B*BEPPU dance project
A choreography by Bert Gstettner
Premiere @ Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom | June 21 & 23, 2023 | T*H & AAR Festival >>>
Festival-Insert Sheet B*Beppu (only german) >>>
Site-specific performance @ Temple of Sound, Rappottenstein | Aug 12, 2023 | ToS Program >>>
Team
Choreography: Bert Gstettner
Dance: Vera Djemelinskaia, Nikola Majtanova, Viviane Tanzmeister
Music: Chieko Mori & Oliver Grimm
Spatial Intervention: Peter Sandbichler
Costume: Hanna Adlaoui Mayerl
Production: Tanz*Hotel / Art*Act Kunstverein
Cooperations: Temple Of Sound | Acousmonuments | TNH
Natur raunt: Unrat!
naturgeschichtlich naturverbunden naturvergessen naturbelassen naturalistisch naturbedingt naturverliebt naturgemäß naturtrüb | denaturiert renaturiert | Naturell Naturalien Naturlaute Naturliebe Naturfreund Naturvertrag Naturkunde Naturschutz Naturdenkmal Naturbetrachtung Naturbeherrschung Naturentfremdung Naturheilkunde Naturgeschichte Naturschutzgebiet Naturwissenschaft Naturalienkabinett | Frohnatur | Signatur. B.G.
All photos by: Laurent Ziegler, B.G. / T*H, Bildrecht. 2023.
In his most recent project, Bert Gstettner assumes the roles of choreographer, as well as dancer, and, together with three other dancers, explores the relationship between humans and nature. In doing so, the performers enter a dialog with the music. They interact with the room and the objects inside it. As its central element the performance communicates, connects, and contrasts in the trinity of time-space-human – through the performance of the dancers between sound and image – fills it with movement rhythm and the colors of the costumes.
The collaboration with the visual artist Peter Sandbichler, results in his intervention in the space of the stage being an independent piece of art. He installs his, described by Bert Gstettner as “orna-monumental”, architecture, made of recycled parts, and brings, with a powerful gesture, an entire landscape into the scene.
B*BEPPU references its title from a place in Japan. Beppu is well known for its natural phenomena. Inspired by these, the musical cooperation of the Japanese Koto player Chieko Mori and the Austrian computer musician Oliver Grimm was created. The hot springs of Beppu are associated with both magical energy and, with their steaming cracks in the earths surface, the gates of hell, which can symbolize the underworld, or the abysses of our subconscious.
Photos by: Martina Stapf, B.G. / T*H, Bildrecht. 2023.
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B*BEPPU | Eden - Video Dance:
This dance video is part of the B*BEPPU project 2023: Video - Stage - Sitespecific. The footage was filmed with kind permission at JO's garden.
Video by Bert Gstettner and Ulrich Kaufmann | Bildrecht GmbH, Vienna 2023 | Vera Djemelinskaia, Bert Gstettner, Nikola Majtanova, Viviane Tanzmeister
B*BEPPU | Eden - Videodance was filmed during the preparation for a new contemporary dance choreography, in the private garden of a famous Viennese architect. The relationship between the building and the garden appears in a well-kept order and disorder, showing the smooth and respectful transition between dynamic nature and built structure. The dancers relate to plants, water and to each other, indicating the loss of untouched nature.
The banishment from paradise seems to be an ongoing, repeating process, until mankind is not existing anymore. An irrational automortal mechanism coming from the wrong idea of constant robbery and exploitation of nature.
B*Beppu leads into the remaining desire to find the last love with nature. B.G.
