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, in what is their ‘natural’ surrounding, the stage. The question is: How can the performer’s image be burned into the eye of the spectator? Is it the thing they do, or the dance that flickers from within? Does revealing the body, like a striptease, slowly bring the viewer closer to the essence of who the dancer is? Can we put a pin through the performer’s body and stick them labelled into our visual archive? This performance has been developed in close collaboration with the performers and can be performed in both, theatre-spaces, as well as in galleries of musea. A book accompanies this work, archiving associative as well as context-material and texts on the ‘making-of’.

several species of small furry animals… was selected amongst the TOP 5 dance-performances of the season 2003/2004 in the Netherlands by the dutch magazine Theatermaker in June 2004.

Made in collaboration with:
PERFORMANCE Hester van Hasselt, Claire Fleury/Anne Rooschüz, Ricardo Santana/Lucas Condro, Paz Rojo
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE Robert Steijn
MUSIC Pan Sonic, Chris Watson
MUSICMANIPULATION Gary Shepherd
VIDEOMANIPULATION Helle Lyshoj
LIGHTDESIGN Minna Tiikkainen
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY Anja Beutler
BOOK Nicole Beutler
BOOK DESIGN Connie Nijman
CO-PRODUCTION Dansateliers Rotterdam / Theater Gasthuis
The duration of this performance is between 45 minutes and three hours.

PREMIèRE November 2003