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eigenSinn - Antje Pfundtner
eigenSinn
Antje Pfundtner
Kampnagel Production
ONCE UPON a time there was a child who was wilful, and would not do what her mother wished. For this reason God had no pleasure in her, and let her become ill, and no doctor could do her any good, and in a short time she lay on her death-bed. According to the fairy tale The Wilful Child wilfulness is a quality worthy of serious punishment. On the other hand wilfulness cant be suppressed everyone has a wilful streak. But do we all acknowledge it in ourselves?
In her solo eigenSinn, Antje Pfundtner recounts various stories that play on inner and outer voices of perception. The departure point for this radical, ironically and refreshing self questioning work, is a human desire to be noticed and understood that extends into vanity. Simultaneously, Antje Pfundtner investigates the possibilities of the art of storytelling through a mixture of dance and spoken word which prompts an immediate sense of understanding. In the course of this, what seems to audience and listener to be the most apparent sense of a story becomes open to question.
Antje Pfundtners dance has a surprisingly theatrical expressive force about it that speaks directly to the audience. Her choreography never looses itself in self-satisfied games with movement but instead moves playfully between the abstract and the existing. The different motives behind her self-questioning look at how people perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others, crystallise in simple, clear images that are varied and intensified in the dance sequences: with touching frankness, humour and total lack of vanity, the young dancer and choreographer shows a broad spectrum of gestures and emotions expressing the deep human desire to be seen as we see ourselves or as we would like to be seen by others beautiful, ugly, mean and vulnerable…The stage becomes a place where, for moments, the desire to be self-sovereign is fulfilled again and again.
Kathrin Tiedemann / Kampnagel Hamburg
Antje Pfundtner studied modern dance at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. Following a scholarship period of study in New York, she has worked on various independent projects including most recently with David Hernandez, Tony Vezich and the Magpai Production Group in Hamburg.
Her first two works überMutter und Das hängt davon ab were both shown at Kampnagel.
She was awarded a place on the danceWEB Scholarship Programme in Vienna in 2002 and 2003.
EigenSinn is her first evening length solo and was premiered at Kampnagel/Hamburg.
Antje Pfundtner
Kampnagel Production
ONCE UPON a time there was a child who was wilful, and would not do what her mother wished. For this reason God had no pleasure in her, and let her become ill, and no doctor could do her any good, and in a short time she lay on her death-bed. According to the fairy tale The Wilful Child wilfulness is a quality worthy of serious punishment. On the other hand wilfulness cant be suppressed everyone has a wilful streak. But do we all acknowledge it in ourselves?
In her solo eigenSinn, Antje Pfundtner recounts various stories that play on inner and outer voices of perception. The departure point for this radical, ironically and refreshing self questioning work, is a human desire to be noticed and understood that extends into vanity. Simultaneously, Antje Pfundtner investigates the possibilities of the art of storytelling through a mixture of dance and spoken word which prompts an immediate sense of understanding. In the course of this, what seems to audience and listener to be the most apparent sense of a story becomes open to question.
Antje Pfundtners dance has a surprisingly theatrical expressive force about it that speaks directly to the audience. Her choreography never looses itself in self-satisfied games with movement but instead moves playfully between the abstract and the existing. The different motives behind her self-questioning look at how people perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others, crystallise in simple, clear images that are varied and intensified in the dance sequences: with touching frankness, humour and total lack of vanity, the young dancer and choreographer shows a broad spectrum of gestures and emotions expressing the deep human desire to be seen as we see ourselves or as we would like to be seen by others beautiful, ugly, mean and vulnerable…The stage becomes a place where, for moments, the desire to be self-sovereign is fulfilled again and again.
Kathrin Tiedemann / Kampnagel Hamburg
Antje Pfundtner studied modern dance at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. Following a scholarship period of study in New York, she has worked on various independent projects including most recently with David Hernandez, Tony Vezich and the Magpai Production Group in Hamburg.
Her first two works überMutter und Das hängt davon ab were both shown at Kampnagel.
She was awarded a place on the danceWEB Scholarship Programme in Vienna in 2002 and 2003.
EigenSinn is her first evening length solo and was premiered at Kampnagel/Hamburg.