Performance from the series Fourteen Functional Failures
Data: 21 octombrie, ora 20:00
Durata: 30 min
Concept & Performance: Lee Méir
Dramaturgy & Voice training : André Lewski
Sound, Light Design & Dramaturgy : Gretchen Blegen
Specials Thanks to HZT-Berlin and Uferstudios Berlin.
The solo series fourteen functional failures, puts into practice questions regarding rhythm, time and failure, within complex relations between language, body, voice and sound. It examines specifically the failure existing between words and actions, and aims to flesh the instability of words, and reclaim an intensity of the bodily through taking words out of their comfort zone. The series is built of fourteen solo’s (failures) variating in length, and created and performed, in different contexts. Each failure serves as an independent performance unit (a bit like a music album), but also as a study towards the next failure.
The format of a longterm series emerges from my need to challenge the conditions set out by the contemporary dance market in which choreographers are depending on language in order to make dance happen (grant writing, applications, funding bodies). I feel an urgency to create for myself a framework in which I research and present work from an early stage, even in a raw state and regardless of whether I receive institutional support or not. This framework allows me to establish an on-going practice of performing, and creates melting points between theory and practice, reflection and experience. Lee Méir
Lee Méir (IL/DE) is an artist working in choreography and performance between Berlin and Tel-Aviv.Her choreographic works examine states of paradox, the artificiality of the performative situation and the tension between words and actions. Her solo Translation includedwas awarded first prize at Israel´s Biennale for young choreographers 2011. She completed Choreography studies at HZT-Berlin (2013) and received grants from the Berlin city council, The Israeli ministry of Culture and a Danceweb scholarship (2014-2015).
Her works have been shown in festivals and venues such as: Tanz im August, Berlin / the Brighton Festival / Antistatic, Sofia / Tanzquartier Vienna a.o. Alongside her work as a solo artist, she often works in collaborative formats, seeing this as a way to challenge the conceptual authority of the single artist. Together with Maya Weinberg they form the Duo the defaults of self indulgence in which they explore the relationship between boredom and creation. She enjoys collaborations with artists such as deufert&plischke, Jasmin Ihraç, Otso Huopaniemi, André Lewski, Roni katz, a.o.
