Seismic Dancer
In Seismic Dancer, Doris Uhlich combines her artistic interests and research of her last years. It is like a portrait of the artist where the audience can dive into her flesh and energy philosophy. In collaboration with the DJ Boris Kopeinig and the machinist Gerald Pappenberger, Uhlich explores limits of energy output, what strength one must spend to open oneself up, change something, and restructure something to get something cracking. No standby, push the play button!
In Seismic Dancer, the aim is to develop energy to create ways of seeing the dense, complicated present as a moving body, to experience the body as the epicentre for action and change. The intention of flooding space with energy leads her to investigate techno culture – techno as an act of dance that spreads out energetically and understands sound and movement as a flow or current.
For me, dance is the archaeology and transmission of energy, transforming energetic states in bodies and space. I feel the present is inscribed with fear and closing systems. Pragmatism and efficiency have infiltrated our very flesh and blood. I am looking for the energy of opening, the motivation not to implode, collapse. - Doris Uhlich.
Electronic dance music is a futuristic take on ancient rituals that affect the consistency of body and perception. - Boris Kopeinig
In Seismic Dancer, the aim is to develop energy to create ways of seeing the dense, complicated present as a moving body, to experience the body as the epicentre for action and change. The intention of flooding space with energy leads her to investigate techno culture – techno as an act of dance that spreads out energetically and understands sound and movement as a flow or current.
For me, dance is the archaeology and transmission of energy, transforming energetic states in bodies and space. I feel the present is inscribed with fear and closing systems. Pragmatism and efficiency have infiltrated our very flesh and blood. I am looking for the energy of opening, the motivation not to implode, collapse. - Doris Uhlich.
Electronic dance music is a futuristic take on ancient rituals that affect the consistency of body and perception. - Boris Kopeinig
CREDITS
Choreography, Performance
Doris Uhlich
DJ
Boris Kopeinig
Light
Gerald Pappenberger
Production
insert (Theaterverein)
Distribution
Something Great
insert (Theaterverein) is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
GENERAL NOTE
This piece can be performed in three different versions :
Short-length version
Full-length version
Site-specific version