Anne Juren
Dance Fiction

Dance Fiction The Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse) was a favourite surrealist game from the mid-1920s onwards. It usually involved three or four participants who contributed to a drawing, collage or sentence, without seeing what the others had already done. Taking the game as a departure for a group practice, the Coaching Project focuses on the desire to create a choreographic approach, which involves the group and individual potential. We are all influenced by our own practices and life experiences, which lead us to different contexts and people. The question is how to potentialise our knowledge and create a set of actions, which involve the others and us. In the context of this Coaching Project, I invite the participants to reflect in practice on how we can share those processes and create new events, forms and shapes. I will propose a modular structure, which will be reinvented day by day. Applying the basic idea of the Cadavre Exquis game is appropriate in the sense of emphasising the individual qualities and dynamics of the group. The interest is to establish a platform of associations, which provokes curiosity and an adventurous way to invent choreography. The central desire is to interpret and question existing practices that we know and transform them into new ones. This should include movement qualities, body tissues, writing methods and vocal expressions as well as actions and sensational tasks for spatial, temporal and relational propositions. As an introduction for the day we will start with two hours of work around sensual issues. I will provide some experience with the Feldenkrais method as a starting point to present a specific idea of physical awareness. The aim is to trigger altered modalities of sensations. In a next step it is about combining those experiences and tend, from individual narratives, towards an abstract and collective choreography. The surrealistic approach of Cadavre Exquis, transferred into the domain of choreography, establishes an experimental world where fictional bodies meander and their inner world is extended to a new perception of the realm of reality. We will go through different fictional narrations and physical sensations to create a body of work consisting of several individuals in a bigger organism. Anne Juren, born 1978 in Grenoble (France), is a choreographer and dancer based in Vienna. After her diploma of dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Lyon and her studies of French literature at the Sorbonne, she finished the apprenticeship at the Trisha Brown Company in New York in 2000. She founded the association Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung in Vienna and created several choreographies like the solo "A?" (2003) , "J’aime (2004)" in collaboration with Alice Chauchat, the solo "Code Series" (2005), "Look Look" (2007) in collaboration with Krõõt Juurak, and the group composition "Komposition" (2008). In 2008 she was artist in residence at Tanzquartier Wien and took part in the two European artistic programs IDEE and APAP in which she developed a series of works called "Patterns of Sport and Dance". 2009, she worked as a choreographer for the Burgtheater and co-curated the festival Quick Change at the Tanzquartier in Vienna. In 2010, she presented with DD Dorvillier and Annie Dorsen "Pièce Sans Paroles" a staged Tennessee Williams’ piece. "Magical", her magic piece, a two-character-play was performed without words and premiered in collaboration with Annie Dorsen at the ImPulsTanz Festival in 2010. Her latest work, "Tableaux Vivants", a collaboration with Roland Rauschmeier and the Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud premiered in November 2011 at the Tanzquartier Vienna in cooperation with Tanzquartier Vienna and WIEN MODERN. At the moment, she works on "Lost and Found", a choreographic work reflecting upon the interplay of memory, projection and factual events, which is going to be shown by the end of 2012. Most recently she became a Feldenkrais® practitioner. www.wienertanzundkunstbewegung.at