ACFNY SUPPORTED | PERFORMANCE | DORIS UHLICH: ENERGETIC BODIES AT MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Renowned Austrian choreographer, dancer, performance artist Doris Uhlich comes to NYC for a week-long residency presented by Movement Research. Uhlich opens with a performance at Judson Church on May 19th followed by her daily workshop ‘Energetic Bodies’.
Doris Uhlich
May 19 – May 23
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
12:30PM – 2:30PM
Avenue C Studio
Energetic Bodies
In this workshop I will share my practice of experiencing movement, which goes beyond our imagination and expectation. We will search for movement that we cannot plan because the body takes over and our mind follows. The body will be ready to surprise our mind. We will start to find pleasure in arriving at our physical limits and not be afraid of entering unknown fields where the energy of movement is more important than the form. We will work on my concept of ‘pleasure chaos‘, ‘strong instabilities‘, ‘spreading vibes‘ and ‘the flow of duration‘. We will have fun in sweating, shaking, and letting explode all our physical power. The motto is: Not holding back. We will take the word con-temporary literally – we fill the present with our energetic physicality and feel what it means to dance contemporary, to dance in the present and move the present.
*With support from Austrian Cultural Forum New York
>> For more information, please visit http://www.movementresearch.org/
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Doris Uhlich | Born 1977 in Upper Austria, Degree in „Paedagogy for Contemporary Dance“ / Conservatory of Vienna, member of theatercombinat 2002-2009, own projects since 2006, “Remarkable Emerging Choreographer“ in the Yearbook of Ballettanz 2008, dance prize of bm:ukk (ministery of education, art and culture) for “SPITZE” 2008, “Dancer Of The Year” in the journal “tanz” 2011, “award outstanding artist 2013” in the category performing arts of bm:ukk (ministery of education, art and culture)
Projects include (among others) insert.eins / eskapade (premiere imagetanz 2006), 00331452553201 (premiere Tanzquartier Wien 2007), und (premiere imagetanz 2007), Auf den Tisch! (Improvisation Tanzquartier Wien 2008), SPITZE (premiere brut / Vienna 2008), Uhlich (Sketch, premiere Tanzquartier Wien 2008), Plus qu´il n´en faut (“more than enough”, premiere Les Subsistances / Lyon 2009), Glanz (premiere brut / Vienna 2009), Loggia (premiere Burgtheater / Vienna 2009), Johannen (premiere 15. Internationale Schillertage in Nationaltheater Mannheim 2009), Lipsi Swan (Sketch, play! Leipzig 2010), Before Swanrise (Sketch, Tanznacht Vienna 2010), Rising Swan (premiere brut / Vienna 2010), Uhlich (premiere Wiener Festwochen 2011), Sneak Preview (Sketch, Stadtkino Wien 2011), SIROD (Project with students, WUK 2012), Showcase “Alles Uhlich” (brut / Wien 2012), Come Back (premiere steirischer herbst 2012), more than naked (premiere ImPulsTanz 2013)
Guest peformances include (among others) BAC / London (2008), Baltic Circle (2011), Bregenzer Festspiele (2009), brut / Vienna (since 2007), Centre Pompidou / Paris (2009), Chelsea Theatre / London (2009), Choreographic Platform Austria (2009, 2012), Dampfzentrale Bern (2011), Festival a/d Werf (2012), Festival Impulse / Bochum, Düsseldorf, Köln, Mülheim (2009), Festival Latitudes Contemporaines Lille (2011, 2012), Festspielhaus St. Pölten (2011, 2012), Gessnerallee / Zürich (2011), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (2012), Grütli / Genf (2011), Hebbeltheater / Berlin (2011), ImPulsTanz / Vienna (2008, 2011, 2012), Inbetween Time Festival / Bristol (2010), Judson Church / New York (2011), Kaserne Basel (2011), Les Halles de Schaerbeek / Brüssel (2010, 2011), Les Subsistances / Lyon (2008), Mousonturm / Frankfurt (2009), LOFFT / Leipzig (2010), Natura Dèi Teatri / Parma (2011), Österreich tanzt / St. Pölten (2008, 2011), play! LEIPZIG (2010), Politik im freien Theater / Köln (2008), Rencontres 02 / Marseille (2009), Sommerszene Salzburg (2008), Southbank Centre / London (2011), steirischer herbst (2012), Tanz! Heilbronn (2010), Tanzquartier Wien (2009), TRAMA / Porto (2011), Wiener Festwochen (2011), Wunder der Prärie / Mannheim (2011)
Co-curatorship of the island “ALLREADY“ at Tanzquartier Wien 2008
Residences include (among others): Austrian Cultural Forum / NYC, Les Subsistances / Lyon, ImPulsTanz / Vienna, brut / Vienna, Tanzquartier Wien, k3 / Tanzplan Hamburg
Performer in “Ganymed Boarding” in “Kunsthistorisches Museum” / Vienna 2010
Artist in Residence at Festspielhaus St. Pölten 2011/2012
Participant at “Work It!”, an artistic exchange between asian and european artists in Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia 2012
Mentor in the project “Mentoring für Künstlerinnen / Mentoring for artists” of the bm:ukk 2012/13
Teaching include (among others) Tanzwerkstatt Wien, ImPulsTanz / Vienna, Academy Of Fine Arts / Vienna, Conservatory of Vienna, k3 / Tanzplan Hamburg, Festival Herzrasen / Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Tanzhaus Zürich, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Theateracademy Helsinki, 16. Internationale Schillertage / Nationaltheater Mannheim, Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale), Beijing Fringe Festival / China
>> For more information, please visit http://www.dorisuhlich.at/en
VENUE
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South