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Martina Ruhsam
Choreography. Immediacy. Failure
Still unknown? by Jeroen Peters / Martina Ruhsam / Vlado Repnik was
commissioned by and premiered at Tanzquartier Wien on December 2th 2009.
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Martina Ruhsam Choreography. Immediacy. Failure
Let ’s try to approach choreography by thinking about
immediacy, a phenomenon that seems to be an opponent of
intentional creations, that cannot be rehearsed and therefor
usually evades choreographic processes. Every attempt to
stage immediacy is condemned to FAILURE. If I think
about IMMEDIACy I see the dancing plastic bag in the film
» American Beauty « (directed by Sam Mendes) that is moved
in and by the wind, probably the most famous plastic bag in
this moment, a part of the cultural memory of several millions
of people. (Maybe the plastic bag was not really moved by the
wind but by some ventilators that were placed outside of the
scope of the camera.) It dances a fascinating choreography that
doesn ’t have any author. Or can ’t we talk about a choreography
in this case for the very reason that the author is lacking and
that the movements of the plastic bag were neither rehearsed,
nor do they derive from a writing process? Does immediacy
have something to do with being moved instead of moving?
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Martina Ruhsam Choreography. Immediacy. Failure