Doris Uhlich “More than Enough”, AT

Sun, 09.09.2012, 20h, HKD

Language: English

 

This event is made possible by INTPA -INTERNATIONAL NET FOR DANCE AND PERFORMANCE AUSTRIA of Tanzquartier Wien from funds by BMUKK and BMeiA

 

About the performance:

In “More than enough” Doris Uhlich asks herself and her audience how the body can become a trademark and what this means. Doris Uhlich – who is often called a “corpulent dancer” in newspaper reviews – questions the importance of the outer mantle and the meat underneath the skin. How dominant is the outer image of a body within the reception of a dance performance? Is there such a thing as the perfect body for dance? And finally: Who is beautiful and who isn’t? What does the word “beautiful” mean?

In live interviews over the phone Uhlich talks to people whose bodies don’t meet the beauty standards and who have therefore become trademarks. Do these people create such trademarks by themselves or do others do this for them? What strange phenomenon are we currently witnessing where everybody wants to be unique yet no one breaks ranks? The Baroque epoch with its urge for overabundance creates the basis for a bodily and textual discussion of flesh and opulence where the activity of bodies will be mirrored in the previous works of Doris Uhlich.”

About Doris Uhlich

Doris Uhlich, born in 1977 in Upper Austria, holds a degree in „Pedagogy for Contemporary Dance“/Conservatory of Vienna, was a member of theatercombinat and realizes her own projects since 2006. She was called “Remarkable Emerging Choreographer“ in the Yearbook of Ballettanz 2008 and won the dance prize of the ministry of education, art and culture (bm:ukk) for “SPITZE” 2008

www.dorisuhlich.at

 

credits:

Choreography: Doris Uhlich

Dramaturgy: Andrea Salzmann and Judith Staudinger

Performance: Doris Uhlich and Tale Dolven

Production: Marlies Pillhofer

A coproduction of Doris Uhlich, brut Wien, Les Subsistance/Lyon.

With support from the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture.