You think you see what you are listening to. - Gertrude Ferrant
On ne présente plus l’artiste français-allemande Antonia Baehr. Nous l’avions invitée, en 2013, à présenter son œuvre extrêmement dense, faite de représentations philosophiques pleines d’humour qui font vaciller les notions de genre et d’identité.
Cette fois-ci, elle s’associe à une collaboratoratrice de longue date avec l’artiste chorégraphique Valérie Castan. Misses and Mysteries est, à la fois un spectacle chorégraphique, du cabaret « nouvelle vague » et une fiction radiophonique. Une audiodescription pour le public déficient visuel permet d’acceder à une fiction imaginaire. Le texte décrit des chorégraphies fictives sur lesquelles se juxtaposent, sur scène, les performances de William Wheeler. Les images et les descriptions se mêlent en une parade danse de séduction fascinante...
EN spoken
60’
Concept, text, choreography: Antonia Baehr, Valérie Castan
Reader: Kate McIntosh (English version)
Performance, costume and choreography: William Wheeler
Music (inside piano, mixing board): Andrea Neumann
Scenography, lighting design: Antonia Baehr
Technical direction, lighting design: Rima Ben Brahim
Sound: Ian Douglas-Moore
English translation: Corinne Hundleby
Internship: Lois Bartel, Guy Marsan
Administration: Alexandra Wellensiek
Thank you to: Chantal Akerman, Antoine Doinel, Sabine Macher, Delphine Seyrig, Christophe Wavelet
Co-production: Kampnagel (Hamburg), Buda Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Theater Freiburg (Freiburg), Festival Uzès Danse (Uzes), NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag
Supported by: Berliner Senatskanzlei für kulturelle Angelegenheiten, ausland / Berlin in the frame of the residence program, Artists in Residence program at fabrik Potsdam.
Antonia Baehr is a choreographer and a filmmaker. Her works explore the fiction of the everyday and of the theatre, among other themes. She works together with various partners, frequently in the form of role-play: from project to project, each participant alternately takes on the role of either guest or host. Baehr is the producer of the horse whisperer and dancer Werner Hirsch, the musician and choreographer Henri Fleur, the composer Henry Wilt and the husband Henry Wilde, a.o.. 2016 sees the development of a dance trio. Dancer & expert in audio description for dance Valérie Castan first cooperated with Antonia Baehr in 2005. She performed in Un après midi #10 and worked with Baehr to create the piece Danke. In 2007 the two worked together on Castan’s first film, Drama. Valérie Castan wrote a score for both of Baehr’s solo pieces Lachen and Abecedarium Bestiarium, and assisted in the scripting.
