works
lost is my quiet forever
Première 18 September 2008, Amsterdam
We will be abstract, bestial, cruel, perverse, ridiculous, subtle, vulgar and fraudulent. We will reject our mortality and stay. This is a momentary pleasure. Life is here and now. We are here, and now we live. Excessively, until we drop. This has everything and nothing to do with paradise. Ecstasy, vanity […]
les sylphides
(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. […]
the uncertainty principle
(2007)
This performance was made in the frame of our event LISA live(s) in Kikker from 19-22 December 2007 in Theater Kikker in Utrecht. We gave each other the assignment to respond to each other’s work. I respond to the research of Hester van Hasselt, that is based on a piece of prose written by Samuel […]
reflections (the perfect place)
(2007)
Imagine paradise was a real place-
What would it look like?
Could you describe it in detail?
How would you feel there?
Would there be any other people?
This project was based on the commission of Springdance Festival and Theater Kikker to curate an event in Theater Kikker during the Utrecht Uitfeest on the 9th of September. I invited about […]
enter ghost
(2006)
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 world. According […]
the exact position of things
(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 Tag, […]
several species of small furry animals…
(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, […]
sonntag
(2003)
Sonntag is Nicole Beutler ’s first project with non-professional dancers, and shall lead to a big fascination for the work with ‘real people’ with all its consequences. For this performance she reconstructed and subtly manipulated the traditional form of a german „Tanztee” for the Festival Tanztage in den Sophiensaelen in Berlin . During three weeks […]