Anna Konjetzky & Co

Luna Park

Luna Park

World Premiere June 17, 2010, Dortmund

Luna Park

A dance and theatre co-production

Shifting from the trivial to the enigmatic. On the discovery of the banality in cities

“Luna Park” is the metaphor for the sheer quantity of images and impressions to which people are exposed in metropolises; a “crazy” world, an amusement park of the superficial, the loss of the needed leisureliness. The human drifts through and surrenders to the flood of images. The co-production partners BIS (Body Process Arts Association – Istanbul) and artscenico performing arts (Dortmund) in cooperation with Anna Konjetzky (Munich) create the theme “City life – stress and contemplation, tradition and modernity.”

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Partners & Support

A dance and theatre co-production by artscenico performing arts, the Theater im Depot, the Istanbul Festival “Amber” and Anna Konjetzky from Munich.

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6. – 7.11.2010
Istanbul Amber Festival
28. – 29.10.2010
München – “Dance” Festival
17. – 18.6.2010

Abdrücke

Abdrücke

World premiere 11 June 2010, Festival Danse Balsa Marni, Bruxelles

Abdrücke

First Part of the double Abdrücke/Abdrücke folgen

Abdrücke and Abdrücke folgen are two dance installations for one dancer. Two images that are like the same image’s positive and negative. In focus: a dancer looking for traces of her own being – which are constantly blurred. The body is the mooring rope to the self; a matter that can be measured, drawn, touched, described and displayed. And observed: the audience’s voyeuristic point of view in Abdrücke turns in Abdrücke folgen rather to dancer’s inside. In Abdrücke exists only the self. The “I” in hundredfold reflections, always reflected back on itself. Without hope of self-reassurance in the view of the other. Only the room exists – geometrical, hard, cold and bright, covered with mirrors and without any possibility to look outside. In this room the dancer tries to find, scrutinize and define herself. She turns, twists, as if every inch of her body should be cataloged. She documents her outlines on many slips of paper; these are portraits that she throws outside through narrow slits. Every piece of paper isan anchor of her existence. The spectators, however, are granted an unobstructed view, not only into the box because it is lit from the side of the spectators and thus transparent, but also because of a camera that projects images from the inside onto a wall. And while the breath of the dancer is fogging up the box and obfuscating the view, the camera’s larger-than-life image stays on.

Abdrücke is part of the double Abdrücke/Abdrücke folgen, as well as an independent work.

Abdrücke Folgen

Team

Choreography, Space, Lighting: Anna Konjetzky // Dance, Choreography: Sahra Huby // Video: Marc Stephan

Partners & Support

“Abdrücke” is funded by the Bayerischen Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz (BLZT) with funds from the Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, and the artist-in-residence at the Glasshouse Tel Aviv, Israel. With the friendly support of the carpentry Moritz Köster.

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11.6.2016
meetfactory Praha
14.5.2016
St. Petersburg new stage Alexandrinsky theater
16. – 17.12.2014
cricoteka Kraków
18.9.2014 – canceled for boycott reasons
Jerusalem
15.9.2014 – canceled for boycott reasons
Tel Aviv
18.8.2013
Ghent
1.6.2013
Porto
23.7.2012
Fürstenfeldbruck Kulturnacht
2. – 3.6.2012
München Muffatwerk Festival Rodeo
31.5.2012
München Muffatwerk Festival Rodeo
24.2.2012
Dresden Tanzplattform Deutschland
4.11.2011
Unidram Potsdam
1.10.2011
Bruxelles Nuit Blanche
3.7.2011
Klagenfurt Positionen 011
26. – 27.6.2011
München Muffatwerk
28.5.2011
Nürnberg, Blaue Nacht
16.4.2011
Salzburg Performancetage
5.12.2010
Eupen out of ostrale
14.11.2010
Tanztage Regensburg
15. – 16.10.2010
München – Festival digital analog
22. – 23.9.2010
la Chaux-de-Fonds Festival Antilope Suisse
17. – 18.9.2010
Dresden ostrale
27. – 28.8.2010
Schwerte – Blue Night Welttheater der Strasse
11. – 12.6.2010
Brüssel théâtre de la Balsamine festival Danse Balsa Marni
8. – 9.6.2010
Düsseldorf – tanzhaus nrw Festival Now&Next

dann still (then silent)

dann still (then silent)

World premiere 11 June 2010, Festival Danse Balsa Marni, Bruxelles

dann still (then silent)

a music theatre piece by Anna Konjetzky

The music theatre piece “dann still” was inspired by the novel “The Sister” by Malgorzata Saramonowicz. Three voices that are initially diffuse unfurl the history of the “sister”: of a pregnant woman in a coma, of a brother, of a husband – relationships shaped by violence, fear, ignorance and oblivion. The permeability of the body, of the skin – to render the body silent – the lost, forgotten body – the oscillation of the body, live and in video sequences. Separating transparent and reflecting stage constructions. Worlds of music like different layers of awareness – sound movements – sounds of sirens, archaic rhythms, electronic sound fragments, soft noises, silence.

Team

Choreography, Space, Light, Stage Design: Anna Konjetzky // Composition: Volker Staub, Daniel Smutny, Max Kaminski // Dance: Sahra Huby // Video: Marc Stephan

Partners & Support

„operare“ is a project of Zeitgenössischen Oper Berlin in cooperation with KNM Berlin,
the Radialsystem V and the Akademie der Künste with ohrenstrand.net. ohrenstrand.net is funded by the Netzwerk Neue Musik, a project of Kulturstiftung des Bundes, and the Kulturverwaltung of Berlin.

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23. – 24.5.2010
Kesselhaus Berlin

Die Summe der Öffnungen (“The sum of openings”)

Die Summe der Öffnungen (“The sum of openings”)

World premiere January 10, 2010, Muffathalle Munich

Die Summe der Öffnungen (“The sum of openings”)

a dance piece by Anna Konjetzky

In Anna Konjetzky’s “Die Summe der Öffnungen,” five dancers move about the top of an almost four meter high stage construction that drops down on two sides. A “mountain” with stairs and steps, corners and edges, with niches, platforms and holes. A space architecture that forms, forces and challenges the movements of the dancers; and thus it becomes part of the choreography. A choreography that resembles the dance of Sisyphus: you cannot escape from the “mountain,” as stairs are leading into the nowhere or back to the top; bodies are swallowed up, fragmented and yet manage to return to the surface and start over.

“I drew inspiration for this work through my fascination that people again and again manage to create living space anywhere. How a living space is created under the strangest, most absurd and horrific conditions, and in such places. How the body conquers centimeter after centimeter, fights for the right for space. This dance piece may not be completely unlike life on a garbage heap.”
(A. Konjetzky)

Team

Choreography, Scene: Anna Konjetzky // Dance: Daniel Bear Davis, Marie-Laure Fiaux, Paul Hess, Sahra Huby, Katrin Schafitel // Music: Laura Konjetzky // Stage design: Anton Lukas // Video: Marc Stephan // Light: Barbara Westernach

Partners & Support

Funded by the Department of Culture of the City of Munich and Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.

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30. – 31.1.2011
Muffathalle München
19. – 20.1.2010
Muffathalle München