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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
Tour Info
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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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)
Tour Info
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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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"
danceviewnewyork
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
Tour Info
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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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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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)
squaring the circle 2001 squaring the circle 2001 squaring the circle 2001 cradle rocking in quicksand 2000 cradle rocking in quicksand 2000
echo chamber 1999 echo chamber 1999 echo chamber 1999 al + one in a room 1998 al + one in a room 1998
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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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