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Articles by Anna Kaszuba
Dansathon: an international dance hackathon
Dansathon was a dance and digital technology hackathon that took place simultaneously in Liège, London and Lyon (I list them in merely alphabetical order) over the weekend of 28–30 September 2018, jointly organised by Théâtre de Liège, Sadler’s Wells and Maison de la danse.
Rosas: The Six Brandenburg Concertos
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s works have often been labelled both challenging and compelling, both brainy and dramatic. Yet the surprisingly straightforward Six Brandenburg Concertos (her fifth piece to music by J.S. Bach, aptly premiered in Berlin) proves to be – until its jaw-dropping final scenes – an uneven and at times laborious take on one of Bach’s most luminous œuvres.
Shape of YouTube
How did we ever live without YouTube? It has saved my day many times with do-it-yourself tutorials, it also helps me with cooking, yoga and education of all kinds. Mostly I watch recordings of dance performances, which I can do for hours. But only after seeing a live performance of Forecasting by Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico (Premier Stratagème) in 2013, during Platforma HR Festival in Zagreb, did I start paying attention to choreographic patterns in non-dance YouTube videos.
[8:tension] at ImPulsTanz Vienna 2018
Indeed, several of the selected works are provoking and at times tedious, but this may be an inevitable by-product of inventing new forms of performance: the unknown is not comfortable.
Dance+: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The Girl lives in a basement flat, its flaking walls plastered with the faces of rock and pop stars. The Girl may need blood, but she loves music (a deleted scene from the film sees her lying, fully clothed, on her bed, next to a young man named Arash; they reel off the names of their favourite musicians, eyes dreamily fixed on the ceiling). This scene catches her in a quietly ecstatic, languorous celebration of a song, Farah’s ‘Dancing Girls’.
Jo Bannon: We Are F*cked
Three women are insouciantly occupied with a measuring tape, a roll of cable and a vacuum cleaner – but there’s a hum to this humdrum. A barely audible background hum that rises and falls. More unnervingly, there’s the rattling of those bodies and props quietly shaking: subtle, small and rhythmic, as though releasing spores of timeless female grievances into the air.
Jefta van Dinther: Dark Field Analysis
In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, an experimental technique that can miniaturise matter, for up to one hour, is used to shrink a team of people to the size of single cells and inject them into the body of a brilliant scientist, on a mission to a relieve a blood clot in his brain.
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