2013.03.09(Sat) 15:30-16:30

Shun Art Gallery RM103/208, Building 3,

No.50 Moganshan Rd ,Shanghai

 

 

This showcase is a joint cooperation with the Tanzcompagnie Rubato, Jutta Hell, Dieter Baumann (choreographer/dancer, Berlin), Jonathan Baldock (visual artist, London) and Li Ling Xi (choreographer/dancer, Shanghai).

 

The performance is divided into two sections, based on the concept of artists who on residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel. It emphasis on the potential body expressiveness, extends from the purely physical action to the status of installation.

 

 

Two Figures in a Landscape
 

Choreography JUTTA HELL

Dance / Creation         DIETER BAUMANN / LI LING XI 

Costumes / Sculptures JONATHAN BALDOCK
 

The piece is an ongoing metamorphosis of body and costume/sculpture. A path through different landscapes of form and meaning, casual and ritual. Of the costumes and sculpture designed for the Tanzcompagie Rubato in Shanghai, Jonathan Baldock says, “My practise continually references the human form. Therefore, it seemed a very natural progression to place a ‘live’ human body within the work”. Taking inspiration from references as disparate as the cloaked monk of Medieval Europe, Chinese Opera and Modernist abstraction, the outfits consider the idea of costume as sculpture and painting, which through the movement of dance become live painterly forms of expression. 

 

Choreography JUTTA HELL

Dance/Creation         LI LING XI

Music / Soundmix DIETER BAUMANN
 

Through the source of her own dance history in classical and folkdance, dancer Li Ling Xi remembers her heritage and follows the path of changes and breaks from the past into the present.