imagetanz 2013 - brut wien

Two “evolved” human beings are in an undefined space/time dimension, drifting through the
vast dark cosmos. This trip is not after something, nor for any reason in particular. It‘s more
like a proof of paradox, of the absurdity and contradiction of human culture and the nature of
organisms. The two travelers are about to discover other ‘spaces’ connected to old human ideas of
„land“, „home“, „being foreign“, „being alien“ which will unravel lost and puzzling concepts, such
as „belonging“ and „ownership“- memories of the material world drifting in space as archeological
artifacts of an exhausted language. What would remain of the body and of the language in a
post-colonial space odyssey? Dedicated to: John Carpenter
Idee Agnieszka Dmochowska Konzept und Performance Agnieszka Dmochowska,
Mariana Tengner Barros Kostüm, Video, Requisiten António Mv Sound Alexander Kasses
Dramaturgische Unterstützung Hugo Vieira da Silva Licht Yosi Wanunu
Künstlerische Beratung Francisco Camacho
Eine Koproduktion von imagetanz/brut Wien, EIRA und Fat Sun Kunstverein.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) und des Polnischen Instituts Wien.
Dank an toxic dreams, Tanzquartier Wien, Forum Dança, o Rumo do Fumo, Real Pelágio und Tiago Cadete.
Agnieszka Dmochowska born in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in Vienna. She graduated
from the National Ballet School in Warsaw in 2000 and went on studying at the Institute for
Dance Arts/IDA in Linz, Austria. For 2 years she was a member of a postgraduate company
xIDA. Between 2006-2010 she has lived and worked as an independent performer and maker
in Brussels, Belgium. She has worked with choreographers, film directors and visual artists
among others: Andros Zins-Browne, Tom Heene, Kenji Oullet, Yael Davids. She collaborated in
an ensemble agnieszka&agnieszka, together with Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz, on a project Things
We Can Still Do On Stage (2008/09). In 2009 she was part of the group of the 50 years of dance
(flip book) directed by Boris Charmatz, in frames of Choreographer’s Venture at the ImPulsTanz
Festival in Vienna. The following year she assisted Davis Freeman in his project Too Shy To Stare.
Since 2010 she has been working mainly with Vienna based groups and independent makers,
a. o: Alexander Gottfarb, toxic dreams, Milli Bitterli, Oleg Soulimenko. She is collaborating continuously
with Karin Pauer, on a cycle of lecture presentations called nomasterpieces and at the
same time with Mariana Tengner Barros, a Portuguese performer and creator.
Mariana Tengner Barros lives and works in Lisbon as a performer and creator. She graduated
from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance-NSCD in 2003 and was an apprentice dancer
with Ballet Theatre Munich under the direction of Philip Taylor and one of the first Associated
Artist at NSCD. Furthermore she completed the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research
and Training Programe-PEPCC at Fórum Dança. Mariana is regularly supported and produced
by Eira. She created and performed the plays And So?…The End (2010); Après le bain (2011), The
Trap (2011) and Piece of The Heart: for him (2012). In 2009 she worked with Deborah Hay, as part
of The Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland, being awarded a scholarship
by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2009 she has been regularly working as
a performer with the Portuguese choreographer Francisco Camacho in various projects. As a
performer she also collaborates frequently with the Portuguese theater director John Romão
and playwriter Mickael de Oliveira (Colectivo 84) and highlights the collaboration in projects
by Abraham Hurtado and Vânia Rovisco- AADK, Pedro Bandeira, Rafael Alvarez, Carlota Lagido,
Andreas Dyrdal, André Guedes, João Pedro Vale/Nuno Alexandre Ferreira and Mark Tompkins.
She has been a Guest Choreography Lecturer at The Northern School of contemporary Dance
(UK).