| Artistic
Biography
Project RaumKlangTanz
5-Year Research Project
Dieses Stück ist vor allem dank Bob
Wilsons berühmter rationalistisch-perfektionistischen
Interpretation bekannt, die wir vor mehr
als fünf Jahren gesehen haben. Auch
Eva Weißmann ist der Perfektionismus
(ein vielmehr magischer als rationeller)
nicht fremd, aber im Gegensatz zu Bob Wilson
zieht er sich nicht durch die gesamte Vorstellung
hindurch.
Nina
Vangeli, Tanecni Zona, Prag. Über die
Aufführung des
"Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights"
auf Einladung im
Archa Theatre am 29.11.2001
Artistic Biography
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Since her creation of EISENTANZ, a Pas
de Deux between dancer and 30 kg heavy iron
ladder, Eva Weißmann performs without
musical support. Instead she works with
the element of the spoken word: that is,
with text from Gertrude Stein. She is recognized
and acclaimed by the international dance
scene as belonging to the avant-garde.
The spectrum of choreographed works in
Eva Weißmann’s repertoire reaches
from her minutely developed solo and ensemble
pieces, with year-long maturing processes
(PYANOPSION; DEN REST VON NACHT) to specific
forms of improvisation.
In 1992/93 she created a method called
„Recycling the Oversight“ which
was part of the performance series AIDS
WORK IN PROGRESS. Comments from the audience
and mistakes are built into the following
perfomance.
A third highlight: Improvisation to art
works including the inauguration of the
sculpture INTERSECTION from Richard Serra
in 1994 in front of the „Theater Basel“.
In 1998 she once again breaks new grounds
with „score theater“:
the scores which have been composed during
a lengthy process at a writing desk, are
performed spontaneously by the group without
any preparation. The
dancers receive their instructions onstage
in front of the audience. None of them knows
their „Notes“ in advance. The
result is beyond the power of the choreographer.
Eva Weißmann’s artists have
completely different artistic backgrounds:
musicians, singers, speakers, painters,
sculptors, actors and of course, dancers.
The unifying factor is their desire to question
the traditional genre divisions. With genre-crossing
and genre-cutting, Eva Weißmann wishes
to present onstage the thoughts and writing
technique of the „eternal Avantgardist“
Gertude Stein.
Eva Weißmann’s next ideas revolve
around New Music and conflict awareness/conflict
solution. |
