MONUMENT 0.1: VALDA & GUS
27 NOV 2016
Information: due to health problems of one of the dancers, "Monument 0.1: Valda & Gus" will not be presented. In order to replace it, will be presented a performance-documentary called "Melodrama" and interpreted by Eszter Salomon.More info here.
MONUMENT 0.1: Valda & Gus by the choreographer, artist and performer Eszter Salamon and interpreted thanks to the combined elegance of two outstanding New York performers – Valda Setterfield (born 1934) and Robert Gus Solomons Jr. (born 1940) –, is the second work in a series whose production is planned over the next three years, questioning the way in which a performance becomes a conveyor of meaning and society, based on laws other than those which govern the arena of political life.
After a series of interviews conducted with Valda Setterfield and Gus Solomons Jr. about their artistic careers and practices, Salamon writes a script that reveals their personal experience, and highlights how their careers have constantly espoused the currents of history for the past six decades. By linking bodies, words and gestures, the performers build in MONUMENT 0.1:Valda & Gus a composition where they combine passages of time and stories of the past.
Somewhere between living pictures (tableaux vivants) and performative installation, well-suited to contemplation, MONUMENT 0.1:Valda & Gus evokes what was written yesterday, and shows how that yesterday can suddenly be given back to us thanks to the power of intrusion, which all memory promises. Above all, it permits this free interplay of memory, capable of connecting the dimensions of art praxis with each other—the dimension of works, and that of life forms.
MONUMENT 0.1: Valda & Gus integrates a series of works where Eszter Salamon reconsiders the 20th century in reference to Dance History. Proposing an alternative perspective about the world and inverting the logic that so often refuses performers the right to be placed within the course of historiography of art, the work is keen to render palpable this feeling of time in which each spectator may at once see and re-see the gestures of those performing in his/her presence, and experience their voices and their words as time grows denser.
Technical CreditsArtistic Direction: Eszter SalamonConcept and dramaturgy: Eszter Salamon and Christophe WaveletPerformance: Valda Setterfield and Gus Solomons Jr.Technical Direction: Pierre Willems and Rima Bem BrahimTechinal Lighting: Sylvie GarotCostumes: Adeline AndréPuppets: Gus Solomons Jr.Production: Sandra Orain / Studio E.S., Alexandra Wellensiek / Botschaft GbrOrganization: Sandra OrainTranscription: Simon Pleasance, Richard Gray, Samir Sellami, Verena Kutschera, Gabriella DochertyCoproduction: LE CND, un centre d’art pour la danse, PACT Zollverein (Essen), Tanzquartier (Vienna), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Internationales Sommerfestival-Kampnagel, Hamburg.
With the support of: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - DRAC Île-de-France, Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN), Coproduction Fund and International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag, Institut Français à Paris, FUSED, Fondation Dar al-Ma’mûn, PARADIGM, Nanterre-AmandiersThanks to: French Institut Alliance Française New York, Julie Harrington
Eszter Salamon is an artist associated to CND, Centre National de la Dance.
Imagem: @Ursula Kaufmann ESZTER SALAMON CHRISTOPHE WAVELET VALDA SETTERFIELD GUS SOLOMONS JR
ESZTER SALAMON is a Hungarian choreographer, dancer and performer, living in Berlin and Paris. Her work has been internationally presented in the context of the performance and visual arts. She is the author of the solos „What A Body You Have, Honey" (2001) and „Giszelle" (2001) in collaboration with Xavier Le Roy, and „Dance for Nothing" (2010). Among her group performances are: „Reproduction" (2004), „Magyar Tàncok" (2005), „Nvsbl" (2006), „AND THEN" (2007) in collaboration with Bojana Cvejic, „Without You I Am Nothing" (2007) together with Arantxa Martinez, „Dance#1/Driftworks" (2008), and „Dance#2" (2011) with Christine de Smedt. In 2011, she created TALES OF THE BODILESS" with Bojana Cvejic, Cédric Dambrain and Terre Thaemlitz, and „Melodrama" (2012), a solo ‚documentary performance’.
In 2014, she created a group piece for six dancers: Monument 0: Haunted by war (1913-2013) and was invited by the Jeu de Paume in Paris to present a performative exhibition: Eszter Salamon 1949 (October – November 2014).As a dancer, she collaborated with Sidonie Rochon, Mathilde Monnier and FrançoisVerret.
Since 2001, she has been creating solo and group works that have been presented in performing arts venues and festivals throughout the world including Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou Metz, The Kitchen New York, Kaai Theater Brussels, HAU Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, TheatreWorks Singapore, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Avignon Festival, Festival d’Automne Paris, Holland Festival, steirischer herbst, Berlin Documentary Forum, Panorama Rio de Janeiro, Movimiento Sur Valparaiso, Dance Triennale Tokyo. She is frequently invited to present her work in museums, including MoMa, Witte de With, and Fondation Cartier.
A former performer, Christophe Wavelet has co-directed the activities of the Knust Project (1993-2001), a performance collective (1993-2001) focusing on performative reenactments, and artistic appropriations, as well as the publication of the french political journal Vacarme (1996-2000). Head of the International Research Dpt at Centre national de la danse in Paris, he has collaborated to numerous international manifestations and exhibitions, conferences and publications, both as a curator, scholar and critic. Interested in projects whose priority is at once experimental and discursive, regardless of any medium specificity and within different cultural areas, he has operated as artistic director for LiFE, a cross-disciplinary and transnational contemporary art venue (2005-2010). He currently teaches in various European art schools such as P.A.R.T.S and ERG (Brussels, Belgium), ESSAI (Angers, France), EX.er.CE (Montpellier, France). A fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2011-2013, he’s currently working on an essay as well as on the french translation of the french translation of the essays by Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica.
VALDA SETTERFIELD (born 1934), British born dancer/actress has worked with: Woody Allen, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Merce Cunningham, Richard Foreman, Brian DePalma, David Gordon, Ivo van Hove, Marie Rambert, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Wilson. She has worked at: the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, New York Theatre Workshop at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, Danspace Project, Soho Rep. The Public. She has received an OBIE award for her career and in 1984, a Dance and Performance Award in New York (Bessie), then a second Bessie in 2006 for the exceptional nature of her career. She has been a member of the Pick Up Performance Company(S) since its creation. In 1994, she danced in Exhibit A Thin Frost by Gus Solomons Jr. and participated in other projects of the company Paradigm.
GUS SOLOMONS JR (born en1940), is a dancer, choreographer, dance critic and accomplished actor. He is a key figure in the American postmodern dance. In particular, he danced with Martha Clarke, Pearl Lang, Donald McKayle, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. As a choreographer, he has created his own company in 1972, the Solomons Company / Dance. He graduated in architecture at MIT and teaches dance as a professor of art history at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He writes about dance for specialized magazines and online journals. Solomons received a 1999-2000 New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. "Bessie") for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. In 2001, Solomons was the first recipient of the annual Robert A. Muh Award for a distinguished artist/alumnus of M.I.T. In 2004, he was honored by receiving the American Dance Festival’s Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. In 1996, he created the trio Paradigm with the objective to "promote and celebrate the talents of mature artists on stage," today, the company have toured throughout the United States.
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MONUMENT 0.1: Valda & Gus by the choreographer, artist and performer Eszter Salamon and interpreted thanks to the combined elegance of two outstanding New York performers – Valda Setterfield (born 1934) and Robert Gus Solomons Jr. (born 1940) –, is the second work in a series whose production is planned over the next three years, questioning the way in which a performance becomes a conveyor of meaning and society, based on laws other than those which govern the arena of political life.
After a series of interviews conducted with Valda Setterfield and Gus Solomons Jr. about their artistic careers and practices, Salamon writes a script that reveals their personal experience, and highlights how their careers have constantly espoused the currents of history for the past six decades. By linking bodies, words and gestures, the performers build in MONUMENT 0.1:Valda & Gus a composition where they combine passages of time and stories of the past.
Somewhere between living pictures (tableaux vivants) and performative installation, well-suited to contemplation, MONUMENT 0.1:Valda & Gus evokes what was written yesterday, and shows how that yesterday can suddenly be given back to us thanks to the power of intrusion, which all memory promises. Above all, it permits this free interplay of memory, capable of connecting the dimensions of art praxis with each other—the dimension of works, and that of life forms.
MONUMENT 0.1: Valda & Gus integrates a series of works where Eszter Salamon reconsiders the 20th century in reference to Dance History. Proposing an alternative perspective about the world and inverting the logic that so often refuses performers the right to be placed within the course of historiography of art, the work is keen to render palpable this feeling of time in which each spectator may at once see and re-see the gestures of those performing in his/her presence, and experience their voices and their words as time grows denser.
Technical CreditsArtistic Direction: Eszter SalamonConcept and dramaturgy: Eszter Salamon and Christophe WaveletPerformance: Valda Setterfield and Gus Solomons Jr.Technical Direction: Pierre Willems and Rima Bem BrahimTechinal Lighting: Sylvie GarotCostumes: Adeline AndréPuppets: Gus Solomons Jr.Production: Sandra Orain / Studio E.S., Alexandra Wellensiek / Botschaft GbrOrganization: Sandra OrainTranscription: Simon Pleasance, Richard Gray, Samir Sellami, Verena Kutschera, Gabriella DochertyCoproduction: LE CND, un centre d’art pour la danse, PACT Zollverein (Essen), Tanzquartier (Vienna), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Internationales Sommerfestival-Kampnagel, Hamburg.
With the support of: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - DRAC Île-de-France, Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN), Coproduction Fund and International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag, Institut Français à Paris, FUSED, Fondation Dar al-Ma’mûn, PARADIGM, Nanterre-AmandiersThanks to: French Institut Alliance Française New York, Julie Harrington
Eszter Salamon is an artist associated to CND, Centre National de la Dance.
Imagem: @Ursula Kaufmann ESZTER SALAMON CHRISTOPHE WAVELET VALDA SETTERFIELD GUS SOLOMONS JR
ESZTER SALAMON is a Hungarian choreographer, dancer and performer, living in Berlin and Paris. Her work has been internationally presented in the context of the performance and visual arts. She is the author of the solos „What A Body You Have, Honey" (2001) and „Giszelle" (2001) in collaboration with Xavier Le Roy, and „Dance for Nothing" (2010). Among her group performances are: „Reproduction" (2004), „Magyar Tàncok" (2005), „Nvsbl" (2006), „AND THEN" (2007) in collaboration with Bojana Cvejic, „Without You I Am Nothing" (2007) together with Arantxa Martinez, „Dance#1/Driftworks" (2008), and „Dance#2" (2011) with Christine de Smedt. In 2011, she created TALES OF THE BODILESS" with Bojana Cvejic, Cédric Dambrain and Terre Thaemlitz, and „Melodrama" (2012), a solo ‚documentary performance’.
In 2014, she created a group piece for six dancers: Monument 0: Haunted by war (1913-2013) and was invited by the Jeu de Paume in Paris to present a performative exhibition: Eszter Salamon 1949 (October – November 2014).As a dancer, she collaborated with Sidonie Rochon, Mathilde Monnier and FrançoisVerret.
Since 2001, she has been creating solo and group works that have been presented in performing arts venues and festivals throughout the world including Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou Metz, The Kitchen New York, Kaai Theater Brussels, HAU Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, TheatreWorks Singapore, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Avignon Festival, Festival d’Automne Paris, Holland Festival, steirischer herbst, Berlin Documentary Forum, Panorama Rio de Janeiro, Movimiento Sur Valparaiso, Dance Triennale Tokyo. She is frequently invited to present her work in museums, including MoMa, Witte de With, and Fondation Cartier.
A former performer, Christophe Wavelet has co-directed the activities of the Knust Project (1993-2001), a performance collective (1993-2001) focusing on performative reenactments, and artistic appropriations, as well as the publication of the french political journal Vacarme (1996-2000). Head of the International Research Dpt at Centre national de la danse in Paris, he has collaborated to numerous international manifestations and exhibitions, conferences and publications, both as a curator, scholar and critic. Interested in projects whose priority is at once experimental and discursive, regardless of any medium specificity and within different cultural areas, he has operated as artistic director for LiFE, a cross-disciplinary and transnational contemporary art venue (2005-2010). He currently teaches in various European art schools such as P.A.R.T.S and ERG (Brussels, Belgium), ESSAI (Angers, France), EX.er.CE (Montpellier, France). A fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2011-2013, he’s currently working on an essay as well as on the french translation of the french translation of the essays by Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica.
VALDA SETTERFIELD (born 1934), British born dancer/actress has worked with: Woody Allen, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Merce Cunningham, Richard Foreman, Brian DePalma, David Gordon, Ivo van Hove, Marie Rambert, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Wilson. She has worked at: the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, New York Theatre Workshop at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, Danspace Project, Soho Rep. The Public. She has received an OBIE award for her career and in 1984, a Dance and Performance Award in New York (Bessie), then a second Bessie in 2006 for the exceptional nature of her career. She has been a member of the Pick Up Performance Company(S) since its creation. In 1994, she danced in Exhibit A Thin Frost by Gus Solomons Jr. and participated in other projects of the company Paradigm.
GUS SOLOMONS JR (born en1940), is a dancer, choreographer, dance critic and accomplished actor. He is a key figure in the American postmodern dance. In particular, he danced with Martha Clarke, Pearl Lang, Donald McKayle, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. As a choreographer, he has created his own company in 1972, the Solomons Company / Dance. He graduated in architecture at MIT and teaches dance as a professor of art history at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He writes about dance for specialized magazines and online journals. Solomons received a 1999-2000 New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. "Bessie") for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. In 2001, Solomons was the first recipient of the annual Robert A. Muh Award for a distinguished artist/alumnus of M.I.T. In 2004, he was honored by receiving the American Dance Festival’s Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. In 1996, he created the trio Paradigm with the objective to "promote and celebrate the talents of mature artists on stage," today, the company have toured throughout the United States.
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