nadaproductions: THEM the new performance is almost there

Dienstag, 25. August 2009

THEM the new performance is almost there

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press text about "WE" :

Artist couples at the Festival imagetanz at brut, Vienna: "WE" by Amanda Piña & Daniel Zimmermann.

Vienna - Within constellations of authorship in contemporary choreography the forming of couples is
nothing unusual. And from time to time they work out fine, as with deufert + plischke or Emio Greco and
Pieter C. Scholten. imagetanz, the festival at the Viennese brut is now showing an extraordinary work of an
artist couple: WE, by Amanda Piña & Daniel Zimmermann.

Piña/Zimmermann are projecting the group-image of their audence who are sitting on a stand, live onto a
screen. Into this virtual mirror, the artists set comic-like thought-bubbles, such as: "Wow, I'm really good
looking today" and "Did I turn off my phone?". In the face of what is presented here, one person regrets:
"Oh, no, if I only had known..." It is all thoughts people could have while sitting in a theatre. Using wit, know-
ledge of human nature and a masterly dramaturgy, WE turns into a feast of the recognition, the identificati-
on with our own mirror image and the amusement of role allocation.

The couple is obviously good at defying logic and at rendering visible hidden claims; the cooperation
between choreographer and visual artist turns out to be a recipe for success.
(Helmut Ploebst / DER STANDARD, Print-Edition, 17.3.2008)

More about us

Amanda Piña - Chilean | Mexican
Studied Physical Theatre in Santiago de Chile, Theatre Anthropology and Contemporary Dance in Barcelona, Salzburg and Montpellier; (Area, La Caldera, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance SEAD, Ex.e.r.ce, Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier). She works in Europe and Latin America(Chile and Mexico) where she also teach and give workshops for young dancers and children. In 2005 she received a Fondart grant for culture from the Chilean Government for the support of young artists and in 2006 the Dance Web scholarship. In 2007 she received the 'á la source' Scholarship for Young Choreographers from Römerquelle and TQW. She works as freelance dancer and Choreographer in Austria, Switzerland, Holland Mexico and Chile, she creates her own pieces that have been presented in festivals in Europe and South América, ( ImpulsTanz Festival '08, Image Tanz Festival ‘07, ‘08, Tanz Quartier Studios and Halle G, festival danzalborde Valparaiso, among others)

Daniel Zimmermann
Mixed-media artist. His artistic work has been shown in museums, exhibition spaces, and other public places in Switzerland and abroad. He also makes art films which have been presented in several festivals arround the world such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFCT New York City, the Olympic Games in Athens, Swiss Television and Swiss Film Festival in Solothurn. He has done several projects in public spaces involving different communities like the 10 Swiss in which he involved different traditional swiss activities and transformed them into health exercises. www.die10schweizer.ch. He collaborated with Cabula6 on the project 'On Earth' in the context of the TQW Factory Season Community Work in Santiago de Chile and Vienna, and collaborated with architects, choreographers and contemporary dancers in several projects presented his work at the International Contemporary Dance Festival Vienna in 2005. His work had received several distinctions and awards: „Mondsee Land Art“, Austria, International Olympic Comite, Best Swiss Short Film price nomination for the Lauberhornrennen im Sommer 2007 www.dz-productions.com

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Dienstag, 25. August 2009

THEM the new performance is almost there

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tour dates THEM

WE in Amsterdam 9, 10 & 11.09.09

them in frascati