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Constanza Macras - Big in Vienna
Constanza Macras - Big in Vienna
The Argentinian choreographer Constanza Macras is going to make her debut in Vienna from March 4-20 at Schauspielhaus.
With the following you‘ll find some details about the „Queen of Trash“ and her weird ensemble Dorky Park.
Mrs. Macras, trained at the Merce Cunningham Studios and at Movement Research in New York, has been working in the Berlin off-scene since 1995 and has become famous for her „site-specific“ performances, which have taken her to bars, clubs, lavatories, butcher‘s shops and kitchens.
Described as „boisterous, cultural mongrels“, these works are already history and were made for a generation of people, who know about the wisdom of waste from watching the Fraggles on TV.
The basis of the presence is the waste of the past; Constanza is digging in the garbage due to her device:
Memory Is Fragile - Garbage Lasts Forever.
Searching for the perfect fake is the most important thing; perfect artificiality creates authenticity.
The complexity of a topic and its refraction through a variety of perspectives is a big request in Constanza Macras‘ work.
Her performers dedicate themselves up to the threshhold of pain, which is the choreographer‘s premise for an „increased presence“.
Just have a look at the Dorks‘s website: watching pictures and finding fulminant links make this trip worth it, introducing the company‘s characteristics before they come to town.
One thing is definitely sure: Humour is found in every piece, „to make the sad things even tearier and funny things even funnier“.
Productions like „Scratch Neukölln“ and „Back To The Present“ brought her international fame.
„Big in Bombay“ is about Andy Warhol‘s thesis of a 15 minutes fame for everybody and the question, whether the influence of the global power of the United States changes the cultural autonomy of the „old“ countries in Europe. „Kill time or it‘s dead time - what does it mean to be famous?“
This is also the question for Constanza Macras‘s own life, the critics are hard on her heels, blaming her for being pretty close to Frank Castorf, Meg Stuart and Alain Platel in her aesthetics.
Can she hold her ground while transforming her „site-specific“ performances to the big theatres?
On the occassion of the premiere of „Big in Bombay“ on January 22nd at the Berliner Festspiele, the „bearer of hope“ and „new ambassador of dance“ was categorized, praised to the skies or downed. The notions were colourful like the work of Mrs. Macras, who - for sure- is the perfect forerunner of spring.
The Argentinian choreographer Constanza Macras is going to make her debut in Vienna from March 4-20 at Schauspielhaus.
With the following you‘ll find some details about the „Queen of Trash“ and her weird ensemble Dorky Park.
Mrs. Macras, trained at the Merce Cunningham Studios and at Movement Research in New York, has been working in the Berlin off-scene since 1995 and has become famous for her „site-specific“ performances, which have taken her to bars, clubs, lavatories, butcher‘s shops and kitchens.
Described as „boisterous, cultural mongrels“, these works are already history and were made for a generation of people, who know about the wisdom of waste from watching the Fraggles on TV.
The basis of the presence is the waste of the past; Constanza is digging in the garbage due to her device:
Memory Is Fragile - Garbage Lasts Forever.
Searching for the perfect fake is the most important thing; perfect artificiality creates authenticity.
The complexity of a topic and its refraction through a variety of perspectives is a big request in Constanza Macras‘ work.
Her performers dedicate themselves up to the threshhold of pain, which is the choreographer‘s premise for an „increased presence“.
Just have a look at the Dorks‘s website: watching pictures and finding fulminant links make this trip worth it, introducing the company‘s characteristics before they come to town.
One thing is definitely sure: Humour is found in every piece, „to make the sad things even tearier and funny things even funnier“.
Productions like „Scratch Neukölln“ and „Back To The Present“ brought her international fame.
„Big in Bombay“ is about Andy Warhol‘s thesis of a 15 minutes fame for everybody and the question, whether the influence of the global power of the United States changes the cultural autonomy of the „old“ countries in Europe. „Kill time or it‘s dead time - what does it mean to be famous?“
This is also the question for Constanza Macras‘s own life, the critics are hard on her heels, blaming her for being pretty close to Frank Castorf, Meg Stuart and Alain Platel in her aesthetics.
Can she hold her ground while transforming her „site-specific“ performances to the big theatres?
On the occassion of the premiere of „Big in Bombay“ on January 22nd at the Berliner Festspiele, the „bearer of hope“ and „new ambassador of dance“ was categorized, praised to the skies or downed. The notions were colourful like the work of Mrs. Macras, who - for sure- is the perfect forerunner of spring.