Christopher Engdahl's Proposal

Title: An album of a dog
This slideshow is meant to be presented alongside Stella's Installation Frauen Danst Frauen. At the same space (or somewhere nearby) and for the same duration.


The work An album of a dog came out of a desire to somehow reproduce or reenact Frauen Danst Frauen. The aim was to have Stella's documented performance continue. It was important to have it remain and continue differently. As something else. Stella's dance performance thus became a photo-album. The dog, who is a part of Stella's dance piece, presents an undecidability of his/her role in Stella's reconstruction. The dog's actions and movements are accentuating any (unavoidable) unpredictability involved in dance reconstructions. In the project of dance reconstructions the dance always becomes something different. Sometimes it becomes a photo-album of a dog.

Link  to the work.


Requirements:

• A computer with internet connection (the slideshow will be played through swedance.ning.com).
• A table or plinth (for the computer to be placed on).

Note: Stella will be the person in charge of presenting An album of a dog at Pandemic.

Stella's Proposal.

Title: Frauen Danst Frauen
Video Installation
Duration: 8’ 35’’ (in loop)

No costumes, no narrative, plot, nor sense of place…
Frauen Danst Frauen is a reconstruction of Rosas Danst Rosas (1983) by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, an allegory of industrial process and of the social roles imposed on women.
Mother with daughter, sitting next to each other are copying the worker-bee movement routine. They sit down, their hair swings around their heads, they grasp onto their breasts, they stand up then sit down again, their arms reach out and retract like pistons in a copy press.
Frauen Danst Frauen is an excavation into the personal and emotional, filtered by and expressed through a purely mechanical choreography.

Requirements:
Space: A small quiet room.
Technical Requirements: A Video Projector, a DVD player, a pair of speakers.
Other requirements: A small sofa just for two spectators placed in front of the projection.

Link to the video.