Yes WE is invited to a festival for young european choreographers called "Danceunion" at the Southbank Centre London Royal Festival Hall Christian is coming too! come to see us if you are around!
QUERIDOS amigos, extraños and whoever will take a look at this pages: The baby is growing.....and it's growing... slowly!...and we are invited to show "WE" in the impulstanz festival this year. A challenge to adapt the piece for 200 people, we are curious allready of what it will come out, a monster? a mass orgy?.... Dates are July 31st august 2nd, but first comes the european choreographic platform Frankfurt at Mousonturm the 23rd and 24th of May. where "WE" shows a 20 mins. version, maybe without Christian which is a a real pity. some written text from the piece: "What they will think? about us? no, about WE, aha! ...we cannot know what they will think". maybe because we don't know we are so curious, about people? what people think? about situations? moments? how it would be like? and may be that's WHY we create this strange objects. OK, todays song is for you and it goes like this: "here comes the sun king and all existenciall fears are gone away for a while, (again!) here comes the sun king, EVERYBODY is laughing, everyone is happy". amor y risa para todos. Amanda
We are working on "We" our new production. Outside is winter and cold and we almost don't leave home. the new piece "We" is partially home made. We will work outside in Saskia Hölbling's studio in two weeks where we will try out what we have done till then. what are the thoughts of the audience is the main theme of this new creation and has many possibilities. "We" will premier in March 13th in Konzerthaus in brut.
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)
nadaproductions:
Amanda Piña & Daniel Zimmermann work together since 2005.
Their work focuses on the aspects of reception and perception involving the audience in new participative ways into different concepts of performance.
nada.productions@gmail.com
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