ENCOUNTERS

durational performance (broadcast) ⏳ 50 hours

ENCOUNTERS

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In Alexander Gottfarb’s latest piece, Negotiations, 13 dancers from different generations came together and, in turns, filled the TQW Filiale in Neustiftgasse with dance for eight hours a day, for 365 days. An important aspect of Negotiations was to highlight and make visible the fact that dancing is also a form of highly skilled and physically demanding labour. His new work, Encounters, can be placed on the same line of artistic inquiry and sees Gottfarb continue his artistic (and non-artistic) questioning of the relationship between choreography, art making and the post-Fordist capitalist society. Encounters is an attempt to “work” without producing material goods or consumer services.

What results is a long, continuous dance, taking place in a workspace in Vienna over a whole weekend.

https://tqw.at/en/event/encounters-gottfarb/

Concept, production development: Alexander Gottfarb
Performers: Esther Balfe, Alex Deutinger, Soraya Emery, Alexander Gottfarb, Katharina Illnar, Nanina Kotlowsky, Martyna Lorenc, Raul Maia, Anna Maria Nowak, Patric Redl, Charlotta Ruth
Dramaturgy: Guy Cools
Costume design: Karin Pauer
Music: Sophie AugotGuenther Berger, Alexander Gottfarb, Raul Maia, Stephan Sperlich
Composition: Guenther Berger, Stephan Sperlich
Video: Ulrich Reiterer
Production: mollusca productions
Administrative support: Smart Austria
Supported by: Encounters is a production of Archipelago in co-production with Tanzquartier Wien. With kind support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and Arbeitsplatz Wien.
Duration: 50 hrs, broadcasted on 4.12.2020 at 18:00 - 6.12.2020 at 20:00

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photo credit: (C) Kati Göttfried

ENCOUNTERS

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4plus1 (2014)performance

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