As If Stranger
As If Stranger is a solo performance in which images, movement, presence, and streams of words weave a seeming narrative, oscillating between fact and fiction, transparency and poetry. The highly articulate dancing is framed by a utilitarian environment, stacked with media equipment and cables. In this impersonal space, the body is a malleable force, jumping easily through invisibility, dancing, speech, stillness, igniting the imagination and provoking the viewer to consider the equivalence of certain physical, social, and psychological models.
Richard Siegal
Richard Siegal creates works in which computing, language, philosophy, technology and choreography interconnect. A former dancer with William Forsythe, Siegal's choreography and physical virtuosity are pushing into new territories through collaborations with software engineers, architects, sound and video artists. His latest investigations into his "If-Then" compositional structure have resulted in two performance works, an interactive open source website, an installation, and the beginnings of a new stage work developed in tandem with highly robust gesture-recognition software created by Frederic Bevilacqua at IRCAM.
Wolfgang Zamistil
Wolfgang Zamistil had his first cello lesson at age 5 in Salzburg, Austria, and hasn’t stopped playing since. He studied Violoncello with W. Tachezi and C. Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and later with M. Sanderling, then with J.P. Mainz in Berlin. He has taken master classes with Heinrich Schiff, the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Boulez, among others. His performance and composition works include contemporary classical music, Tango Nuevo, electronic and pop music, as well as projects with actors, dramaturges and choreographers in Austria, Berlin and New York. His solo work spans his 2005 debut in Salzburg with Schostakovitch’s 1st Cello Concert (JPS) to acclaim as a writer for children’s music books. He has had 4 CD-productions of his own compositions. 2008 marks the initiation of his own band "Lab of The Halo".
About The Bakery:
The Bakery Paris-Berlin in coproduction with: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Danspace Project, New York City, Muffathalle München, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, and the National Performance Network of Germany with support from The Forsythe Company, Fabrik Potsdam, Services Culturels de France New York. This event was made possible by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK with funds provided by the federal government’s office for culture and media, and by the ministries of culture and art of the federal states.
Dates + Tickets
Concept and choreography: Richard Siegal Performer: Richard Siegal, Wolfgang Zamistil Dramaturgue: Christine Peters Set Design: Virginie Mira, Richard Siegal Video: Norbert Pape, Philip Bußmann Sound Design: Amaury Groc Light Design: Gilles Gentner, Antoine Seigneur-Guerrini Light: Michael Lentner-Niyorugira Technical Director: Sebastian Rietz Production Manager: Dieta Sixt
The Bakery Paris-Berlin in co-production with: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Danspace Project, New York City, Muffathalle München, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, and the National Performance Network of Germany with support from The Forsythe Company, Fabrik Potsdam, Services Culturels de France New York.
This event was made possible by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK with funds provided by the federal government’s office for culture and media, and by the ministries of culture and art of the federal states.