If it is true that contemporary theatre and performance in general - not just within Composed Theatre - challenges the separation of the art forms that had taken place in the second half of the eighteenth century, somehow recalling or bringing forward an integrated concept of theatre, then this should also lead to changes in an educational system in which interdisciplinary courses are still very rare In Kontra Danse, Kagel makes a choreography based on the classical ballet that calls explicitly for “non-dancers”. We’ve all done a lot of physical theatre training, exploring dance forms in a theatrical context for previous works [see Distraction Camp - 2009]. But we are physical theatre performers, not dancers. Kagel calls for the performers to be absolutely serious (this is not to be played for laughs) in their work towards achieving the form he requires. We are working on the ballet positions, port de bras, plies, pirouettes. The idea is to find a vocabulary of movement that can be assembled in various ways, later, with the musicians.
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Workshopping for The Mauricio Kagel Project has been exciting with a number of discoveries being made in relation to how music performance can playfully challenge audience expectations. This is going to be lots of fun - it is possible to see some parallels with our experiences in the Ubu Nights. But this really is something completely new. At the same time, in Chengdu (Sichuan), Gao Ping is developing work that engages with classical Chinese instruments and musical traditions - we're catching up with him next week. The aim is for this project to develop an ongoing "composed theatre" collaboration that takes us in new directions: The assumption is that, since the sixties, a field of artistic practice has arisen that is situated between the more classical conceptions - and institutions - of music, theatre and dance, and that is highly characterised and unified by making use of compositional strategies and techniques and, in a broader sense, by the application of compositional thinking. Image: from Spielplan 'Jungfraulichkeit'. Gao Ping is composing a new work for the project Image: from 'Tantz-Schul' Ballet d'action
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