AUDITION : CALL FOR PERFORMERS (male/female)

[Gilles Jobin]

AUDITION : CALL FOR PERFORMERS (male/female)

NEW CREATION OF CHOREOGRAPHER RAFAEL ALVAREZ

February 10. & 11.2009, 11 a.m.:: FRANKFURT, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
February 13.2009, 11 a.m.:: BERLIN, Sophiensaele, Virchowsaal

The portuguese choreographer Rafael Alvarez is selecting 1 performer for his new piece – LONG DISTANCE CALL, a performative trio to be premiered in Frankfurt and Lisbon, produced by Festival Plateaux (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt) co-produced and Festival Temps d’Images (Lisbon) and EIRA (Lisbon).
The candidates should have experience in developing work between contemporary dance, performance and installation. As the creative process will focus on identity and geography, we are searching specially performers with non-european background as well as interdisciplinary training.

The creation and rehearsal process will take place from March 9 – 20 (Lisbon) and from March 30 – April 24 (Frankfurt).

Premiere will be on April 23 and 24 (Frankfurt Plateaux Festival), further shows in November 2009 (Lisbon)

::Interested persons are requested to visit one of the auditions given above (please bring a CV along).
An elaborated application is not necessary – though a short advance notification by e-mail mentioning
full name, contact and audition to visit is welcome: [e-mail]

:: For more informations about the work of Rafael Alvarez, please go on www.rafaelalvarez.jimdo.com.

:: Please check www.mousonturm.de for more information about
Plateaux – New Positions in International Performing Arts.

About the work:
This performance project assumes the form of an interdisciplinary work, focusing on a creation process around Identity, Objects, Cities, Love Relations and Travels.

LONG DISTANCE CALL intends to give a special focus to the dichotomies and paradoxes played between the different geographic realities of each performer.

One of the main purposes of this research and creation project is to develop performative work about Identity and Geography under a global perspective.
Analyzing the ways these dichotomies are played and subverted in everyday life, the raising questions always refer to the constant transformation of biography, communication and language, post-colonialism, local traditions, economy and globalization, mythes and stereotypes, dialogues and conflicts.

This interdisciplinary performance project aims to create and generate a diverse range of materials that contents performative bodies, video and sound, purposes to talk about distances, home, neighbours, strangers, families, tourism, money, maps, frontiers, stereotypes, meaningless objects, rarities, lovers, couples, copies, languages, fake and reality, biographies, mirrors and other effects, cities, the old and new.