... con tatto proved a beautifully crafted performance and your own commitment to developing it to complement our site meant it was the perfect way to bring to life our festival, which celebrates the urban and built environments ... The performance has left a long-lasting impression and was received with adulation by audiences here. I will not forget it easily.
... con tatto
2009
With … con tatto DA MOTUS! presents a gentle meeting with the audience, a research of empathy to enhance delicate corporal contact and to react to the increasing feeling of fear and suspicion spreading in urban area by a sensitive and playful approach.
8 dancers play with the architecture, with each other and also with the spectators. The show leads to amazing physical connections and astonishing positions, which show the beauty and emotion of being physically connected. Gradually the dancers start to approach and involve the audience and the passers-by. Tactfully they get in touch and respectfully involve them too. At the end the dancing grows to a merry ball in which the barrier between dancers and audience almost disappears to become a shared, spontaneous and joyful choreography.
Informations
idea and artistic direction
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly
choreography
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly, in collaboration with the dancers
Dance
Brigitte Meuwly, Déborah Hofstetter, Dominique Cardito, Ismael Oiartzabal, Maelle Desclaux, Marco Volta, Martina Hajdyl Lacova, Tae Peter, Vanessa Lopez
music
costumes
coproduction
DA MOTUS!, Nuithonie-Fribourg in the frame of „RésiDanse fribourgeoise“, Festival de danse Scène Ouverte Neuchâtel, Internationales Strassentheater Festival Ludwigshafen
support
Department for Culture Canton Fribourg, Loterie Romande, Coriolis Fribourg, Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland, CORODIS, Municipality of Givisiez
Press
L. Mullings, organizer of London Festival of Architecture/Arts&Events Canary Wharf 2010
… and the magic takes place : those spectators, at first set, enter gradually into their dance … a touching metamorphosis … This performance was one of the highlights of the Contemporary Dance Festival Neuchâtel.
L’Express 13.07.2009
No urban furniture escapes from their pranks … everything gives cause for contact and poetry.
Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace 03.05.2010
Highly creative ... A wonderful, very sensitive encounter with the audience
S. Sahling, director Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen 2009
Da Motus! made … people happy and brought them to dance. Culture officials of the Municipality were all enthusiastic.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hardeck, CEO Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz 2013
… a really wonderful piece … you all worked so beautifully with the audience and the architecture to create some real magic.
Angus MacKechnie, artistic director National Theatre in London & Watch This Space Festival 2012
Past dates
| Date | Place | Festival |
|---|---|---|
| 20.06.2016 | Sweden - Sveg | Festival Mittkulturen |
| 19.06.2015 | Sweden - Lillhärdal | Festival Mittkulturen |
| 10.05.2015 | Switzerland - Vevey | Fête de la Danse 2015 |
| 09.05.2015 | Switzerland - Basel | Tanzfest - Fête de la Danse 2015 |
| 18.10.2014 | Egypt - Alexandria | 2nd Backstreet Festival |
| 17.10.2014 | Egypt - Alexandria | 2nd Backstreet Festival |
| 04.10.2014 | Switzerland - Bellinzona | 5. Festival Performa |
| 03.10.2014 | Switzerland - Locarno | 5. Festival Performa |
| 04.05.2014 | Switzerland - Genève | Fête de la Danse 2014 |
| 03.05.2014 | Switzerland - Fribourg | Fête de la Danse 2014 |
| 03.05.2014 | Switzerland - Fribourg | Fête de la Danse 2014 |
| 20.03.2014 | Mozambique - Maputo | Semaine de la Francophonie - Centre culturel franco-mozambicain |
| 20.03.2014 | Mozambique - Maputo | Semaine de la Francophonie - Centre culturel franco-mozambicain |
| 17.03.2014 | South Africa - Johannesburg | UJ Arts & Culture - University of Johannesburg |
| 17.03.2014 | South Africa - Johannesburg | UJ Arts & Culture - University of Johannesburg |
| 12.03.2014 | South Africa - Cape Town | Festival Infecting the City |
| 11.03.2014 | South Africa - Cape Town | Festival Infecting the City |
| 29.09.2013 | Belgium - Bruxelles | Les Fêtes Romanes - Wolubilis |
| 28.09.2013 | Belgium - Bruxelles | Les Fêtes Romanes - Wolubilis |
| 03.08.2013 | United Kingdom - Birmingham | Birmingham Hippodrome (2x) |
| 04.05.2013 | Germany - Lahnstein | Eröffnung Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz |
| 03.05.2013 | Germany - Lahnstein | Eröffnung Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz |
| 22.09.2012 | Netherlands - Almelo | KUNSTen op Straat |
| 23.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 22.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 21.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 20.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 14.07.2012 | United Kingdom - London | National Theatre - Watch This Space (2x) |
| 13.07.2012 | United Kingdom - London | National Theatre - Watch This Space |
| 03.06.2012 | Romania - Sibiu | Sibiu International Theatre Festival |
| 02.06.2012 | Romania - Sibiu | Sibiu International Theatre Festival |
| 14.01.2012 | Portugal - Braga | Opening Day "2012 European Youth Capital" |
| 28.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO |
| 26.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO |
| 25.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO |
| 25.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Colegio Helvetia |
| 26.06.2011 | Netherlands - Doetinchem | 18. Festival Buiten Gewoon |
| 25.06.2011 | Netherlands - Doetinchem | 18. Festival Buiten Gewoon |
| 12.06.2011 | Germany - Holzminden | 11. Strassentheater Festival |
| 11.06.2011 | Germany - Holzminden | 11. Strassentheater Festival |
| 30.04.2011 | Switzerland - Fribourg | Les Grand-Places en débat |
| 08.08.2010 | Poland - Jelenia Gora | 28. Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Teatru Ulicznego |
| 07.08.2010 | Germany - Görlitz | 16. Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Via Thea |
| 06.08.2010 | Germany - Görlitz | 16. Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Via Thea |
| 03.08.2010 | Switzerland - Lausanne | Lausanne Estivale |
| 02.08.2010 | Switzerland - Lausanne | Lausanne Estivale |
| 31.07.2010 | Germany - Pforzheim | Int. Pforzheimer Musik- und Theaterfestival |
| 11.07.2010 | Switzerland - Lausanne | 38. Festival de la Cité |
| 10.07.2010 | Switzerland - Lausanne | 38. Festival de la Cité |
| 09.07.2010 | Switzerland - Lausanne | 38. Festival de la Cité |
| 27.06.2010 | United Kingdom - London | London Festival of Architecture |
| 26.06.2010 | United Kingdom - London | London Festival of Architecture |
| 20.06.2010 | Poland - Warszawa | VI. Intern. Dance-Theatre Festival Zawirowania |
| 19.06.2010 | Poland - Warszawa | VI. Intern. Dance-Theatre Festival Zawirowania |
| 12.06.2010 | France - Metz | Journée QuattroPole |
| 23.05.2010 | China - Macao | 21. Macao Arts Festival |
| 22.05.2010 | China - Macao | 21. Macao Arts Festival |
| 01.05.2010 | France - Obernai | 15. Festival Pisteurs d'Etoiles / Espace Athic |
| 11.09.2009 | Switzerland - Brig | Eröffnung Zeughaus-Kultur Brig |
| 01.08.2009 | Germany - Ludwigshafen | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen |
| 31.07.2009 | Germany - Ludwigshafen | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen |
| 11.07.2009 | Switzerland - Neuchâtel | Festival de danse Scène ouverte |
| 10.07.2009 | Switzerland - Neuchâtel | Festival de danse Scène ouverte |
| 09.07.2009 | Switzerland - Neuchâtel | Festival de danse Scène ouverte |
