iDAS NRW
Transforming Door
The video installation “Transforming Door” was created by Barbara Schröer for the Tiny Tots Days.
The “Transforming Door” was projected in its original size onto a frame in the wall where a door used to be.
From 22-24 May 2015, tanzfuchs PRODUKTION invited to the first edition of the Tiny Tots Days in the open space for dance performance art BARNES CROSSING at the Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik – a dance and music performance programme for the very young. The team around Barbara Fuchs presented the complete repertoire from Headwalker, MUNCH! and Buckets of Feeling! at the Tiny Tots Days. In addition, a guest performance – Le son de la sève – by Benoît Sicat from France awaited the small and large audience. In addition, the visitors could look forward to an all-round experience consisting of the – Alles Käse – (Everything Cheese) craft landscape, sound spaces in the area of the wax factory, video installations and a great environment for lingering and picnicking.
Your membrane
It is in a state of disorder. It staggers without direction. An isolated self, hovering in the air, navigates through a space that seems to decompose. This state could take a while to adapt, unable to make plans. Is this just a pause? And what comes next?
In the new piece by tanzfuchs PRODUKTION for two female performers, constellations are created in rooms, interspaces, transit spaces and hybrids between inside and outside.
The tent as a flexible and temporary shelter becomes a reflection surface over precarious conditions, constructions without a base, nomadic life forms.
The “tent” accumulates experience, and this experience branches out and ramifies itself through the tent wall,”says Vilém Flusser. In its prolongation a body of transition is created, which makes these states physically experiencable.
your membrane – a dance piece is the fourth part of the performance series RESPACE on the relationship between space, memory, sound and movement. Central to this is the examination of spatial concepts, temporal dimensions of spatial experience and the interweaving of acoustic and visual movement.
The premiere of your membrane took place on 10 November 2017 at Barnes Crossing (Wachsfabrik) in Cologne.
TEAM
Artistic team: Odile Foehl, Barbara Fuchs, Ursula Nill and Jörg Ritzenhoff.
Concept and implementation: Barbara Fuchs
Performance: Odile Foehl, Ursula Nill
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Technician Wolfgang Pütz
Stage and lighting: Barbara Fuchs
Voice: Gisela Nohl
Text: Jörg Ritzenhoff and Ursula Nill inspired by “Live in limbo”, authors: Turbulence
Dramaturgical advice: Henrike Kollmar
PR: Jasna Mediator
Photography: cMEYER_ORIGINALS
The production is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of NRW. tanzfuchs PRODUKTION is funded by the RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur.
Press quotes
[…]The performance is about the edges of perception, seeing without seeing, hearing without listening. In addition, she throws up a lot of fog that the two dancers in red jackets spread everywhere, fans up and down rays of light in the haze, sets up semi-transparent tents into which someone crawls, while a film projection on the tent skin suggests two or more occupants. The performance makes itself semitransparent with all the hints, the missing representation. Foggy. This has something, even as a modest statement on art and society.[…]
Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 15/11/2017, Melanie Suchy
In one direction
Artists spend most of their time in a rehearsal space rather than on stage. And only a small part of the material created in rehearsals is integrated in the final performance. This solo performances is a very intimite work in which choreographer and dancer Barbara Fuchs opens her private archive of rehearsal notes and recordings, discarded ideas and failed attempts. She constructs a space of memory oscilliating between different time levels but always pointing in one direction.This review becomes a very personal localization where personal and artistic snapshots and future prospects overlap.
in one direction is the third part of the performance series RESPACE dealing with the relations between space, memory, sound and performance.
The premiere of in one direction took place on 3 February 2017 at Barnes Crossing.
TEAM
Artistic direction / Performance: Barbara Fuchs
Composition / live electronic: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Artistic assistance: Ursula Nill
Lighting: Garlef Keßler
Stage design: Odile Foehl
Dramaturgical counseling: Henrike Kollmar
PR: Kerstin Rosemann
Photography: cMEYER_ORIGINALS
in one direction is a tanzfuchs PRODUKTION co-produced by BARNES CROSSING – Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst.
The production is funded by Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW and Kunststiftung NRW. tanzfuchs PRODUKTION is supported by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur.
Press quotes
Mosaik, WDR
Interview with Nicole Strecker, February 2, 2017
[…] Memory in Barbara Fuchs’ current piece turns the process into a course through rooms, a groping through the memory chambers of the brain. “I wanted to do a piece on a biographical space.” For the metaphorical – emotional dimensions of spaces have interested Barbara Fuchs for a long time. In one of her last pieces, for example, together with the composer Jörg Ritzenhoff, she transformed the room into a living creature with a network of cables and loudspeakers like the synapses and cords of a human nervous system in which it twitches, fizzes and hums. […]
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 08.02.2017
There is no going back from Melanie Suchy
[…] Barbara Fuchs choreographs memory as back and forth movements: One looks at old photographs hanging in the furnished corridor and those she holds in front of a camera eye, so that the live projection also shows the focusing. Once this camera captures the spectators as in a group photo, and one wonders how this will be remembered later. Or how all the digital natives will one day fish pictures out of cloud boxes to tell about grandmothers, dance-loving childhood, stage performances.