Salamon Eszter: Dance°1 Driftworks

Duration: 60’
 

Dance #1 / Driftworks is a continuation of the research Eszter Salamon began in Nvsbl (in technology of body expressions, based on specific body practices (Body-Mind Centering etc) and processes of observation, imagination, sensation and memory of various "body-systems". The expressions result from the internal physical compositional work more than from representing characters and psychological states in their image.
 

Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer living in Berlin. Following her classical dance studies at the National Academy of Dance in Budapest, she moves to France in 1992 and works with choreographers such as Mathilde Monnier and Francois Verret. Since 2001, she creates her own work: the solos What A Body You Have, Honey (2001) and Giszelle (2001) in collaboration with Xavier le Roy for ‘Le vif du sujet’ at the Festival d'Avignon and the group pieces Reproduction (2004) at Podewil, Berlin where she is artist-in-residence, Magyar Tàncok (2005) with Hungarian folk dancers and musicians at «Les Intranquilles» festival in Lyon, the quartet Nvsbl (2006) at the PACT Zollverein, Essen, the film-choreography AND THEN (2007) at Les Subsistances, Lyon and the concert-performance Without You I Am Nothing (2007) in collaboration with Aranxta Martinez. Her latest work, Dance#1/ Driftworks, duo with Christine De Smedt, is created at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts08, Brussels. In 2008, she participates in 6Month1Location, an artistic research project based on self-organisation and self-education at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier.
 

Part of the piece "AND THEN" - VIDEO
 

Concept: Eszter SALAMON
Dance and Choreography: Christine DE SMEDT, Eszter SALAMON
Lighting design: Sylvie GAROT
Sound: Terre THAEMLITZ
Technical direction: Raphael VINCENT
Production, organization: Alexandra WELLENSIEK
Production assistant/ realization costumes: Isabelle DECANNIÈRE
 

Coproduced by:
Choreographisches Zentrum NRW - PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Les Spectacles Vivants-Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), steirischer herbst (Graz)
 

Supported by:
Hebbel-Am-Ufer (Berlin) and Botschaft (Berlin)