In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Moment
Dance
7.30pm
Alexandra Waierstall's In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Moment is is an open invitation to contemplate, process and, most of all, feel through our times.
Part of an international double bill with From One Skin to Another.
This ambitious work, initially inspired by dancers and the “Arena”, a monumental sculpture created by acclaimed American artist Rita McBride in 1997, is performed by the stunning dynamic range of finely attuned dancers, with every movement reflecting how our bodies are adjusting to rapidly changing social structures.
Using her signature style, Alexandra Waierstall engages us with seemingly contradictory emotions, through exquisite collaborations and the layering of thought-provoking references, about place and history.
This rich genesis of knowledge creates a transformation process calling to our hearts, real and symbolic.
CREDITS
Choreography, concept, direction: Alexandra Waierstall
Performance, collaboration: Ying Yun Chen, Yi-Chi Lee, Eftychia Stefanou, Karolina Szymura, Will Thompson.
Dramaturgical support: Eva Martinez
Artistic collaboration: Volker Hermes, Maria Iole Karolidou
Composition: Stavros Gasparatos
Light design: Caty Olive
Text: Maria Iole Karolidou
Stage, lights: Alexandra Waierstall
Costumes: Alexandra Waierstall, Horst Weierstall
Management: Judith Jaeger
Support & Thanks
Supported by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf.
This performance was made possible thanks to support from Goethe-Institut Irland and the German Federal Foreign Office.
Image Credit: Katja Illner
The body of work by Alexandra Waierstall destabilizes patriarchal structures in how her artistic approach and processes propose an expanded time that works as a softening of divisions - Eva Martinez, Dance Curator and Dramaturge, Former Artistic Programmer of Sadler’s Wells, London.
From One Skin to Another
Alexandra Paal and Alice Ortona Coles showcase the outcome of their creation residency at Tipperary Dance [AI1]
From One Skin to Another is a struggle to shed a skin, to move forward, to let go. It is the story from cocoon to butterfly, of a snake that sheds it skin.
It is a physical exploration of the layers that come together to make a body. This body, that sometimes needs to be shed to reveal new layers.
Alexandra Paal and Alice Ortona Coles
Work-in-Progress
Running time: 25 Minutes
