1. Mar 25
    2012

    play bauhaus in London at Barbican

    http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13376
    2012 June 23rd/24th

     

  2. Sep 29
    2011

    play bauhaus - jam out in dessau / october 13t-15th 2011

    next: “play bauhaus - jam out” at the bauhaus stage / october 14th and 15th: 8pm / as a part of the festival congress “vorstellungsvermoegen” / + installations “play bauhaus - move the space”: open october 13th-15th: 10am-6pm bauhaus building dessau / www.bauhaus-dessau.de 

     

  3. play bauhaus – lichtballett/ ballet of light / Torsten Blume, Monika Částková, Helena Šťávová, Marie Janečková, Dana Palátová, Kateřina Blažková, Adéla Petáková, Monika Šmídová: 7 dancers present an extraordinary performance and movement laboratory at the west exit of the Dessau Main Station, using public furniture and installations and in the midst of additionally positioned cubes. Its theme is the human body in dialogue with architectural forms as rhythm model. The performance is approached in the same elementally experimental mode as that practised by Oskar Schlemmer from 1026 to 1929 in his “Bauhaus Dances”, as well as with inspiration from the ergonomic studies of the 1920s. The dancers conceive their bodies – which are accentuated by light sources – as experimental instruments; they not only measure the space and all those present within it, but at the same time reinforce and modulate them by means of their movements and thus make them perform. http://www.farbfest-dessau.de 

    play bauhaus – lichtballett/ ballet of light / Torsten Blume, Monika Částková, Helena Šťávová, Marie Janečková, Dana Palátová, Kateřina Blažková, Adéla Petáková, Monika Šmídová: 7 dancers present an extraordinary performance and movement laboratory at the west exit of the Dessau Main Station, using public furniture and installations and in the midst of additionally positioned cubes. Its theme is the human body in dialogue with architectural forms as rhythm model. The performance is approached in the same elementally experimental mode as that practised by Oskar Schlemmer from 1026 to 1929 in his “Bauhaus Dances”, as well as with inspiration from the ergonomic studies of the 1920s. The dancers conceive their bodies – which are accentuated by light sources – as experimental instruments; they not only measure the space and all those present within it, but at the same time reinforce and modulate them by means of their movements and thus make them perform. http://www.farbfest-dessau.de 

     

  4. about play bauhaus in taiwan

    http://news.chinatimes.com/reading/51303143/112011082200387.html

     

  5. play bauhaus – jam out. 31 August 2011 3.30 pm / Staatstheater Mainz /A cooperation of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau with the Chamber of Architects / rehearsal 

    play bauhaus – jam out. 31 August 2011 3.30 pm / Staatstheater Mainz /A cooperation of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau with the Chamber of Architects / rehearsal 

     

  6. Sep 18
    2011

    Play Bauhaus- Take a chair

    Play Bauhaus- take a chair

    The 3- day workshop aimed to explore and design a set wich is demanding or at least motivating and supporting motion or dance. Based on a refletion of historical Bauhausdancer by Oscar Schlemmer (developed 1926-29 in Dessau) the participants have been working with different but very simple movements (walking, jumping) and objects (sticks). the set was based on some basic acting rules. After a series of experiments it has been decided to force on a different defined acting zone and the interaction between body and chairs.

     

  7. Aug 24
    2011
    play bauhaus - jam out / 9.7.2011 / Hygiene-Museum Dresden (Museum of Man Dresden) / next performance: play bauhaus – jam out. 31 August 2011 3.30 pm / Staatstheater Mainz /A cooperation of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau with the Chamber of Architects of Rhineland-Palatinate Artistic director: Torsten Blume (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) Concept: Torsten Blume and Yun-Ju Chen / Dancers: Pavla Vařáková, Kateřina Blažková, Monika Částková, Radim Klásek, Marie Janečková, Monika Šmídová, Helena Štávová(dancers from “bosky o.s.”, Prague) and Ayako Toyama (Berlin) / Sound: Shintaro Imai (Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo) The performance series “play bauhaus – jam out” is a contemporary exploration of Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances, which he developed in Dessau from 1926 to 1929. “play bauhaus” focuses on their interpretation as “dances in a space”, that is, as the danced adaptation of the available theatre space, comprehended in the literal sense as a dynamic system inhabited by bodies. In a manifestly formal play of movement, 8 dancers act on the one hand as figural measuring instruments, and on the other explore and demonstrate in dialogue with their environment the degree to which they participate in its complexity. The dancers do this by letting themselves be guided as much by the proportions and structures of the space as they are by an actually enacted choreography. The scene for “play bauhaus – jam out” is defined by the “bauhaus stage studio satellite” (bsss; an installation made of white columns, cubes, tables and other objects, which as a performance space and spatial laboratory models and quotes 1:1 the stage space integrated into the Dessau Bauhaus building. The “bsss” was at first developed by Torsten Blume for the site-specific presentation at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial (www.pq.cz) and has been used since then in various locations as mobile project and performance stage of the Dessau Bauhaus Stage Studio, most recently on 9 July 2011 in the Hygiene Museum in Dresden. “play bauhaus – jam out” explores the theme of Schlemmer’s “Tänzermenschen” – “dancer people” as a “beings spellbound by space” and updates them at the same time as individual operators, who research and accept the space around them – their environment – with all the bodies and objects found in it, adapting themselves to it as they do so. The space itself is thus made to perform. This means the performance adapts Schlemmer’s system of dance and architecture in a deliberately pedestrian way as central rule of the game, also as a perspective for new experiments using the tools of a rhythmic, dynamic production in a given space. Here it is primarily the body that is addressed in a permanently pedestrian form of communication and feedback with its environment. In this context, “play bauhaus – jam out” is also an environmental model, which operates with numerous non-hierarchic actors and instruments. The dancers are bodies and phenomena that communicate and discover through other bodies and phenomena how communication functions within a specific channel. In this way we can learn more about the communicability of the inhabited spatial system and be able to feed this knowledge anew into the system. The dancers move from one form to the next in a pedestrian way, in a permanent process of translation from form into dynamics, as if seeking for a meaning hidden in this artificial parallel world. These transformations expand this special world, in which dance seems to be a metaphor of a human action; and this world extends so far until the logic and energy of the system engendering it is contaminated and nullified. So what happens in the end is that in a seemingly closed system such as that of the early Bauhaus intentions we can discover new degrees of freedom and possibilities. 

    play bauhaus - jam out / 9.7.2011 / Hygiene-Museum Dresden (Museum of Man Dresden) / next performance:

    play bauhaus – jam out. 31 August 2011 3.30 pm / Staatstheater Mainz /A cooperation of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau with the Chamber of Architects of Rhineland-Palatinate

    Artistic director: Torsten Blume (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) Concept: Torsten Blume and Yun-Ju Chen / Dancers: Pavla Vařáková, Kateřina Blažková, Monika Částková, Radim Klásek, Marie Janečková, Monika Šmídová, Helena Štávová(dancers from “bosky o.s.”, Prague) and Ayako Toyama (Berlin) / Sound: Shintaro Imai (Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo)

    The performance series “play bauhaus – jam out” is a contemporary exploration of Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances, which he developed in Dessau from 1926 to 1929. “play bauhaus” focuses on their interpretation as “dances in a space”, that is, as the danced adaptation of the available theatre space, comprehended in the literal sense as a dynamic system inhabited by bodies. In a manifestly formal play of movement, 8 dancers act on the one hand as figural measuring instruments, and on the other explore and demonstrate in dialogue with their environment the degree to which they participate in its complexity. The dancers do this by letting themselves be guided as much by the proportions and structures of the space as they are by an actually enacted choreography.

    The scene for “play bauhaus – jam out” is defined by the “bauhaus stage studio satellite” (bsss; an installation made of white columns, cubes, tables and other objects, which as a performance space and spatial laboratory models and quotes 1:1 the stage space integrated into the Dessau Bauhaus building. The “bsss” was at first developed by Torsten Blume for the site-specific presentation at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial (www.pq.cz) and has been used since then in various locations as mobile project and performance stage of the Dessau Bauhaus Stage Studio, most recently on 9 July 2011 in the Hygiene Museum in Dresden.

    “play bauhaus – jam out” explores the theme of Schlemmer’s “Tänzermenschen” – “dancer people” as a “beings spellbound by space” and updates them at the same time as individual operators, who research and accept the space around them – their environment – with all the bodies and objects found in it, adapting themselves to it as they do so.

    The space itself is thus made to perform. This means the performance adapts Schlemmer’s system of dance and architecture in a deliberately pedestrian way as central rule of the game, also as a perspective for new experiments using the tools of a rhythmic, dynamic production in a given space. Here it is primarily the body that is addressed in a permanently pedestrian form of communication and feedback with its environment. In this context, “play bauhaus – jam out” is also an environmental model, which operates with numerous non-hierarchic actors and instruments.

    The dancers are bodies and phenomena that communicate and discover through other bodies and phenomena how communication functions within a specific channel. In this way we can learn more about the communicability of the inhabited spatial system and be able to feed this knowledge anew into the system. The dancers move from one form to the next in a pedestrian way, in a permanent process of translation from form into dynamics, as if seeking for a meaning hidden in this artificial parallel world. These transformations expand this special world, in which dance seems to be a metaphor of a human action; and this world extends so far until the logic and energy of the system engendering it is contaminated and nullified. So what happens in the end is that in a seemingly closed system such as that of the early Bauhaus intentions we can discover new degrees of freedom and possibilities. 

     

  8. Aug 05
    2011

    play bauhaus - start / video: Torsten Blume + Marcus Nebe / Performer: Yun-Ju Chen + Kengo Yamazaki   

     

  9. Jul 23
    2011

    play bauhaus - jam out play bauhaus - jam out: the solo of Yun-Ju Chen / July 9th  2011 at the Museum of Man (Hygiene-Museum) Dresden  / concept and direction: Torsten Blume (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, bauhaus stage) / sounds: Shintaro Imai (Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo)

    photos: Martin Reinhart

     

  10. play bauhaus - jam out play bauhaus - jam out: the bauhaus stage studio satellite at the Museum of Man (Hygiene-Museum) Dresden July 9th  2011 / 19.00 and  22.00 
    concept and direction: Torsten Blume (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, bauhaus stage)  and Yun-Ju Chen (Taiwan), dance: Yun-Ju Chen (Solo) and Pavla Vařáková, Kateřina Blažková, Monika Částková, Radim Klásek, Marie Janečková, Monika Šmídová, Cathrin Kloeters (Ballett Dessau), Juan Pablo Lastras Sanchez (Ballett Dessau) sounds: Shintaro Imai (Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo)
    sponsored by: Cloudgate Dance Foundation Taiwan

    photos: Sebastian-Gündel.de

     

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