Bitef

We tried to create a situation that would enable us, without any external influence, to get as close as possible to ourselves. Trying to see what our own self amounts up to even before the question Is asked how to present that to an audience. That's the point in which we meet in the performance. That's why there is a lot of emptiness and uncertainty in this piece. It is in fact an impossible task. Meg Stuart

Along with her choreography, Meg Stuart has also been teaching workshops in composition and improvisation at organisations such as Forum Dança in Lisbon, Movement Research in New York, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and ImPulsTanz in Vienna. In 2000 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods received the Culture Prize K.U.Leuven. In 2006 Meg Stuart received the Deutsche Theaterpreis DER FAUST for her choreography of REPLACEMENT. PHILIPP GEHMACHER was born in Salzburg in 1975 where he spent his childhood. His adolescent years were spent in Vienna. He went to the London Contemporary Dance School in 1993, and received his BA in Contemporary Dance three years later. After initial pieces of choreography and work as a performer he enrolled for an MA Dance Studies at Laban Centre London, which he was awarded in 1999. After ten years in London he returned to Vienna in 2003. During his last years in London he choreographed the pieces in the absence. Holes and Bodies and embroyder. For the opening of Tanzquartier Wien in 2001 he created the duet good enough, which after a period of international touring was reworked with the choreographer Raimund Hoghe in 2004 and last shown at Österreich Tanzt 06. With mountains are mountains he presented his first evening length group piece co-produced by Springdance Utrecht, Tanzquartier Wien, Podewil Berlin and Vooruit Gent in 2003. During the season 2004/05 he realised the project incubator, which was created during four residencies in Vienna, Berlin, Brussels and Lyon. The co-producing partners Tanzquartier Wien, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kaaitheater Brussel and Les Subsistances Lyon were each presented a unique piece and version. In spring 2006 the solo das überkreuzen beyder hande with the pianist Alexander Lonquich, initiated by Mozarteum Salzburg, Szene Salzburg and ImPulsTanz Wien, premiered at the Dialoge Festival at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Upon an invitation of Montpellier Danse Festival 06 Philipp Gehmacher created in the frame of Le Vif de Sujet the solo between now and then for the French dancer Frédéric Schranckenmuller. Over the past years Philipp Gehmacher's choreographic works have been shown at numerous festivals and theatres like Podewil Berlin, Vooruit Gent, Beursschouwburg Brussel, The Place Theatre London, Nottdance Nottingham, impulsTanz Wien, Springdance Utrecht, dietheater Wien, Szene Salzburg, Kultur Kongresshaus Luzern, Dans in Kortrijk, Desviaciones Madrid, Fourdays Prague, Panacea Stockholm, Mousonturm Frankfurt, CC Maasmechelen, Tramway Glasgow etc. 2001 Philipp Gehmacher was the Austrian participant of the EU-project, apap initiated by Szene Salzburg with residencies in Kortrijk, Berlin and Lisbon. 2002 he was touring with the dance roads network organised by dietheater Wien to Montréal, Cardiff, Luxembourg, Berlin, Lucerne, Vienna and Istre. Philipp Gehmacher's choreographies have been shown at the Austrian Dance Edition 2002, 2004 and 2006.

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