February 22–25, 2017
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
HAU1, Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin
HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin
HAU3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin
T +49 30 25900427 / tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de
Questions of kinesthesia, perception, affect and sensation have been crucial to most of the works by the Danish choreographer and dancer Mette Ingvartsen. The retrospective presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer focuses on her works dealing with her research that extend choreography into non-human materials. The Artificial Nature Project, Speculations, and evaporated landscapes look into choreography no longer as the organisation of bodies and their movements in space. Rather choreography is understood to be the relationship that operates between the human and non-human elements, as they magically float and move into space. The movements that appear do not only show up in space but also within the bodies of the spectators due to the sensations and perceptions they encounter throughout the performances.
Programme:
Mette Ingvartsen, evaporated landscapes (2009)
February 22–25
HAU3
Mette Ingvartsen, The Artificial Nature Project (2012)
February 22, 24+25
HAU2
Mette Ingvartsen, Speculations (2011)
February 23–25
HAU1
Thing | Dark | Speculation | Word : a conversation with Mette Ingvartsen’s works
With André Lepecki and Mette Ingvartsen. Moderation: Bettina Knaup
February 23
HAU2
Mette Ingvartsen started studying in 1999 in Amsterdam and Brussels, where she graduated from the school for contemporary dance P.A.R.T.S. in the summer of 2004. Since 2002 she has been developing her own works, including Manual Focus, 50/50, to come, Why We Love Action and It’s in the air. Many of these have been shown at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and at the festival Tanz im August. Her works deal with changing perspectives and the perception of the body in various presentational contexts. Alongside her artistic work Mette Ingvartsen takes part in research projects on questions of production in the performing arts. The solo 69 positions (2014) and the group work 7 Pleasures (2015), which both deal with the political dimension of the naked body and sexuality in our contemporary society, were recently shown at HAU.
The retrospective is supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
