Liquid Loft / Chris Haring (A)
Posing Project B / The Art of Seduction

Artistic Direction and Choreography: Chris Haring
Dance and Choreography: Luke Baio, Stephanie Cumming, Alexander
Gottfarb, Katharina Meves, Anna Maria Nowak
Composition, Acoustic Environment: Glim (Andreas Berger)
Scenery, Light: Thomas Jelinek
Stageset: Aldo Giannotti
Text: Katherina Zakravsky
Consultant: Roderich Madl
Organisation: Marlies Pucher, Line Rousseau

A co-production of liquid.loft, La Biennale di Venezia,
ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival and Tanzquartier
Wien. With friendly support of MA 7 Wien and Bundesministerium
für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur. Thanks to Spielboden Dornbirn
Duration: 60 minutes


Posing Project

Posing is a project about the cultural pattern of communication. The pose is a communication medium and expression of an attitude which transports complex meanings in a social context. The Posing Project consists of different projects which are all in context to each other and visualized in different stage settings. The basic idea deals with the art of innovative profiling and its direct influence on the recipient. The main focus is about impressive stereotypes which are advertising to seduce. In this kind of environment not the pose by itself but the method of posing is of critical importance.


Posing Project B
The Art of Seduction

The Art of Seduction, created for the Biennale di Venezia 2007 (Golden Lion for Best Performance) under the motto "Body and Eros" is a synthesis of dance and installation encircling the game of seduction between the performers and the audience. Here, the pose has to be understood as basic material, this trembling moment when the body pauses, seemingly rests in itself, while an image already separates from its surface to end up in the eye of the beholder. The game of seduction is a complex one: you have to make the other believe that you have what he/she needs without rousing his/her suspicion in your personal interest to give what another wants. Or maybe you just need to be the most desirable object playing hard to get. Seduction wants to lead to a connection by the means of mutual misleading. It will not work without the intervention of a third party – the arrow of Eros.