Shortcuts to familiar places
A show by James Batchelor
Australia | duration: 55’
National Première
With support of:
– Consolato Generale della Repubblica Federale di Germania
– NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
After-show conversation with the company
A passionate choreographic duo that unites three generations of modern dance in a poetic dialogue. Batchelor reimagines the expressionist technique of his teacher Ruth Osborne, which she inherited from Austrian choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser, a 100-year-old artist who survived Nazi concentration camps and pioneer of a dance that was at the time considered to be degenerate and out of the norm. A memory made of gestures and movements that is kept alive in the bodies of three generations. A testimony to an extraordinary legacy and a moving tribute to his mentors, somewhere between a personal tribute and a historical investigation.
Dates for this event:
Tickets
Full price: 13€
Under30, Over65 e Card Cultura, Alliance Française members: 8€
Reduced price: Unibo e Ababo: 5€
Tickets can be bought:
1) Online: on TicketSMS.it starting from october 2024.
2) At Gender Bender’s Festival Center: from 31 October to 11 November from 3.00pm to 9.00pm only and exclusively at the Gender Bender’s Festival Centre, set up at DAS – Dispositivo arti sperimentali in via del Porto 11/b.
*There will NOT be a ticket office at the event locations.
For more info: biglietteria@genderbender.it
Accessibility
James Batchelor, born in 1992, is a choreographer originally from Canberra, Australia. In 2016, following a two-month scientific sea expedition to the subantarctic islands, he created the shows Deepspace and Hyperspace, both of which toured throughout Europe and Australia. Some of his recent works, including An Evening-length Performance (2021) and Shortcuts to Familiar Places (2022), have been presented at major festivals including Tanz im August, December Dance in Brugge and Impulstanz Vienna.
Credits
Choreographer and performer: James Batchelor
Drammaturg: Bek Berger
Music composition: Morgan Hickinbotham
Dance: Chloe Chignell
Light Designer: Vinny Jones
Costumes: Juliane König
Video editing: Margie Medlin
Videographer: James Batchelor
Choreographic consultants: Ruth Osborne, Eileen Kramer, Carol Brown
Researcher: Michelle Potter
A production by: James Batchelor e Collaboratori in coproduzione con SOFIENSALE.
Funded by: Capitale Fondo Culturale e l’Australia Council for the Arti, Fondazione Tanja Liedtke, Michael Adena e Joanne Daly.
With support of: Tanzhaus nrw, QL2 Danza, Centro artistico Belconnen, Cocoon Dance, Trauma Bar e Cinema, e Theaterhaus Mitte.
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