacre. A victim in artistic and social context"

As I wrote in the previous post, "The rite of spring" became my leading trademark as a dancer. This time few words about "DeSacre!" by Christine Gaigg...

DeSacre!

The complexity of an art action is high, but also or precisely when the action only lasts for 40 seconds. If the complexity exceeds the possibilities of a society a sore point has probably been hit.
In DeSacre! The choreographer Christine Gaigg interweaves the latest Pussy Riot art scandal of 21 Februaryy 2012 with scenes from Le Sacre du Printemps, which was premièred in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky and Vaclav Nijinsky in Paris. The clash of the two art works points out their motives as well as their social implications.
In the architecture of the St Joseph’s Chapel, which was built in 1772 over several storeys of the Vienna Hofburg and the present-day presidential chancellery, the aspects thrown up also address questions to our society: What is desecration? To what excent does the Pussy Riot action go beyond pure provocation? Is everything answered with the argument of the sacrosanct?

CONCEPT, DIRECTION: Christine Gaigg
DANCE: Alexander Deutinger, Radek Hewelt, Marta Navaridas, Petr Ochvat, Anna Prokopová, Eva Maria Schaller, Veronika Zott
TEXT, TALK: Christine Gaigg, Erich Klein
STAGE: Philipp Harnoncourt
LIGHT: Jan Wagner
MUSIC ADAPTION: Florian Bogner
MUSIC: Igor Strawinsky Le Sacre du Printemps (quotes)
CHOREOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS: Vaclav Nijinsky, Pussy Riot
COSTUME: Dorothea Nicolai
ASSISTENCE: Iris Raffetseder
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A COPRODUCTION by Tanzquartier Wien and 2nd nature
2nd nature is SUPPORTED by MA 7 – Cultural department of the city fo Vienna

Premiere: April 24, 2013
Josephskapelle, Hofburg, Vienna

"Le Sacre" by Dada von Bzdülöw at Beijing Fringe Festival

"Le Sacre" was presented on 27 and 28 September in Beijing at theatre Fringe Festival.

In the last period "The Rite of Spring" seems to be my main signature as a performer. First there was Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw with "Le Sacre"...

The intriguing spectacle by Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre was played in Beijing, closing this year’s theatre Fringe Festival. Has the lost, original version of “The Rite of Spring” by Stravinski after a hundred years been finally brought into the daylight?

According to the libretto created by Leszek Bzdyl that’s exactly what happened. The play script tells about a great discovery made by the researcher and professor of the Massachusett Bard Collage, Jeff Perec, who, while cataloguing documents donated post mortem to the Collage by the descendants of Mikolaj Roerich, has found pieces of correspondence between Roerich and Stravinski, the creators of “The Rite of Spring” – the mythical ballet which, at the beginning of the 20^th century, turned upside down the concept of contemporary music-body movement performance. In their letters the librettist and the composer mentioned the original version of “The Rite of Spring”, it’s radical concepts and ways of expression, and about the significant philosophical and musical differences compared to the spectacle staged in 1913 in Paris.

The performance by Dada von Bzdülöw is a dialogue with the creators of “The Rite of Spring”, a dialogue about breaking the chains of conventionalities. Conventionalities, which once broken and shattered form a new quality, just to become a conventionality again. The music used in the play written by Mikolaj Trzaska, is also a dispute with, as Trzaska said „greatly written, but (…) pompous” musical work of “The Rite of Spring”.

Following the “Invisible Duets”, “Le Sacre” was the second play, performed by Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre in China, and just as the “...Duets” was very well received both by the audience and the critics. The project of Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre’s participation in the Fringe Festival was carried out thanks to cooperation of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Embassy of Poland in Beijing.

Links:

http://beijing.mfa.gov.pl/en/news/0_le_sacre__staged_in_beijing

The Old Testament According to The Loose Collective

On 6 & 7 September I had the pleasure to join The Loose Collective in their last production "The Old Testament According to The Loose Collective" in the performances at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf

About The Old Testament According to The Loose Collective"

Absurd and comical dialogues alternate with whimsical group choreographies, snottily bawled accusations, enthusiastic dance sequences and the praising of the Promised Land with baroque choir parts. In its latest work the international collective lustfully approaches the Old Testament - with retro whigs from the Sixties, screaming electric guitars, choir and dance. The piece for five performers turns out to be an unconventional collage of parts of this world text, converted into dance, music and vocals. Adapted to the characteristics of various musical styles as electro pop, reggae and diaspora post punk, and with a good dose of irony and cynicism, the collective juggles with biblical quotes and carves out the actuality of the religious texts. The brutality and depravity of man, the futility of all aspirations as well as the utopia and the absurdness of life are presented as playful entertainment within a modern performance.
The Loose Collective is a mixture of musicians, dancers and choreographers, founded four years ago by Alex Deutinger, Alexander Gottfarb, Marta Navaridas and Anna Maria Nowak. Their work is marked by a great deal of individuality and freshness.

Concept, performance: Alex Deutinger, Alexander Gottfarb, Radek Hewelt, Marta Navaridas, Anna Maria Nowak; Music, Composition: Guenther Berger, Stephan Sperlich – 78plus; Costumes: Hanna Hollmann; Light: Peter Thalhamer; Sound: Stefan Ehgartner; Outside Eye: Jacob Banigan. A production of Kunstverein Archipelago Wien and Performanceinitiative 22 Graz, coproduced by Tanzquartier Wien, in cooperation with D.ID / Dance Identity Burgenland, modul-dance, DanceIreland Dublin, Dansenshus Stockholm, Dansescenen Copenhagen and Co-Festival, Kino Šiška Ljubljana. Funded by MA 7 – Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Stadt Graz Kultur, Kultur Land Steiermark and bmu:kk. The performance takes place in the frame of the project modul-dance, funded by Programm Kultur der Europäischen Union. The program series "Back to the future – 35 Jahre tanzhaus nrw“ is funded by Kunststiftung NRW.

Links:
http://tanzhaus-nrw.de/main_pages/the-loose-collective-at?locale=en#.UlZv5xAl97w
http://theloosecollective.wordpress.com/works/current-production/

DESACRE! by 2ND NATURE/CHRISTINE GAIGG at ImPulsTanz

DeSacre!

Pussy Riot meets Vaslav Nijinsky: Choreographer Christine Gaigg literally enters the Pussy Riot act and shows – accompanied by scenes of Nijinsky’s scandalous choreography of "Sacre du Printemps" 1913 – how at the right moment works of art can touch the nerve of a society.

 

with: Alexander Deutinger, Christine Gaigg, Radek Hewelt, Erich Klein, Marta Navaridas, Petr Ochvat, Anna Prokopová, Eva-Maria Schaller, Veronika Zott

 

Stage: Philipp Harnoncourt,  

Costumes: Dorothea Nicolai,  

Light: Jan Wagner,

  

Sound: Florian Bogner, 

Assistance: Iris Raffetseder, 

PR: artphalanx

Performances will take place at St. Ursula Kirche (Johannesgasse 8, 1010 Wien)

24.07.2013,  19:30

25.07.2013,  19:30

26.07.2013,  19:30

26.07.2013,  21:30

Links:

http://www.impulstanz.com/en/performances/2013/id636/

http://www.impulstanz.com/performances/2013/id636/

OESTERREICH TANZT BABY! at Fespielhaus in St.Pölten

TANZ BABY! meets CLEVER TEAM 

(Radek Hewelt and Filip Szatarski)

This unique artistic encounter will take the audience on performative journey through glamour, illusion and heart-warming tune. CLEVER TEAM, known from their incorrectly optimistic approach to art in general, will meet the iconic band – TANZ BABY! Both formations believe with full compassion and naivety in eternal love. They will use all possible tools to proof that love still exists…  Even if it reaches the borders of absurd.

The concert/performance will take place on 16 and 17 May at Festspielhaus at St.Pölten.
Beside TANZ BABY! and CLEVER TEAM there will be also presented the works of Stephanie Cumming, Akos Hargitay and Helene Weinzierl.

Österreich tanzt Baby!

On 16 and 17 May an evening of choreography and music at Festspielhaus in St.Pölten. Four choreographers: Stephanie Cumming, Akos Hargitay, Radek Hewelt (with Filip Szatarski) and Helene Weinzierl will meet on stage Austrian music band TanzBaby! Below a short note from Der Standard informing about an event. 

 

Jeder hat etwas zu sagen - und jeder kann tanzen

Helmut Ploebst, 25. April 2013 

 Joachim Schloemer sagt nicht leise Servus. Er lässt am 11. Mai in der Uraufführung von "alles bewegt" 130 Niederösterreicher tanzen. Und am 16. Mai heißt es: "Österreich tanzt Baby!"

 [...] Zwei Tipps zum Abschluss: Am 16. und 17. Mai führt Schloemer unter dem Titel Österreich tanzt Baby! in der Choreografie von Stephanie Cumming, Ákos Hargitay, Radek Hewelt und Helene Weinzierl mit Beteiligung von Simon Mayer und Pieter Ampe zu Songs von Tanz Baby! durch Aspekte des freien Tanzes.

Link to original article:

http://derstandard.at/1363709142475/Jeder-hat-etwas-zu-sagen---und-jeder-kann-tanzen

Echoes after "DeSacre!" by Christine Gaigg

The review from Der Standard by Helmut Ploebst

Pussy Riot und Readymades

Helmut Ploebst, 26. April 2013

Zwei außergewöhnliche Tanzstücke in der Feedback-Reihe des 

Tanzquartier Wien

Wien - Die Eigenschaft von Ereignissen, in der Vergangenheit zu versinken, ist eine Provokation für Choreografen. Denn nach jeder Aufführung "verschwinden" auch ihre Werke. Ein Zusammenschluss aus vier Tanzschaffenden mit einem bildenden Künstler und die Choreografin Christine Gaigg haben im Rahmen von Feedback, einem Kurzfestival des Tanzquartier Wien, mit zwei Uraufführungen auf diese Verluste reagiert.

 […] Und Gaigg zeigte ihr neues Stück DeSacre! - auf Einladung von Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer - in der Josefskapelle der Wiener Hofburg.



Es gibt eine brutale Parallele zwischen dem skandalträchtigen Tanzstück Le Sacre du printemps von 1913 und einer Protestaktion der Frauengruppe Pussy Riot in der Moskauer Erlöserkathedrale im Vorjahr. Knapp vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs inszenierten der Komponist Igor Strawinsky und die Truppe der Ballets Russes die Geschichte einer Frau, die von einer Männergesellschaft in den Tod gehetzt wird. Und jüngst war es wieder eine Männergesellschaft, diesmal als unheilige Allianz aus Kirche und Staat, die Frauen nach einem harmlosen Protestauftritt hetzten.



Christine Gaigg hat DeSacre! als Doku-Performance angelegt, in der Le Sacre, dessen Originalchoreografie von Vaclav Nijinsky verloren ist, mit dem Tanz der Pussy-Riot-Gruppe verschränkt wird. Während der Aufführung kommentiert Gaigg zusammen mit dem Autor Erich Klein das Geschehen. Pussy Riot hatte ein musikalisch bearbeitetes Video ihrer Aktion ins Netz gestellt. Als ausgewiesene Filmexpertin untersuchte Gaigg dieses Material und stellt den Auftritt Szene für Szene nach. So beweist sie, dass sich die Frauen in der Kathedrale völlig gewaltfrei verhalten haben. Die Choreografin hat die Arbeit von Nijinsky nicht rekonstruiert, sondern ihrer verlorenen Form mit aktuellem, brisantem Inhalt eine neue Sprache verliehen. Das ist eine wirkliche Leistung.



Link to original preview:
http://derstandard.at/1363709322855/Pussy-Riot-und-Readymades 
 

The Old Testament according to Loose Collective

"The Old Testament according to Loose Collective" by LOOSE COLLECTIVE will be presented within the frame of FEEDBACK festival in TQW in Vienna. The performance will take place on 27.04 at 20:30

"for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff." Joshua 7:11

The Loose Collective has recently attracted attention as a result of the unconventionality and freshness of their productions and their enthusiastic performance-style. In their latest work, the Austria-based international group of dancers, choreographers and musicians dedicate themselves to the texts of the Old Testament.

Using contemporary performance methods – from cut-up techniques and chorus scenes to beatboxing and diaspora post punk – they propose a physical and musical montage of elements of this enormous body of text, which today is still an expression of creativity and utopia, of human ambition and frustration.

CONCEPT, PERFORMANCE: Alex Deutinger, Alexander Gottfarb, Radek Hewelt, Marta Navaridas, Anna Maria Nowak
MUSIC, COMPOSITION: Guenther Berger and Stephan Sperlich – 78plus
COSTUME: Hanna Hollmann
LIGHT: Peter Thalhamer
SOUND: Stefan Ehgartner
DRAMATURGICAL ADVICE: Jacob Banigan
 

A COPRODUCTION by Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstverein Archipelago Wien and Performanceinitiative 22 Graz
IN COOPERATION with D.ID / Dance Identity Burgenland, the EU cultural programme: Modul-Dance, DanceIreland Dublin, Dansenshus Stockholm, Dansescenen Copenhagen and Co-Festival, Kino Šiška Ljubljana
 

WITH SUPPORT by MA 7 – Cultural department of the city of Vienna, City of Graz Cultur, Kultur Land Steiermark and bm:ukk

Link:

http://www.tqw.at/en/events/old-testament-according-loose-collective-0?date=2013-04-27_20-30

"DeSacre!" by Christine Gaigg/2nd Nature

On Wednesday 23.04 the premiere of "DeSacre!" - a new performance by Christine Gaigg - will take place at St. Joseph's Chapel in Hofburg - presidential residencies in Vienna. The show will start at 19:30.

The complexity of an art action is great, but also or precisely when the action only lasts for 40 seconds. If the complexity exceeds the possibilities of a society a sore point has probably been hit. In the case of Pussy Riot the sore point of Russian society is obvious, the result is well-known.

In DeSacre! the choreographer Christine Gaigg interweaves the re-enactment of the Pussy Riot action of 21 February 2012 in the Moscow church of Christ the Saviour with scenes from Le Sacre du Printemps, which was premièred in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky and Vaclav Nijinsky in Paris. Here, in a kind of liturgical sequence, scenes from the original choreography with headings such as »Games of the Rival Tribes«, »Procession of the Sage«, »Dance of the Earth«, »Evocation of the Ancestors« and »The Victim« meet with the action by Pussy Riot and text quotations and commentary on the case.

In the architecture of the St Joseph’s Chapel, which was built in 1772 over several storeys of the Vienna Hofburg and the present-day presidential chancellery, the aspects thrown up also address questions to our society: What is desecration? If one incorporates the divided reactions in Russia and the international support, does the action go beyond pure provocation? Is everything answered with the argument of the sacrosanct?

CONCEPT, DIRECTION: Christine Gaigg
PERFORMAMCE: Alexander Deutinger, Radek Hewelt, Marta Navaridas, Petr Ochvat, Anna Prokopová, Eva Maria Schaller, Veronika Zott
ROOM: Philipp Harnoncourt
LIGHT: Jan Wagner
DRAMATURGY TEXT: Erich Klein
MUSIC ADAPTION: Florian Bogner
MUSIC: Igor Strawinsky Le sacre du Printemps
CHOREOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS: Vaclav Nijinsky, Pussy Riot
COSTUME: Dorothea Nicolai
ASSISTENCE: Iris Raffetseder


A COPRODUCTION by Tanzquartier Wien and 2nd nature
2nd nature is SUPPORTED by MA 7 – Cultural department of the city of Vienna


Link:
http://www.tqw.at/en/events/desacre?date=2013-04-24_19-30

SUBSTITUTE SHOW at imagetanz

SUBSTITUTE SHOW will be presented on Monday and Tuesday (18 & 19 March) at brut/Konzerthaus at 20:00.
It's a new solo by Radek Hewelt.

 photo: Łukasz Unterschuetz

In Substitute show, Polish performer Radek Hewelt embarks on a personal journey back in time into his past and ends up in communist Poland. The political and economic crisis has a tight grip on the country, but the young man’s ardent wish to found a punk band is stronger. The only problem: an electric guitar is neither to be found nor affordable. Necessity is the mother of invention, so a tennis racket is simply converted into an instrument which magical sounds can be charmed out of. Twenty five years later, again in crisis-torn times, Radek Hewelt remembers such almost forgotten skills – not to make a guitar this time, but to create a performance.

More information on the website of brut:
http://www.brut-wien.at/programm/detail/876/en/

"Substitute Show" at imagetanz in Vienna

"Substitute Show" - a new piece by Radek Hewelt

The premiere of Substitute Show will take place on 18 March 2013 at 20:00 in brut/Konzerthaus in Vienna. The performance will be shown also on 19 March at 20:00 in the same location. Both shows will be presented within imagetanz festival.

 photo: Łukasz Unterschuetz                                       

In Substitute show, Polish performer Radek Hewelt embarks on a personal journey back in time into his past and ends up in communist Poland. The political and economic crisis has a tight grip on the country, but the young man’s ardent wish to found a punk band is stronger. The only problem: an electric guitar is neither to be found nor affordable. Necessity is the mother of invention, so a tennis racket is simply converted into an instrument which magical sounds can be charmed out of. Twenty five years later, again in crisis-torn times, Radek Hewelt remembers such almost forgotten skills – not to make a guitar this time, but to create a performance.

Concept and performance: Radek Hewelt  
Dramaturgical advice: Filip Szatarski

A-co-production of imagetanz/brut Wien and Visitores – Association for the projection of artistic ideas. The work came into being as part of the project Europe in Motion. A work-in-progress was presented at the Springdance Festival 2012 in Utrecht (Netherlands) and in Teatr w Oknie in Gdansk (Poland).

Links:
http://www.brut-wien.at/programm/detail/876/en/
https://www.wien.gv.at/vadb/internet/AdvPrSrv.asp?Layout=VAErgebnis_neu&Type=K&ID=324509&return=

CLEVER PROJECT review (english translation)

"It Might Be Your Last Day"

Radek Hewelt and Filip Szatarski dance a "Clever Project" at WUK Vienna.

 

The arts sector benefits from the crisis - provided it is clever. Or rather, provided all sorts of art dealers, agents and speculators are clever. The two performers Radek Hewelt and Filip Szatarski - aka The Clever Team - want to be as clever as possible. That is why their "Clever Project", which currently premiered at WUK Vienna, is so touching.

The two performers are well aware that there is no large profit to be made in contemporary dance.  Still, it should at least be possible to place a few bets on it. This is put to the test here. The audience knows right away about their first bonus of the evening: They get ten performances for the price of one.

At the beginning, a song for two voices defines the basis of a proper speculation: "Tomorrow, when you open your eyes and you look through your window, remember: It might be the last day of your life."  Right, it is the mood that counts! The awareness that death might be at your doorstep creates a demand for whatever you would still like to indulge yourself in.

Becoming a tree, for example. Even in the theater, if need be. With your life at stake, dreams are in great demand. The same goes for meditation, just in case you might become a bit tight. So, the Clever Team - with plenty of commonplace phrases - guides the audience through a group meditation, which soon dissolves into the nirvana of an opera spoof.

At this point, the piece turns into a pearl of irony, which gets even bigger, as Radek Hewelt grabs his ukelele and - tender at first, then with more and more rock 'n' roll force - sings the same line over and over: "When I was young, smoking, fucking, drinking all the night, my mind was drugged." The sentimental values of rock 'n' roll are a safe bet these days, just as those of high culture.

Why? As an answer, the two performers tell their own biographies. Good choice. Firstly, because this always works, and secondly, because it is a way for us to understand our own finite lives better.

Radek and Filip set out together to find the Holy Grail, to conquer the world. They suffered hunger and rejection, invented a healing-method - and the first projector. They thought they were the center of the world. Until dark clouds loomed over the horizon and a "Stagnator"-monster descended upon them.

It won´t be revealed here how the Clever Team mastered this crisis. Yet something obvious needs to be said: This piece is a both excellent and poignant satire on crises and emotional speculation in our cultural life.

(Helmut Ploebst, DER STANDARD, Vienna, 11.2.2013)

Link to original article: http://derstandard.at/1360161312523/Es-koennte-dein-letzter-Tag-sein