AS IF Stranger
AS IF Stranger is a solo choreography by the American choreographer Richard Siegal. In 2008 the production was rewarded the New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie).
Information
(Objekt ID 3694)| Object type | Production |
| Produced by | The Bakery |
| Coproducers | Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Danspace Project, Muffatwerk, |
| Keywords | Dance, Contemporary dance |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | Yes |
AS IF Stranger by Richard Siegal is a dance solo in which images, movements, presence and a flow of words are weaved together in some kind of narrative, floating between fiction and reality.
Siegal’s dance is floating as without joints, framed by a scenic landscape filled with cables and other media equipment and with Philip Bussman’s video images as a mysterious backdrop. In this impersonal room the body is an elastic force in constant change through dance, invisibility, speech and silence.
With background among other things as a dancer in The Frankfurt Ballet (1997-2004) Siegal has brought a virtuoso physical expression and sought new territories through collaboration with artists across disciplines. In 2002 he established The Bakery, an organisation dedicated to research and production of contemporary dance.
Siegal connects programmers and architects, sound and video artists and link technology, language, philosophy and choreography in his works.
Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2009. 05.08.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -arkiv
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Richard Siegal | – Choreography |
| Christine Peters | – Dramaturge |
| Richard Siegal | – Stage design |
| Philip Bussmann | – Video/Film |
| Amaury Groc | – Sound design |
| Michael Lentner | – Lighting design |
| Antoine Seigneur-Guerrini | – Lighting design |
| Richard Siegal | – Dancer |
| Dieta Sixt | – Production manager |
| February 26, 2009 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche | Show |
| February 25, 2009 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche | Show |
Deborah Jowitt, dato ukjent, The Village Voice:
"A super-smart choreographer (...) (an) amazing creation. His dancing is both intensely elusive and vividly present (...) he makes everything he does seem like personal utterance. He shows you the rhythms of thought - the pauses, the pounces, the smooth elisions. Every part of his body is subtly, silkily at variance with every other part, and his joints seem to bend in ways not accessible to the rest of us."
Wendy Perron, dato ukjent, Dancemagazine:
"Richard Siegal danced mostly in dimness in his AS IF Stranger, but by the end I felt like sunlight was streaming into the room."