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Magical

Magical is a production by Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen (Austria/France/USA). The Vienna-based, French choreographer Anne Juren and the New York director Annie Dorsen deal with alchemy, choreography and politics in the dance production Magical about magic and feminism. As a development of Juren’s solo by the same name they have created a full-length performance, assisted by magicians such as the performance hipster Steve Cuiffo.

Information

(Objekt ID 11747)
Object type Production
Premiere April 15, 2011
Produced by Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung
Coproducers
Audience Adults
Language English
Keywords Performance, Theatre, Multidisciplinary
Running period April 15, 2011  
Website Black Box Teater

Requirements to venue

Blackout Yes
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Magical by Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen uses references to artists such as Carolee Schneemann, who is a professor in art and a visual artist dealing with body and gender in Neo-Dadaist union, to obscene multi-artists such as Karen Finley, known for posing marinated in honey, or the grandmother of performance art, Marina Abramović, Magical demonstrates the subversive potential of illusion making, with a clear intention.

Magical combines worlds which have little in common by first look, and it changes our spectator habits in its playing with the genre of striptease. Where the film feminists of the 1970es put authenticity first, Juren and Dorsen emphasise illusion and the artificial.

Obie awarded Annie Dorsen has won a number of accolades and has taught in several prestigious universities in USA. Anne Juren is educated as a choreographer and dancer in France, has worked in New York with Trisha Brown Company and started Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung. Her originally 15 minute long Magical was the result of a request from Tanzquartier Wien and Les Subs in Lyon for a piece about fashion, in which she decided to found her work in illusion and the female body.

"For that early version of the work, [Juren] went in search of the relationship between choreography and magic. She cooperated with the French magician Loic Laszlo with whom she developed magic tricks with her vagina", Lisa Schmidt, producer, says about the production.

"It seems to me that putting these historical feminist practices into the context of a magic show is a really amazing move", Annie Dorsen says.

Source: BIT Teatergarasjen spring program 2011. 08.04.2011: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/385

Contributors (16)
Name Role
Annie Dorsen – Concept/Idea
Anne Juren – Concept/Idea
Anne Juren – Choreography
Annie Dorsen – Staging
Anne Juren – Staging
Christophe Demarthe – Music
Roland Rauschmeier – Stage design
Miriam Draxl – Costume design
Bruno Pocheron – Light
Rut Waldeyer – Light
Steve Cuiffo – Performer (Magiker)
Anne Juren – Performer
Bastie – Assistant Stage Designer
Sebastian Bauer – Assistant Stage Designer
Ruth Ranacher – Costume assistant
Lisa Schmidt – Administration
Performance dates
October 26, 2012 19:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
October 25, 2012 19:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
April 16, 2011 19:00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet Show
April 15, 2011 19:00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet National premiere, Norway