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Pressemitteilung - Juni 2021

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An unsere KĂĽnstler*innen, das Publikum und die Mitwirkenden

In this year’s edition, TANZAHOi - Take Part in Another World, we are bringing a new perspective to dance and film by including, not only dance films like the previous year’s festival but also giving a platform to live dance performances. After receiving over 450 film and performance proposals during our Open Call and observing the pandemic-induced, explosive presentation of dance images on the Internet, the direction and curators of the festival set forth a series of topics that could be explored: What is the potential of a dance film? What is the potential of a dance stream? These seemingly old topics are awakened by the situation facing the world today—that is, how can dance artists and film creators use and create images and Internet media freely under the surge of a digital era? This question gives way to the theme designed for the festival program: Körper und Bild unter der Pandemie.

With this premise, the transformation of previously known dance into a dance film, a dance for video, or even a dance stream is brought into speculation. In the curated dance film program, there are artists who used story-lines and the body to create narrative, visual works, but also those who used a more experimental approach, redefining dance as not only an art of body movement, but an art of movement in general. TANZAHOi - Take Part in Another World is about resurrecting our understanding of dance, dance films, and dance images by presenting and discussing these works. From the body in the frame and outside the frame of an image, the relationship between the dancer and the observer - the lens or the audience, the angle of photography, the method of video editing - different creators use their own acuity for different materials to realize how the so-called dance elements exist in various forms of transformation. For dance artists, the challenge may be the realization and handling of the difference in perception caused by the transition from 3D to 2D within the media. For the filmmakers and video artists, the relationship of the dance and dancer’s body to the video and imagery brings a confrontation. It is apparent that many filmmakers have begun to notice that dance does not only begin from the dancers, but may also begin from the surrounding imagery. Through the selected dance film works, TANZAHOi invites a greater possibility for discussion about these exciting ultimatums between the artists themselves and the audience during the festival stream and in the after hours of the program.

Für den Tanz-Stream-Teil unseres Programms hat das Festival eine gewagte Aufforderung zur Zusammenarbeit zwischen Choreographen, Performern und Videokünstlern formuliert, bei der eine Tanzperformance von mehreren Kameras aufgenommen wird und in Echtzeit mit dem Publikum eine neue Ästhetik erfährt, während das Risiko, die Spannung und Intimität einer Live-Performance erhalten bleiben - Begrenzt durch Zeit und Raum und beeinflusst durch die Alles-oder-Nichts-Atmosphäre einer Live-Show - Wie können diese beiden künstlerischen Formen zusammenkommen? Zu unserer freudigen Überraschung erhielten wir über 70 faszinierende Arbeiten, von denen wir eine Vorauswahl von 10 Arbeiten trafen, um mit ihnen persönlich über ihr Konzept zu sprechen. Es war eine großartiger Erfahrung, per Videokonferenz mit Künstlern aus Taiwan, Indonesien, Indien, Frankreich, Italien, Griechenland, Großbritannien, Mosambik u.v.a. zu kommunizieren. Der Titel "Take Part in Another World" war Programm, denn wir tauchten ein in die Erfahrungen dieser Künstler im letzten Jahr und wie diese Zeit ihre kreativen Prozesse beeinflussten. Nach intensiven Gesprächen innerhalb des TANZAHOi-Teams wurden aus den zehn Kandidaten drei Performances ausgewählt, die das diesjährige Thema des Festivals am treffenssten widerspiegeln.

Novissimo Bestiario, an innovative company from Italy will present “Asterion's Rooms / Dance into the Web-Maze,” boldly using the windows of video conference calls to deconstruct the dancer's body and rearrange the dance movement and structure of the screen, converging into a new “monster” that emerges from the scene. Angelos Papadopoulos, a multi-disciplinary artist from Greece, uses the distance of the lens to observe the energy of the dancer's body. Their work “The Gravity in Between” is set in a theater-like space, the filming method creating an intimate relationship to the moving entities in the images. Filmmaker Ivan Barros und der Choreograf Pak Ndjamena, zwei Künstler aus Mosambik, werden gemeinsam die "Architecture of the Urban Body” schaffen. Ivan Barros tanzt mit der Linse und Pak Ndjamena tanzt mit dem Körper. Aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen kommend, experimentieren die beiden Künstler mit einer alternativen Perspektive im Gebäude des Maputo Art and Culture Center, einem Raum, der eine eigene Geschichte und Energie in sich trägt.

TANZAHOi is honored to have received such rich and creative works for this year’s program, and welcomes you to take part in a world, opened by digitalization and the need for exchange. Although the pandemic has limited the artistic lives of many, artists have always combined their ideas to create new possibilities of expression. Dance film, dance videos, and dance stream cannot replace dance because they are new forms emerged from the transformation and combination of media and innovation. Join us 3. - 11. September 2021 for a fascinating program, discussion, and possibility for connection!

Auf neue Perspektiven,

Jasmine, Doria, & Diana

Dein TANZAHOi Team