before
i want to know about what it is to complete and repeat a performance piece.
after
my repetitions have to do with the number of minds i embody on stage. i take time to finish things.
demons of completion
and repetition
january 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 2008
at 8pm
Lower Ossington Theatre
pwyc-suggested $10
3 solo performances:
sound/DOUG
TIELLI: “In movement and constructions the release of sound”
How are we adorned and made? How does what we do and how we flow brush
up against things, cause frictions, flutterngs, rufflings, scrapings,
and direct connections?
Relaxing in outrageous costumes. Following a map to arrive in nowheresville.
butoh/CLAUDIA WITTMANN: “boundary no 1a”
"This piece is a butoh solo based on my relationship with my father,
and which has somewhat of a life of its own in my body. i have some resistance
around finding out how to complete and how to repeat this piece, partly
because i am not sure i can make a clear delineation between butoh performance
and my life, and partly because there is a voice in my head saying "this
piece can not be controlled".....
performance/PAUL COUILLARD: "Respond / Repeat / Reproduce : A Performance
Action Lecture"
This experimental lecture, unfolding through a series of short, interwoven
performance actions, addresses the issue of "repeatability"
in performance. What is an artist's responsibility with respect to two
conflicting desires: responding to the unique conditions of the moment;
or accurately reproducing a feeling, idea or experience for multiple audiences
or participants?
---- bios----
Doug Tielli is an amorphous musician-artist living in Toronto. No specialist, he is a song-writer, free-improviser, sound artist who plays trombone, guitar, banjo, saw, nose-flute, garbage, and situations. He is currently a member of The silt, Drumheller, No Man Band, The Reveries, and The Draperies. Of late, particularly with No Man Band and other electro-acoustic solos, his work has incorporated movement and simple sculpture.
Claudia Wittmann was born in Switzerland and she lives in Toronto since 1998. She works as a butoh performer since 2003, mostly in solos. Her work deals with body memory and it starts in her body. Her process is based on her butoh training with SU-EN who lives in Sweden and on her regular work with Toronto-based performance artist Paul Couillard who has been guiding her through the curricula of Jerzy Grotowski since January 2006. Claudia has a background in biology.
Paul Couillard has been working as an artist, curator, and organizer since 1985, focusing on performance art with forays into video, installation, and holography. He has created well over 100 solo and collaborative performance works in more than a dozen countries, often working with his partner Ed Johnson. His work seeks to build community through explorations of our bodies as vessels of sensation, experience, knowledge and spirit. He has a particular interest in considering the shared borders of our separate existences, searching for a language that can convey the complex layers of personal history, cultural/social specificity and the notion of shared or universal experience.
Boundary no1a, January 3rd, 2008
video stills: Alexandra Gelis
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