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Un Apres-Midi

Autorenschaft
Beschreibung

#8 Interpreters on the 02.12.04, Festival „Lignes de Corps“, Valenciennes/France

Finn Random, Leo Rapallo Tolkachov, Nathan Kilman, Shannon Shy


/ ABOUT /

„You see what you think they are hearing.“ (H.W.)


The choreographic project Un après-midi happens in the space between score and interpretation. (In every presentation four new unrehearsed drag kings interpret a score which they hear for the first time during the performance.) The score is based upon a game of interrelated (mis-)interpretations, translations, and authorships: The composition written by Henry Wilt is founded on an earlier version by Antonia Baehr and William Wheeler. It is based on a musical score on paper on the one hand (John Cage „Solo for Voice Nr.3“) and a musical recording on the other hand (Replays of Claude Debussy’s „Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune“). The texts encompass furthermore two photo-lovestories from teenage zines and a purely physical method to show feelings. Through this, Henri Wilt watches the construction of the love-couple under a feminist/queer light, and the performativity of female masculinity.


„The landscape has its formation and as after all a play has to have formation and be in relation one thing to the other thing and as the story is not the thing as any one is always telling something then the landscape not moving but being always in relation, the trees to the hills to the fields the trees to each other any piece of it to any sky and then any detail to any other detail. (…) Anyway the play as I see it is exciting and it moves but it also stays and that is (…) that might be what a play should do.“ – Gertrude Stein in „Plays“


/ CREDITS /

COMPOSITION: Henry Wilt

WITH: Finn Random, Leo Rapallo Tolkachov, Nathan Kilman, Shannon Shy


DIALOGUE: Werner Hirsch (from the film „Kings & Disasters“)

SOUNDSCAPE: Antonia Baehr

SOUND COLLABORATION: Paul Paulun

ADDITIONAL MUSIC: Jamie Lidell „Taught to box“

PRESENTED BY: Antonia Baehr and Werner Hirsch

MANAGEMENT: Ulrike Melzwig



Letter to Interpreters 


Hello!


We are looking for four interpreters for the project

„Un après-midi # 8“ (Valenciennes Version)

that will take place on the 2nd of December, 2004 during the Festival „Lignes de Corps – Femmes Choréographes“ in Valenciennes, L’Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini.


The score of „Un après-midi # 8“ is by Henry Wilt. The performance is presented by Antonia Baehr and Werner Hirsch.


Who can do it:

Women or persons who have lived as women for some time in their lives.


– You should have the desire to dress up and pass as a man. You can be an experienced Drag King, or one to be born. Drag King Werner Hirsch (alias Antonia Baehr) will be delighted to give you birthhelp.


– You should have the desire to get told during 30 minutes of your life what to do, since the piece is not rehearsed but the interpreters hear the instructions over headphones. The instructions are in English, but you don’t need to speak perfect English.


If you are interested in doing it, Henry Wilt will send you mail containing further details and answers to your questions (an answer to an often asked question: you don’t need to be a dancer or athletic to do it – but it’s not forbidden either -, you won’t have to take your clothes off, and there is no sex on stage).


Time commitment:

about 2 hours to discuss outfit and learn how to use your MD player during the performance (30.11.), about half an hour to make a final decision about outfit together with the other performers (01.12.), you decide when to arrive for the performance (02.12.), you will probably need some time for make-up


Payment:

100 €


Clothing is not provided. Please come with your own male (drag) clothes.

The proposition for this version is to be our male colleagues in their daily clothes. If you don’t own male clothes, you could borrow them from your male friends.


with best wishes,


Antonia Baehr & Ulrike Melzwig

(for Henry Wilt)




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Darsteller
Standorte
MCB
Aufnahmedatum
Mittwoch, 01. Dezember 2004
Stadt
Valenciennes
Land
FR
Länge
30 min
Schlagworte