en vie... en ville
Swiss dance artists DA MOTUS! create a remarkable questioning performance. Their practice takes the form of meticulously choreographing their dramatically costumed bodies into site-specific organic installations, as it were, using a continually innovative, highly gestural, hyperbolic and surreal vocabulary.
This cutting-edge, spectacular visual grammar is scripted into a silent geometrical ballet involving extreme metaphor, fantasy and control.
The supple plasticity and precise drill of the group’s lively style cannot be coded as conventional theatre, dance or body art. The transgressive articulation fissures the categorical, embraces the absurd and relentlessly strips aesthetic norms to reveal an essential message.
A stark blend of the mechanical with the explosively intense, the artists’ critical intervention in public space is a mode of perfected synchrony, apparently directed and energized by a unique outstanding will, seemingly martial and urgent, but finally burlesque and touching. The performance questions about the logic of the alienated relationships human beings create with the urban environment.
"Surprising short-choreographies alternate with impressive statues. A lasting production of "city-equipment", alienating and fascinating at the same time ... A exceptional fusion of art and architecture - a brilliant example of innovative street-theatre, that intervenes in public area and shapes it." (Charlie Bick, directeur artistique Festival tête-à-tête Rastatt, 2006)
"...a silent geometrical ballet ...of high aesthetics ..." (Die Rheinpfalz 30.07.2005)
"The four Swiss impress by perfect synchronization ... they move as guided by a single will." (Badisches Tagblatt 26.05.2006
"On the cobble-stones, poetic bodies ... a performance full of fineness." (L’Express 07.07.2004)
"This kind of urban choreography rises in its challenge when it renews the look we have on the city… Dance here is no longer about the classical art of beautiful movement or a contemporary search of expression. It rather is a critical approach of the urban environment. A calling into questions of our way to look ... Sometimes it takes four yellow characters coming straight out of a zany fantasy to help you open up your eyes and rediscover a fragment of the city…" (La Liberté 25.10.2003)
"A wonderful allegory of urban life, which doesn’t give any ready-made answers but asks the attentive audience intelligent questions." (Esther Sutter, dance-journalist, 2003)
idea and concept
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly
choreography
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly, in collaboration with the dancers.
Previous participation (2003) of Christiane Loch and Silvano Mozzini (www.carambole-dance.ch)
Dance
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly, Tae Peter, Dominique Cardito, Ismael Oiartzabal, Maelle Desclaux
music
Philippe Héritier
costumes
Brigitte Meuwly
Comunication
Sabrina Deladerière
Production
Antonio Bühler
support
Department for Culture Canton Fribourg, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland, Municipality of Givisiez, Grauwiller Bijouterie et Horlogerie
Dates
Date | Place | Infos | reservation |
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Sveg - Sweden | Festival Mittkulturen | |
Lillhärdal - Sweden | Festival Mittkulturen | |
Kirkenes - Norway | 11. Barents Spektakel | |
Kirkenes - Norway | 11. Barents Spektakel | |
Kirkenes - Norway | 11. Barents Spektakel | |
Kirkenes - Norway | 11. Barents Spektakel | |
Beijing - China | 4. Beijing Fringe Festival | |
Beijing - China | 4. Beijing Fringe Festival | |
Belo Horizonte - Brazil | Horizonte Urbanos - Mostra Int. de dança em espaço urbano | |
Belo Horizonte - Brazil | Horizonte Urbanos - Mostra Int. de dança em espaço urbano | |
Guanajuato - Mexico | Festival Internacional Cervantino | |
Guanajuato - Mexico | Festival Internacional Cervantino | |
Irapuato - Mexico | Festival Internacional Cervantino | |
Querétaro - Mexico | Festival Internacional Cervantino | |
Chur - Switzerland | Tanzfestival TanZeiT-ZeiTanZ | |
Yverdon-les-Bains - Switzerland | Jeux du Castrum | |
Beirut - Lebanon | International Beirut Street Festival | |
Beirut - Lebanon | International Beirut Street Festival | |
Zadar - Croatia | Zadar Snova Int. Festival of Contemporary Theatre | |
Québec - Canada | 42. Festival d'Eté International de Québec FEIQ | |
Québec - Canada | 42. Festival d'Eté International de Québec FEIQ | |
Québec - Canada | 42. Festival d'Eté International de Québec FEIQ | |
Québec - Canada | 42. Festival d'Eté International de Québec FEIQ | |
Delémont - Switzerland | Fête de la danse | |
New Dehli - India | 48°C Public.Art.Ecology Intern. Festival | |
New Dehli - India | 48°C Public.Art.Ecology Intern. Festival | |
New Dehli - India | 48°C Public.Art.Ecology Intern. Festival | |
Augsburg - Germany | Intern. Festival "Gaskesseltreiben" | |
Augsburg - Germany | Intern. Festival "Gaskesseltreiben" | |
London - United Kingdom | National Theatre Watch This Space Festival | |
London - United Kingdom | National Theatre Watch This Space Festival | |
London - United Kingdom | Festival of Architecture, Canary Wharf | |
London - United Kingdom | City of London Festival | |
London - United Kingdom | City of London Festival | |
Aachen - Germany | Festival "across the borders" | |
Delft - Netherlands | Mooi Weer Spelen Intern. Festival (2x) | |
Delft - Netherlands | Mooi Weer Spelen Intern. Festival (2x) | |
Sibiu - Romania | Sibiu International Theatre Festival | |
Sibiu - Romania | Sibiu International Theatre Festival | |
Jaipur - India | Jaipur Heritage International Festival 08 | |
Jaipur - India | Jaipur Heritage International Festival 08 | |
New Dehli - India | Khoj Live 08 - International Performance Art Festival | |
Chandigarth - India | Chandigarh Tourism and STEPS | |
Sucre - Bolivia | Festival intern. contemporaneo "Andanza" | |
La Paz - Bolivia | Festival intern. contemporaneo "Andanza" | |
Bridport West Bay - United Kingdom | Inside Out International Festival | |
Esch-sur-Alzette - Luxembourg | Festival Terres-Rouges | |
Esch-sur-Alzette - Luxembourg | Festival Terres-Rouges | |
Saarbrücken - Germany | Festival Sommerszene | |
Vilnius - Lithuania | New Baltic Dance Festival 07 | |
Vilnius - Lithuania | New Baltic Dance Festival 07 | |
Wismar - Germany | Festival boulevArt | |
Heilbronn - Germany | Heilbronner Sommer Theater | |
Châlon-sur-Saône - France | Festival “CHALON DANS LA RUE“ | |
Châlon-sur-Saône - France | Festival “CHALON DANS LA RUE“ | |
Châlon-sur-Saône - France | Festival “CHALON DANS LA RUE“ | |
Rastatt - Germany | Intern. Festival tête-à-tête | |
Rastatt - Germany | Intern. Festival tête-à-tête | |
Caracas - Venezuela | Reception Ambassade de Suisse | |
Caracas - Venezuela | Festival de las Artes de Baruta | |
Caracas - Venezuela | Festival de las Artes de Baruta | |
Caracas - Venezuela | Festival de las Artes de Baruta | |
Santa Marta - Colombia | Festival Internacional de TEATRO DE CARIBE | |
Santa Marta - Colombia | Festival Internacional de TEATRO DE CARIBE | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO | |
Bogotá - Colombia | Représentation pour l'Ambassade de Suisse | |
Dornbirn - Austria | International Festival im-puls | |
Dornbirn - Austria | International Festival im-puls | |
Jelenia Gora - Poland | 23. Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Teatru Ulicznego | |
Görlitz - Germany | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen | |
Görlitz - Germany | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival | |
Ludwigshafen - Germany | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen | |
Ludwigshafen - Germany | Intern. Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen | |
Hall im Tirol - Austria | Landesausstellung kulturelles Rahmenprogramm | |
Hall im Tirol - Austria | Landesausstellung kulturelles Rahmenprogramm | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Festival Science et Cité Fribourg, giratoire Tivoli | |
Neuchâtel - Switzerland | Festival Scène ouverte 2004 Association Danse Neuchâtel | |
Neuchâtel - Switzerland | Festival Scène ouverte 2004 Association Danse Neuchâtel | |
Neuchâtel - Switzerland | Festival Scène ouverte 2004 Association Danse Neuchâtel | |
Neustadt a.d. Weinstrasse - Germany | Landeskultursommer-Eröffnung Rheinland-Pfalz | |
Neustadt a.d. Weinstrasse - Germany | Landeskultursommer-Eröffnung Rheinland-Pfalz | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fribourg Centre ville | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fribourg Centre ville | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fribourg Centre ville | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fribourg Centre ville | |
Fribourg - Switzerland | Fribourg Centre ville |