Performers — Dasniya Sommer, Frances d’Ath

Background

A knot theory installation choreography from Dasniya Sommer and Frances d’Ath. First working period at Bains Connective, Brussels, November 2011. Continuing in 2012 in collaboration with Bassoonist Michael Garza in Guangzhou.

Details

The anarchy of knots or the n+2 dimensional space for n >1 or the rope was a plant.

The n+2 Dimensional Space for n>1 is blogged on supernaut

Daniel Schlusser is a theatre director and performer who lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Details

In 2011, Daniel Schlusser created Ophelia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, co-produced by Chamber Made Opera and Bell Shakespeare Mind’s Eye, premiering in November. I was choreographer, and assistant for the Japanese rope bondage.

black metal is a ballet in development

Details

Why this torture? For nothing, literally for nothing. The difficult technique of returning to zero. A path towards nakedness, indetermination, non-existence. The more I think, the less I am me. If I think something, I am that something. If I simply think, I am no longer anyone. In any case, me thinking, am nothing.

The more I dance, the more I am naked, absent, a calculation and a number, Dance is to the body proper what exercise of thought is to the subject known as I. The more I dance, the less I am me. If I dance something, I am that something, or I signify it. When I dance, I am only the blank body of the sign.

I know what Being is all about.

kill kill kill for inner peace… is in development.

Details

I wanna push you up against a wall and man-handle you a little tonight. Preferably in some dirty public toilet. Lean in to you so you can feel my crotch against you and squeeze your tits under your shirts, put my mouth over them, drag your hand down the front of my pants so you can feel how much I want you. Hold you by the hair and make you kiss me and take away your air so you have to fight me to breathe … I’m stronger than you and you’ll know it when we’re fucking — or when you don’t wanna fuck…

Performer — Frances d’Ath
Sound — Mayhem, Richard Wagner

Background

abjection is in rehearsals for performance in 2011

Details

Your subtitle is ‘Essai sur l’Abjection’ – how would you translate that term into english?
It may be impossible. L’abjection is something that disgusts you, for example you see something rotting and want to vomit – it is an extremely strong feeling that is at once somatic and symbolic, which is above all a revolt against an external menace from which one wants to distance oneself. But of which one has the impression that it may menace us from the inside.

abjection was blogged on supernaut.

Dancers — Daniel Jaber, Frances d’Ath
Sound — Throbbing Gristle, Converge, Richard Wagner

Background

pestilence was developed in Adelaide in April, May, 2008, supported by ArtsSA.

Details

Your subtitle is ‘Essai sur l’Abjection’ – how would you translate that term into english?
It may be impossible. L’abjection is something that disgusts you, for example you see something rotting and want to vomit – it is an extremely strong feeling that is at once somatic and symbolic, which is above all a revolt against an external menace from which one wants to distance oneself. But of which one has the impression that it may menace us from the inside.

pestilence was blogged on supernaut.

Dancers — Bonnie Paskas, Frances d’Ath, Lina Limosani
Sound — Sunn 0)))

Background

monadologie is a performance coming from an ANAT AIR Residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing between December 2007 and March 2008.

Details

monadologie is based in part on Gottfried Leibniz’s 1714 text monadologie.

monadologie was blogged on supernaut

Dancers — Daniel Jaber, Paea Leach, Tara Soh, Yang Hsiao-Hsuan
Sound — Acid Mothers Temple, Abruptum, Throbbing Gristle

Background

all the people i can remember sleeping with… was made for ADT Australian Dance Theatre’s Ignition7 – Gender Studies in 2008.

Details

A friend said, “You’re lucky, you get to do what we only theorise about.”
Judith said, “am I a gender after all? and do I ‘have’ a sexuality?”
Gilles said, “There are as many sexes as there are individuals”
Jean said I am not a ‘normal human’.
Ludwig said it’s everything that isn’t here that matters, and this is mostly senseless.
Xuan says, “public hair”. Daniel laughs. Paea says no one will know it’s about you. Tara says I name-drop.

all the people i can remember sleeping with… was blogged on supernaut

Dancers — Bonnie Paskas, Gala Moody
Sound — Boredoms (rehearsal); Glenn Gould – Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Variation 15 (film)
Camera & initial editing: Paul Williams
Second Camera: Marcus Dinnen
Assistant: Rhys Graham
Sound Recording: Bart Bee

Background

temperance was made over two weeks late at night in September, 2006 at the Temperance Hall in Napier St, South Melbourne, and filmed on 16mm.

Details

temperance is a return to pure choreography, based on Gilles Deleuze’s text The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, and Gottfried Leibniz’s texts Theodicée and Monadologie.

temperance was blogged on supernaut