Confessions – the Autopsy of a Performance
© Georg Schreiber

PROJECT

Confessions – the Autopsy of a Performance (2003)

Confessions – the Autopsy of a Performance is an investigation on the nature of presence on stage, the status of reality in this context and the dynamics of the construct; performer-audience- and the stage that keeps them apart.

What is presence on stage?
How does the manipulation of presence influence the perception of a performance?
Does construction feed falsification?
Looking at acting as a form of non-acting in order to arrive at a distance from the artificiality of performance, only to return to it again from a different perspective.
Looking for harmony between dead energy and live presence, stretching the tension between formalism and naturalism, environment and action.

  • (c) Georg Schreiber
  • (c) Georg Schreiber

(Physical) Images and text lead the spectators into a world where lies are sometimes true and facts unimportant.

In the performance manipulation and speculation give birth to a sincere and curious approach to what live performance is and brings our attention to the absurdity of theater, its nature as a constructed lie, built to be believed in.

Past Dates

July 2007

25/07
Full Moon Dance Festival (Pyhajarvi (FI))

August 2006

11/08
Augusti Tantsu Festival (Talinn (EE))

March 2006

07/03
Imagetanz Festival/Dietheater (Wien (AT))
08/03
Imagetanz Festival/Dietheater (Wien (AT))

February 2006

17/02
Brakke Grond/Something Raw (Amsterdam)
18/02
Brakke Grond/Something Raw (Amsterdam)
10/02
Aerowaves Festival (London)

November 2005

03/11
Polly Festival (Göteborg (SE))

October 2005

28/10
Moderne Dansteatern (Stockholm (SE))

May 2005

21/05
Rencontres Choréographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris)
22/05
Rencontres Choréographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris)

March 2005

24/03
Repérages/Dans in Kortrijk (Kortrijk)
10/03
Beursschouwburg/Bougement Festival (Brussel)
11/03
Beursschouwburg/Bougement Festival (Brussel)

October 2004

06/10
De Velinx (Tongeren)
07/10
Amperdans Festival (Antwerpen)
09/10
Amperdans Festival (Antwerpen)
24/10
Theater Fur Alle Festival (Bremen (DE))

August 2004

12/08
Tanzwerkstatt Europa Festival (München (DE))
24/08
Mousonturm (Frankfurt (DE))

July 2004

09/07
Dampf Festival (Keulen (DE))

May 2004

17/05
Mousonturm (Frankfurt (DE))
18/05
Mousonturm (Frankfurt (DE))

February 2004

28/02
Beursschouwburg (Brussel)

October 2003

01/10
Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein (Essen)

Credits

Created and performed by: Nada GambierLight design: Oded HubermannProduced by: Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/PACT Zollverein in Essen, in the framework of DEPARTS, a network sponsored by: the European Commission ‘Culture Programme 2000’Supported by: wpZimmer