UNLIKELY PLACES
In line with his ongoing interest in biography and autofiction as inspiration for his choreographic work, Ian Kaler investigates the relationship between movement practice and stage setting in his new solo, UNLIKELY PLACES. Together with set designer and long-standing artistic collaborator Stephanie Rauch, he designs an assemblage of past spaces and pieces dedicated to both verbal and non-verbal engagement with traces and relics of the ephemeral. In an interplay of narration, space, soundtrack and embodiment, a multimedia stage experience about locating a fleeting art form and its narratives emerges.
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is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker and performer. He studied Transmedial Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Brigitte Kowanz and graduated from the BA pilot programme Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography at the HZT in Berlin. Kaler has an MA in Film Making (Directing Fiction) from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2010, he has developed his physical and creative practice in choreographic series in exchange with different artists through different (visual) media. Some of the core themes his work addresses are embodiment and coming of age through a trans-masculine lens, the figurative composition of the still and moving body, the relationship between bodies and the space/s they inhabit, horses and other sentient beings and encounters with them.
Credits
Artistic direction, choreography, text, performance, voice-over Ian Kaler Video performance Luca Bonamore, Adela Maharani Voices dream sequence Chiara Aprea, Su Huber, Adela Maharani, Mira Mann, Eve Schmechtig, Izabela Iza Soldaty, Enis Turan Space Stephanie Rauch Music, soundtrack rRoxymore Video design, assistance text & dramaturgy Dafne Narvaez Berlfein Lighting design Catalina Fernandez Sound design Sebastian Bauer Voice-over recordings Andreas Hamza Technical direction Marco Tölzer Text coaching Jane Palmer Vocal coaching Aled Pedrick Production management das Schaufenster – A co-production by Ian Kaler and Tanzquartier Wien. Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports. Research fudned by Arts Council England. Thanks to Markus Gradwohl, the research workshop participants, the Draxler family, Claudia and Christoph Kaler.
In English with English surtitles