Skatepark
They fly through the air and defy gravity, listen to music, chat, laugh, sing, and dance. At the skate park, people from different communities get together, syncing their own body in co-ordination with the movements of the others and practising virtuoso physical experiments. With her new work, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen depicts the skate park as a performative space and expands the common dance vocabulary to include kickturns, 180s and boardslides. Antidote, a global architectural firm specializing in skate parks in public spaces designs a site that features ramps and rails, a stage setting that is as functional as it is extraordinary. In Skatepark, ten skaters play with the possibilities afforded by the space, the boards and community in a multitude of parallel actions. A vibrant choreography for the stage, carefully structured and condensed, is thus created from everyday culture.
A joint project by Tanzquartier Wien and Wiener Festwochen
is a Danish choreographer and dancer. Her work is characterised by hybridity and extends choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual arts, technology, language and theory. Since establishing her company in 2003, her work has been presented widely throughout Europe, as well as in the US, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. An important strand of her work was developed between 2009 and 2012 with The Artificial Nature Series, in which she focused on reconfiguring relations between human and non-human agency through choreography. By contrast, her series, The Red Pieces (2014–2017), inscribes itself into a history of human performance with a focus on nudity, sexuality and how the body historically has been a site for political struggles. Most recently, she showed her solo piece The Dancing Public and All Around, a duet with the drummer Will Guthrie, at TQW.
Credits
Concept, Choreography Mette Ingvartsen With Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary-Isabelle Laroche, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Birzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus, Arthur Vannes, Camille Gecchele and local skaters Choreography assistance Michaël Pomero Sound design Anne van de Star, Peter Lenaerts Light design Minna Tiikkainen Scenography Pierre Jambé (Antidote) Dramaturgy Bojana Cvejić Technical direction Hans Meijer Production, administration Joey Ng Production assistance Oihana Azpillaga Camio Management Ruth Collier Production Great Investment vzw Coproduction Wiener Festwochen & Tanzquartier Wien, La Danse en grande forme (CNDC – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, la briqueterie CDCN val-de-marne, CCN Ballet national de Marseille, Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN (Roubaix), La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse-Occitanie, MC2: Grenoble), deSingel (Antwerp), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Gent), Kaaitheater (Brussels) & Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, NEXT Arts Festival (Kortrijk), Ruhrtriennale (Bochum), La Villette & Théàtre national de Chaillot (Paris), Theater Rotterdam, Perpodium (Antwerp) Supported by Wilhelm Hansen Fonden. Great Investment is supported by Vlaamse Overheid, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, the Danish Arts Council and Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Concept, Choreography Mette Ingvartsen With Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary-Isabelle Laroche, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Bîrzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus Sound design Anne van de Star, Peter Lenaerts Light design Minna Tiikkainen Music Felix Kubin, Mord Records, Why the eye, sonaBLAST! Records, Rrose, The Fanny Pads, Restive Plaggona Scenography Pierre Jambé (Antidote) Technical design set Stéphane Thonnard Construction set Joachim Pochet, Joachim Hesse, Pierre Jardon, Yves Philippaerts, Andrea Messana, Boyd Gates Dramaturgy Bojana Cvejić Costumes: Jennifer Defays Choreography assistance Michaël Pomero Technical direction Hans Meijer Sound technician Milan Van Doren Light technician Bennert Vancottem Production, Administration Joey Ng Production Oihana Azpillaga Camio Communication Jeroen Goffings Management Ruth Collier Production Great Investment vzw Coproduction Wiener Festwochen & Tanzquartier Wien, La Danse en grande forme (Cndc – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, la briqueterie CDCN val-de-marne, CCN Ballet national de Marseille, Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN (Roubaix), La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse-Occitanie, MC2: Grenoble), deSingel (Antwerp), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Gent), Kaaitheater (Brussels) & Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, NEXT Arts Festival (Kortrijk), Ruhrtriennale (Bochum), La Villette & Théàtre national de Chaillot (Paris), Theater Rotterdam, Perpodium (Antwerp) Supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Programme, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Vlaamse Overheid, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, the Danish Arts Council and Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie Residency Rosas, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, deSingel
Tickets are available through Wiener Festwochen.
We recommend a minimum age of 12 years to see the performance.
The performance on 20.05. will be followed by an artist talk.