branching out

Guest Choreography

Listen, I am not in between the trees
See, I am a bunch of birches
Feel, I am elongated lines growing into the sky
Smell the black and white of my bark, my skin
Sense, I am regularly spread in space
Know, I am a garden, in a field, birds do settle in my charms
Wind goes through me, wind blows among my trunks

I was/am somewhere/nowhere
I was/am something/nothing/ I know/feel I am too much
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Dutch performer and dramaturg Robert Steijn writes a poem for Austrian choreographer Georg Blaschke for a fictional performance. Georg Blaschke himself passes on an extract of that poem to dance students asking them to create a short dance solo inspired by these lines. The material of these solipsistic statements were then inter-weaved into a choreographic organism for seven dancers.
In Vienna a two-week Feldenkrais workshop introduced the students to improvisatory tasks resulting to the creation of material. In Tel Aviv a three-week process of sharing somatic experiences and qualities motivated the creation of the choreography.