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Friction 2006 - Multi-Media Stage Production |
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A kaleidoscopic cinematic experience: passageways form, dissolve, and re-form,
veering out into infinity to evoke the enigma of a corridor. The stage becomes
fluid as live feeds from hidden cameras mix with stunning projected films that
are layered over dynamic, serene yet brutal live dance. Choreography, film,
live-video direction, and set installation by Andrea Haenggi, in collaboration
with Bessie award-winning lighting designer Roderick Murray and a live multi-channel
sound score by David Linton. In addition to the AMDaT Company, Friction also features
two invited performers. The work was commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop and
presented as part of the European Dream Festival 06.
World Premiere
Dance Theater Workshop Fall/Winter Season, NYC | October 24-28, 2006
As part of the European Dream Festival 06
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 7 people - choreographer, 5 dancers, technical director, live-musician.
Special Requirements - one week residency before first performance to adjust the work to the
new site, 2 video projectors, invited local performers.
Length - approximately 60 minutes.
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Dance Magazine 143KB
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under whose control 2005/2004/2003 - Site-adapted Dance Video Production |
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A combination of movement, video projection, and set-installation created by
Swiss/New York choreographer and visual artist Andrea Haenggi,
under whose control developed from a piece of common geometry - the corner of a room -
and was inspired by philosopher E.M.Cioran's remark "to be is to be cornered."
Five women dance in, around, and up an architectural corner and its sculptural
twin, exploring whether the corners offer imprisonment or liberation.
under whose control meshes fierce movement with the romantic
atmosphere of a storefront. By setting the movement in the corners of
the cigar store and interweaving it with precisely timed threatening and
sensual video projections, Haenggi's choreographic language developed from
the restriction of these corners to create a hall of mirrors effect.
Performances
TSEH Dance Theater Festival, Moscow | Nov 30-Dec 4, 2005
new version of under whose control
SiteLines Festival, former J&R cigar store in Lower Manhattan | Jun 16-26, 2004
Presented and Co-commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (15 performances)
under whose control, a 55 minute dance video installation (a new incarnation)
New York Swiss Peaks Festival, On View Studio, Brooklyn | April 12, 13/19-20, 2003
Produced by AMDaT | April 26-27, 2003
under whose control, first version (three performances a day)
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8 people - choreographer, 4 dancers, 1 sound artist, 1 technician, 1 live-musician.
Special Requirements - one week residency before first performance to adjust the work to the
new site, 2 video projectors.
Length - approximately 55 minutes.
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Kommersant Moscow 459KB
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Quotes:
"Elegantly designed"
Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
"Vaguely sinister and lovely"
Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York
"Delightful and mysterious"
Dance Insider
"the movement of the dancers - both committed and unusual"
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blast wall art 2005 - Site-adapted Outdoor Dance Video Production |
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Blast wall art, choreographed by Andrea Haenggi,
was first performed at an outdoor handball court in New York City. This site-adapted
dance video performance explores issues of attack, injury and transformation through
art, loosely inspired by reading about the concrete blast walls of Baghdad, which protect
buildings against bombs but have become a public canvas for Iraqis. In a trio for two
dancers and video projections (augmented by a number of "action performers"), as day
gives way to dusk, the performers become increasingly swathed in grey tones while the
steadily magnifying video projection takes center stage with surreal phantasmagorical
images. The performance in New York was accompanied by noted free-jazz drummer William Hooker.
World Premiere
Commodore Barry Park Handball Courts, Brooklyn, NY | June 15-18, 2005
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3 people - choreographer and 2 dancers.
Four-day residency to adapt the work to the new site and work with 3-5 local "action performers" and
local musicians; no lighting or sound equipment needed; choreographer supplies video projector; the
only requirement is access to electricity (through an outlet or a car battery).
Length - approximately 40 minutes.
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Press Articles:
Gay City News 692KB
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escalator 2006 - a site-specific dance video installation |
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Commissioned by World Financial Center Arts & Events choreographer and
visual artist Andrea Haenggi and her New York-based Dance Arts Company AMDaT,
create a site-specific dance video installation escalator throughout
the giant World Financial Center complex. The work takes its inspiration
from the extraordinary architectural settings of the World Financial
Center atriums. With compact, emotionally charged movements, Haenggi
and AMDaT's dancers Einy Aam, Tori Sparks and guest performers Eric
Bradley, Jeff Crumrine, Blanca Cubillos-Roman and Uta Takemura will
lead the audience on a journey from one lobby to the next.
Each area
is staged as its own theater - moving from the quotidian to a futuristic
and surreal filmic world - culminating in the barrel-vaulted glass atrium,
the Winter Garden, where the performers are bathed in light from dizzying
video projections inspired from Haenggi's recent trip to Moscow.
Haenggi's
artistic team includes lighting designer Owen Hughes, costume designer Karen Young
and sound designer David Linton - who will be joined by live improvising
musicians Alexandra Mareculewicz, Charles Cohen, David Watson and William
Hooker.
World Premiere
World Financial Center Arts & Events, NYC | March 10-11, 2006
Commissioned by WFC Arts & Events
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Newsletter escalator 355KB
Press Articles:
downtown express 465KB
The Tribeca Trib 421KB
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The Yellow Ball 2006 - a site-specific dance installation |
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Choreographer Andrea Haenggi's piece
for Open for Dancing is a post-pop-art
happening. Reckless couples swirl around slow motion tennis players while the
ball boys and girls slither under the nets. A surrealistic tableau in Newport's
historic International Tennis Hall of Fame performed by AMDaT company member Einy
Aam with the Island Moving Company and community participants. Live vocals by
Alexandra Marculewicz. The Yellow Ball is com- missioned and produced by the
Island Moving Company.
World Premiere
Open for Dancing Festival, Newport, Rhode Island | September 23-24, 2006
Commissioned by Island Moving Dance Company
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2003 - 1998 (selection) |
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The ninth situation-2 took shape as I was reading The
Poetics of Space,
by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. Bachelard discusses how the
creation of a site, a location, a place, can condense quanta of detail,
but open out on immensity. Moved by this possibility, I decided to take a
specific look at our idea of home - a place that is at once real and virtual,
geometrical object and universal ideal. The ninth situation-2, is an
investigation of the perception of a living room-security and adventure,
cell and world, actual and transcendental.
World Premiere
London Fringe Festival, Ontario, Canada | August 10-18, 2002
an hour dance work for the theatre
Performances
Treffpunkt Rotebuehlplatz, Stuttgart, Germany | July 10-11, 2003
Presented by Treffpunkt Rotebuehlplatz
Construction Company Dance Gallery, NYC | Oct 27-28, 2002
Presented by Construction Company
the ninth situation-2, re-staged, an hour dance work for the theatre
fallen is an ostinato, a ritual prayer that can be performed
and repeated as long as desired. One phrase is one minutes and 30 seconds long.
The video images and sound of fallen are taking from a visit to Saragazi,
Istanbul, June 2002. The work is choreographed for four long horizontal low
altar steps and the past performances ranged up to 35 minutes.
World Premiere
Dance Access, St. Marks Church in the Bowery, NYC | Sept 5-7, 2002
Commissioned by Dankmeyer Dance Company
a looping site specific dance video installation, 35-minute work
The Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn meets avant-garde dance in
the person of Andrea Haenggi's AMDaT company and squaring the circle, a
site-specific dance and interactive video / sound installation inspired
by the people and architecture in the two-block-square of the urban park in Bushwick.
World Premiere
Maria Hernandez Park, community project, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC | October 2001
a interactive outdoor dance installation, 60-minute work
cradle rocking in quicksand is a non-narrative dance work that
takes its shape from the lives of women under fundamentalist rule. It journeys
through moments of the voyage women make in their lives: awakening,
restriction-subjugation, oppression, liberation-vulnerability, rebellion,
waiting and silence. The work started when I painted six portraits of a woman's
torso, naked, one knee crunched into her stomach, protecting herself from total
vulnerability by rocking. The paintings moving in space - front to back and back
to front. The time and speed of the moving paintings act as weapons, restricting
the space, changing the depth of field, challenging the performers. I worked with
an engineer to figure out a way to motorize them.
World Premiere
Joyce SoHo Theatre, New York | June 1-4, 2000
a 60-minute dance video work
echo chamber is a constantly mutating site-specific work.
It initially took shape when I was in the Czech Republic. I became intrigued
with the phenomenon of squatter housing and premiered the first embryonic
version of echo chamber at a squatter occupied building that was under siege
by the police. Echo chamber is a full evening piece and will grow in length
as it moves to additional sites. A mélange of dance, sound environment,
swiveling projected images and video, each moving part adds visual flare
and new facets of meaning.
World Premiere
Milada Culture Center, Prague, Czech Republic | March 12, 1999
40-minute solo work
The site-specific creation of al + one in a room was inspired
by my own experience watching the movement and life outside my windows,
and feeling the connection between being alone in a room and the lights of
the New York City outside. It is a dialogue of space / a dialogue between a
woman and a room / between a woman and a city. There is a dual narrative of a
dancer with a geometric costume representing the city and the transcendence of
a woman alone in a space. In the second half there is a sort of virtual pax de
deux in which the solo dancer performs in tandem with her own projected image
in a videotape I recorded in that same Brooklyn loft. After a while you don't
know, who is the dancer (on video) and who is the live dancer.
World Premiere
338 Berry St. Loft, Brooklyn, New York | December 1998
Performance
MASS MoCA, Massachusettes Contemporary Art Museum, North Adams | Jan 25, 2001
Presented by MASS MoCA | al+one in a room #2, re-staged |
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