Time Code 9733
dance + film installation
2015
An agreement, a rule, a code, an ancient oath –
or perhaps a modern ritual.
Time Code 9733 occurs in an imaginary place that, depending on the viewer's perspective, may be in the present, the future or the past. Archaic pictures, old myths, scraps of sound, Facebook entries, loose phrases and philosophical rudiments meet each other by chance. Everything is fleeting, insignificant, and without context or continuity.
The stage becomes a microcosm through the use of diverse cameras – all differently positioned and zoomed. Some actions are shown in detail, others are displayed oversized so that even the most delicate, incidental contact appears unrealistically large on monitor screens that both witness and document the events on stage.
Five performers execute an elaborate arrangement of movement in two contrasting rooms. One space resembles a modern adyton, the dark and mystical sanctuary of a temple; projections of media images, film fragments and live recordings light the space. The other room is like a bright and airy palace that allows fort he unfolding of the performers' inner worlds in concrete, immediate gesture.
The performers and the public alike move between these two spaces as in an exhibition, passing through a cosmos that speaks of power relations, dependencies and violence in a world of mediated and immediate experience.
Credits
Concept, Directing, Stage Design,
Film, Sound, Photos
Andrea K. Schlehwein
Collaboration:
Film, Text, Sound, Photos
Roman Zotter
Collaboration:
Stage Design, Sound, Costume
Brigitte Büsken
Collaboration: Choreography
Maria Mavridou
Dance
Leonie Humitsch
Dong Eun Kim
Aaron Maier-Planer
Maria Mavridou
Roman Zotter
"The Sculptor's Ark"
Titus Lemer
Performance Photos
Laurent Ziegler
Graphic Layout
Eleonore Schäfer
AKS
Roman Zotter
Collaboration: Text, Blog
Nayana Bhat
Teaser
Roman Zotter
Training
Maria Mavridou
Rehearsal Guest
Nayana Bhat
Valentin Alfery
Website / Blog / Translations
Hayley Glickfeld Bielman
Production
büro für tanz | theater | produktionen
With support from
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
Österreichische Bundesforste
Marktgemeinde Millstatt
Press
"AKS received well-deserved applause upon the conclusion of her latest and boldest choreographic experiment to date. Time Code 9733, presented at ART SPACE in Stift Millstatt, integrates audience and fantastic dance technique, and examines a universe built upon reality and vision. The work pulled viewers into the performance by allowing them to move freely within a precisely calculated, changeable spacial installation with live-designed film projections – and quite successfully! Excitement and curiosity drew viewers from a dark chamber, disjointed by grand cinematic images depicting both ideal and broken worlds of memory and fantasy, into a room of light.
"There, a group of diverse dancers, which even included an 8-year-old boy (!), built upon that which had been rescued from the darkness in a far-east-inspired 'ritual' with symbolic use of feathers, a chalice and a crown. A worthwhile experience!"
Andrea Hein
translated by Hayley Glickfeld Bielman
Die Krone
30. May 2015
Performances
28., 30. & 31. May 2015
14. & 16. November, 2015
Stift Millstatt