performances
When not evening night. - Hester van Hasselt
2008
When not evening night. is a research project by Hester van Hasselt, on the base of the novella Ill Seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett. In this text Beckett tries to evoke the image of an old woman - possibly his mother - and to put it into words. It is an attempt to map […]
les Sylphides - Nicole Beutler (artistic assistance)
2007/2008
We witness three (ex-) ballerinas onstage, each of them very different in their relation to classical ballet, reproducing this first non-narrative ballet from the beginning of the 20th century. Putting into question the idea of the ‚new’, looking back and learning from old strategies, how did dance as a stage-art become what it is now. […]
Enter Ghost - Nicole Beutler
2006
The Performance
The stage direction ‘Enter Ghost’ from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the point of departure for this project. The instruction is paradoxical: how can we make a ghost – an invisible and undeterminable force – appear on stage? And what is a ghost? Sight has become the privileged sense for our empirical interpretation of the […]
The Exact Position of Things - Nicole Beutler
2005
If you have a lot, not just one piece, but more of the same, how would you call that?
*A collection?
A collection. No, not exactly.
When you see so many people on top of each other, how would you call that?
*A meeting?
No, not a meeting.
*A group?
Also not.
(From: Der […]
several species of small furry animals… - Nicole Beutler
2003
several species of small furry animals… is a series of four solo-portraits placed on the borderline of dance, performance and installation art. It is a spectacle, where distractions such excessive movement, costume and music have been reduced to a minimum in order to allow for the watcher to see the performer’s skin, nerves and sweat, […]
Eigenheimer - Herman Diephuis and Hester van Hasselt
2003
research by/onderzoek van Herman Diephuis and/en Hester van Hasselt
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Over eigenheid en culturele identiteit. Het gevoel los te […]
The Show Must Go On - Jerome Bel
2001
The possibility of an art-piece, even a choreography, today is not to propose an utterance, but to invite the spectator to re-invent him/herself, or perhaps less utopic, to re-search his/her ideology of watching, of constructing Self, or articulating security. The artwork cannot say anything in itself, it can represent a political idea or concept, but […]