19 / 05 / 2019
INSTALLATION
RESEARCH
PERFORMANCE
PREMIERE: Impossible Dances @ Chicago, 24.-26.05.2019 & Zagreb, 01.06.2019
These [compositions] are intentionally as difficult as I can make them, because I think we're now surrounded by very serious problems in the society, and we tend to think that the situation is hopeless and that it's just impossible to do something that will make everything turn out properly. So I think that this music, which is almost impossible, gives an instance of the practicality of the impossible.
John Cage
Impossible Dances is a performative artwork that was initially created for the exhibition documenting the work of the US postdramatic theatre collective Goat Island and was premiered in May of 2019 at the Chicago Center for Culture. The work draws on the documentation and scores of the "Impossible Dances" sequence from Goat Island's The Sea & Poison and John Cage's notes to his Freeman Etudes.
In Impossible Dances we have explored the new ways of practising the impossible. The impossible emerges from the performative process of translation from choreography to choreography, from recording to movement, from poetry to performance. The impossible is necessary because, as we're hurtling toward hothouse Earth, nothing is more urgent that the encounter of a myriad of impossibilities.
Direction: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Dramaturgy: Tomislav Medak
Choreography and performance: Nikolina Pristaš, Ana Kreitmeyer, Zrinka Užbinec, Marta Krešić
Video: Goat Island,
Production: Lovro Japundžić
CHICAGO
World Premiere: Friday–Saturday, 24.-25. May 2019 at 19:00, and Sunday, 26. May 2019 at 14:00
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Note: The 24. May performance is preceded by an artist talk at 19:00 with Erin Manning with the performance at 20:00.
ZAGREB
Premiere: 01. June 2019 at 19:00
Hala V (Technical Museum Zagreb) – Part of the Platfroma.hr 20 Festival
The project was supported by Zagreb City Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, and the City of Chicago - Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events (DCASE).
The work of BADco. is supported by the Foundation Kultura nova.
19 / 05 / 2019
INSTALLATION
RESEARCH
PERFORMANCE
PREMIJERA: Nemogući plesovi @ Chicago, 24.-26.05.2019. & Zagreb, 01.06.2019.
These [compositions] are intentionally as difficult as I can make them, because I think we're now surrounded by very serious problems in the society, and we tend to think that the situation is hopeless and that it's just impossible to do something that will make everything turn out properly. So I think that this music, which is almost impossible, gives an instance of the practicality of the impossible.
John Cage
Impossible Dances is a performative artwork that was initially created for the exhibition documenting the work of the US postdramatic theatre collective Goat Island and was premiered in May of 2019 at the Chicago Center for Culture. The work draws on the documentation and scores of the "Impossible Dances" sequence from Goat Island's The Sea & Poison and John Cage's notes to his Freeman Etudes.
In Impossible Dances we have explored the new ways of practising the impossible. The impossible emerges from the performative process of translation from choreography to choreography, from recording to movement, from poetry to performance. The impossible is necessary because, as we're hurtling toward hothouse Earth, nothing is more urgent that the encounter of a myriad of impossibilities.
Direction: Goran Sergej Pristaš
Dramaturgy: Tomislav Medak
Choreography and performance: Nikolina Pristaš, Ana Kreitmeyer, Zrinka Užbinec, Marta Krešić
Video: Goat Island,
Production: Lovro Japundžić
CHICAGO
World Premiere: Friday–Saturday, 24.-25. May 2019 at 19:00, and Sunday, 26. May 2019 at 14:00
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Note: The 24. May performance is preceded by an artist talk at 19:00 with Erin Manning with the performance at 20:00.
ZAGREB
Premiere: 01. June 2019 at 19:00
Hala V (Technical Museum Zagreb) – Part of the Platfroma.hr 20 Festival
The project was supported by Zagreb City Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, and the City of Chicago - Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events (DCASE).
The work of BADco. is supported by the Foundation Kultura nova.