Andrew Hustwaite + Antipode Danse Tanz
January 11 to 14, 2018. Marly Innovation Center, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland
META is an interdisciplinary project linking dance to kinetic sculpture. This is a collaboration between Antipode Danse Tanz and Australian artist Andrew Hustwaite. At the origin of this project is the work and personality of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. META does not want to be tempted by functionality and aspires to create a poetic universe, borrowed from humor, taste of risk and human know-how where the performers as the works wobble on the verge of self-destruction while capturing a feeling of lightness and play. Andrew Hustwaite’s kinetic sculptures are transposed into space in several tetrahedral variations. They represent certain principles such as rotation, balance and resonance. The bodies of the dancers evolve in this unique universe by exploring both an organic tenderness and metallic hardness. META plays with a fun way the fascination for the controllable and the uncontrollable.
The machine allows me to be poetic. If we respect her, if we play with her, perhaps we can create a joyous machine – joyous in the sense of free.
Jean Tinguely
M E T A from Antipode Danse Tanz on Vimeo.
Co: EQUILIBRE-
Choreography: NICOLE MOREL
Kinetic Sculptures: ANDREW HUSTWAITE
Assistantship choreography: SAMUEL DENIZ FALCON
Dance: PAULA ALONZO GOMEZ VITTORIO BERTOLLI, SAMUEL DENIZ FALCON
Music: FABIAN RUSS
Sound Engineer: CARLO GRIPPA
Dramaturgy: ULRIKE WÖRNER
Costumes: SASKIA SCHNEIDER
Enlightenment and Technical: MARIO TORCHIO
Curator and Assistant of Production: ADRIEN LAUBSCHER-THEVOZ
Administration: JUAN DIAZ
State of Friborg, Loterie Romande, Freiburg, Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation