Dance Theatre

H / A / U / T

Musiktheatertage Wien, 9. & 11.09.2016
Transart 20.09.2016

music

Jagoda Szymtka

Choreography

Rose Breuss

Dancer

Cie. Off Verticality

Idea

Reinhard Fuchs

SOUND Design

Christina Bauer

PHACE

Sylvie Lacroix, flute
Yaron Deutsch, electric guitar
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano/sampler
Berndt Thurner, percussion
Ivana Pristasova, violin
Sophia Goidinger-Koch, viola
Roland Schueler, cello

In H / A / U / T , Rose Breuss, Jagoda Szmytka and PHACE play with sounds, images and noises and examine the materiality of sound. „Sound touches the skin, penetrates cloth, gets into the bones. It’s intermediate. Bodies immersed in sound are not only touched; they coalesce with the sound“.

Jagoda Szmytka

Born in Legnica (Poland) in 1982, Jagoda Szmytka studied art history, philosophy, music theory and composition in Wrocław, Graz, Frankfurt/Main and Karlsruhe. Her music has received international recognition through numerous features at festivals and institutions such as Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Lucerne Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival,  Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT Stuttgart, Ferienkurse Darmstadt, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Royaumont Paris, Polish National Opera Warsaw and many others. Among other things she received Staubach Honorarium and the Stipend Prize of the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, scholarships from the DAAD, the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, residencies at Herrenhaus Edenkoben  and La Muse en Circuit Paris. In 2017 artist in residency at Villa Serpentara. Many time artist-in-residency at ZKM|Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In 2015 WERGO/EZM released her portrait CD “BLOODY CHERRIES”. Jagoda Szmytka composes “for people”, “about people”, “with people”. Szmytka’s “social composing” examines social and interpersonal processes such as communication and identity often in relation to phenomena that influence modern life or referring directly to the social dimension of making music. Szmytka’s “intertextual music” is written for ear, eye and thought – incorporates mixed-media, trans-media and cross-genre formats – her compositions are mixture of texts, images and sounds that build dense structures in reference to high & pop culture, philosophy, or reality (music theater projects: LIMBO LANDER – social-media music theatre, LOST – trans-media music theatre, LOVE LABEL – mass-media music theatre). Jagoda Szmytka is a founder and leader of two projects: PLAY – Platform for art and culture social initiatives & ENTER – Collective specialized in performing Referential Music.
http://www.jagodaszmytka.com/jagoda_szmytka.html

Rose Breuss

Born in Vorarlberg, Austria
Studies: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, Theaterschool Amsterdam, Temple University Philadelphia USA, University of Surrey, Labanotation Institute.
Choreographed for a number of theatres and festivals pieces with her own company and with the support of Stadt Wien, Stadt Linz, Land Oberösterreich und Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst: Niederösterreichische Donaufestival, Wiener Festwochen, Kammeroper Wien, dieTheater Künstlerhaus, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Posthof Linz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, szene bunte wähne, Jeunesse musicale, Wiener Konzerthaus, Klangforum Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Grand Theatre Luxemburg und Philharmonie Luxemburg, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Bregenzer Festspiele, Odeon Wien, Berliner Sophiensäle. Together with Johannes Randolf she founded  2009 the Dance Company Cie. Off Verticality C.O.V in Linz.From 2010 – 2011 residency for choreography  in Wiener Odeon.

Prizes: Max Brand Preis for experimental music, Theodor Körner Preis for Science and Art, Prämie des Bundeskanzleramtes for the choreography “Drift”
Since 2006 Director of IDA – Institute for Dance Arts at Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, habilitation 2005.
Guest teaching: u.a. Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Universität Salzburg Musik- und Tanzwissenschaft, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt, CEFEDEM Bordeaux, Academy of Performing Arts Bratislawa.
http://www.rosebreuss.com