... con tatto
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.
"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, directeur artistique du National Theatre à Londres et Watch This Space Festival 2012)
"No urban furniture escapes from their pranks … everything gives cause for contact and poetry." (Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace 03.05.2010)
"... 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." (L. Mullings, organisatrice du 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)
"Highly creative ... A wonderful, very sensitive encounter with the audience." (S. Sahling, directrice du Ludwigshafen Theaterfestival 2009)
idea and concept
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
Philippe Héritier
costumes
Brigitte Meuwly
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
Dates
Date | Place | Infos | reservation |
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Auvernier - Switzerland | Festival Hiver de Danses (2x) | |
Vevey - Switzerland | Fête de la Danse 2015 | |
Basel - Switzerland | Tanzfest - Fête de la Danse - Basel | |
Alexandria - Egypt | 2nd Backstreet Festival | |
Alexandria - Egypt | 2nd Backstreet Festival | |
Bellinzona - Switzerland | 5. Festival Performa | |
Locarno - Switzerland | 5. Festival Performa | |
Genève - Switzerland | Fête de la Danse 2014 | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fête de la Danse 2014 | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fête de la Danse 2014 | |
Maputo - Mozambique | Semaine de la Francophonie - Centre culturel franco-mozambicain | |
Maputo - Mozambique | Semaine de la Francophonie - Centre culturel franco-mozambicain | |
Johannesburg - South Africa | UJ Arts & Culture - University of Johannesburg | |
Johannesburg - South Africa | UJ Arts & Culture - University of Johannesburg | |
Cape Town - South Africa | Festival Infecting the City | |
Cape Town - South Africa | Festival Infecting the City | |
Bruxelles - Belgium | Les Fêtes Romanes - Wolubilis | |
Bruxelles - Belgium | Les Fêtes Romanes - Wolubilis | |
Birmingham - United Kingdom | Birmingham Hippodrome (2x) | |
Lahnstein - Germany | Eröffnung Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz | |
Lahnstein - Germany | Eröffnung Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz | |
Almelo - Netherlands | KUNSTen op Straat | |
München - Germany | Tollwood | |
München - Germany | Tollwood | |
München - Germany | Tollwood | |
München - Germany | Tollwood | |
London - United Kingdom | National Theater - Watch This Space (2x) | |
London - United Kingdom | National Theater - Watch This Space | |
Sibiu - Romania | Sibiu International Theater Festival | |
Sibiu - Romania | Sibiu International Theater Festival | |
Braga - Portugal | Opening Day "2012 European Youth Capital" | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Colegio Helvetia | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Chassepierre - Belgium | 38e Festival International des Arts de la Rue | |
Chassepierre - Belgium | 38e Festival International des Arts de la Rue | |
Doetinchem - Netherlands | 18. Festival Buiten Gewoon | |
Doetinchem - Netherlands | 18. Festival Buiten Gewoon | |
Holzminden - Germany | 11. Strassentheater Festival | |
Holzminden - Germany | 11. Strassentheater Festival | |
Braunschweig - Germany | Experiment: Stadtraum Kulturinstitut Stadt Braunschweig | |
Braunschweig - Germany | Experiment: Stadtraum Kulturinstitut Stadt Braunschweig | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Les Grand-Places en débat | |
Jelenia Gora - Poland | 28. Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Teatru Ulicznego | |
Görlitz - Germany | 16. Inernationale Strassentheaterfestival Via Thea | |
Görlitz - Germany | 16. Inernationale Strassentheaterfestival Via Thea | |
Lausanne - Switzerland | Lausanne Estivale | |
Lausanne - Switzerland | Lausanne Estivale | |
Pforzheim - Germany | Int. Pforzheimer Musik- und Theaterfestival | |
Lausanne - Switzerland | 38. Festival de la Cité | |
Lausanne - Switzerland | 38. Festival de la Cité | |
Lausanne - Switzerland | 38. Festival de la Cité | |
London - United Kingdom | London Festival of Architecture | |
London - United Kingdom | London Festival of Architecture | |
Warszawa - Poland | VI. Intern. Dance-Theatre Festival Zawirowania | |
Warszawa - Poland | VI. Intern. Dance-Theatre Festival Zawirowania | |
Metz - France | Journée QuattroPole | |
Macao - China | 21. Macao Arts Festival | |
Macao - China | 21. Macao Arts Festival | |
Obernai - France | 15. Festival Pisteurs d'Etoiles / Espace Athic | |
Brig - Switzerland | Eröffnung Zeughaus-Kultur Brig | |
Ludwigshafen - Germany | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen | |
Ludwigshafen - Germany | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen | |
Neuchâtel - Switzerland | Festival de danse Scène ouverte | |
Neuchâtel - Switzerland | Festival de danse Scène ouverte | |
Neuchâtel - Switzerland | Festival de danse Scène ouverte |