Nathalie Koger (D/A) with Annabel Carberry (AUS/UK)

„Artisten, Tiere, Distraktionen“ oder „Luft und Hiebe“ auf jeden Fall „Manege, high!“

„At some time in the future I want to make a show about fear. I am very interested in the idea that circus (though this doesn't relate so much to hula hoops), makes us feel more alive as it reminds us of our mortality whilst at the same time defying it. Moreover, the idea of performing something highly skilfully reminds us of the possibilities of what each and everyone is capable of in her or his individual capacity. What I mean are the skills required to perform something that is very difficult and takes time and patience to learn, makes you think of the amazing potential for extraordinary things. It can inspire people to explore new avenues for themselves. I am interested to work with Nathalie as a way to experience another approach to performing and circus.“ A.C.

„I invited Annabel Carberry to apply for a residency with me. We met coincidently in a production process of “Erendira: The Revolution” as part of the Fuceccio Festival, Italy, in 2008. I am attracted by the patience of the circus people, their practice, their physicality and their relations to themselves as well as to the audience - all manifested in the production process. In addition I am also thinking more and more about the idea and state of (artistic) integrity evoked by my circus experience. Our artistic collaboration started with a project -still ongoing- using 16mm film as a medium and which deals with performative aspects of the various media. For the residency we will further shift our working relation. Teaching, physicality, circus codes and limits in various (de)manifestations will be crucial, as element and subject, for our project and the time we will spent together at ImPulsTanz.“ N.K.

Biographies

Annabel Carberry (AUS/ UK) began her circus career at the age of 12, performing all over the world with the famous Australian youth circus, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Since then Annabel has performed with many circus companies, and as a solo and duo performer in festivals, corporate events, cabarets and burlesque shows.

Nathalie Koger (D/A) is a visual artist and student of Diedrich Diederichsen and Dorit Margreiter, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and master student of Daniele Buetti. She is working with textures and ideas of dramaturgy, choreography and performance in images, texts and temporal situations. She creates and directs her own work in changing collaborations. Her work was received a.o. as appropriation art. In 2010 she received the Birgit Jürgenssen award. 2008-10 she worked as project manager of Musen.Meister.Monster, curated by Mathilde Monnier and Katrin Roschangar at Tanzquartier Wien. In the following time she was dramatic advisor for Alexander Gottfarb’s pieces “Political Movements, Part 1: Marching” and “Political Movements, Part 2”. Recently she edited “Vielleicht küsst uns ja die Muse. Index zum Roman” with Barbara Kapusta, Simona Obholzer and Marlies Pöschl (Vienna: schlebrügge.editor).


Photo © Nathalie Koger, sreenshot from a clip by Mathias Windelberg