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skinSITEs
a site-specific multi-media dance performance



Next Show:
  August 7 -10, 2008
Angel Angle
Porec Street Art Festival
Porec (Croatia)
 
 

Credits:
Concept / Artistic Direction / Video: Hiroko Tanahashi
Dramaturgy: Max Schumacher


[Short Documentation Video: skinSITEs ver. XI cell / out]



"skinSITEs" is an ongoing series of site-specific video-performances. After venues in Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and Switzerland the project now has reached Japan. The concept is a traveling concept that is produced completely anew for each version | each time with a local dancer and a local gstoryh that reflects the history and the present of a building. To be more specific: the performance space is always a window or door, hence, an in-between space that is covering one space from the outside.

" Windowh comes etymologically from gwind eyeh, as much as a gfacadeh is the gfaceh of a building. So skinSITEs merges the body of a building and with the body of a performer | it plays with hiding bodies and revealing them. Hide-and-seek is not just a childrenfs game, but a technique to approach ontology: in absence you can find presence.

post theater works frequently on what we call gstaging disappearanceh. Theater | the gplace of seeingh becomes a space where perception | and the lack of it - is challenged. We live in times of permanent availability of visual and other information. By intentionally reducing and de-constructing media perception, post theater tries to enhance the media that constitute a live performance | including the live bodies of a building, and a dancer.


<History>
  title venue/date
1

Olga's Wall Brewery into ruin
2002/DessauiGermanyj
Dancer/choreographer: Ana Vilenica
2 turn over Theater in transition
Theater am Halleschen Ufer
2003/BerliniGermanyj
Dancer/choreographer: Kathinka Walter
3 re:current@ Power station into a dance thetater
City of Women Festival
2004/ Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Dancer/choreographer: Valentina Ciabro
4 archLive
Inbetween an archive and a cafe
Patravadi Theater
2004/BangkokiThailandj
Dancer/choreographer: Saroche gTimh Placktag
5 rawHide Tannery into sculpture museum
Dance Week Festival
2005/ZagrebiCroatia)
Dancer/choreographer: Selma Banic
6 larger larger
Brwery into cultural complex
Stromereien Festival
2005/ZurichiSwitzerlandj
Dancer/choreographer: Nurya Egger
7 open account Harbour storage into art space
BankART 1929
2005/Yokohama (Japan)
Dancer/choreographer: Alice Hiiragi
8 PrePhase Fame in transition
Yamaguchi Center for Media Arts
2005/YamaguhiiJapanj
Dancer/choreographer: Richi Owaki
9 Past Tune Japanese radio station into human rights museum
Taipei 228Memorial Museum
2007/Taipei (Taiwan)
Dancer/choreographer: Der-Fong Ke
10 Angel Angle A church
2007 /Street Art Festival
Porec (Croatia)
Dancer/choreographer: Zak Valenta
11 Cell Out a former prison turned into a contemporary art museum
DA2 / 2008 / Festival Castila y Leon, Salamanca (Spain)
Dancer/choreographer: Alicia Soto
12 Cargography A town square in transformation
2008 /Rijeka Summer Night Festival
Rijeka (Croatia)
Dancer/choreographer: Selma Banich, Zak Valenta
     
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