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Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Orange Rest

The Orange Rest/Sacrifice” offers a Vitamin Boost and the possibility to rest and rejuvenate. Facilitated as a simple station to take a break from hectic life, oranges get prepared to be juiced by a curious visitor, resting on them. The Oranges may choose amongst themselves which one will be sacrificed ( the ones that crack open). Accompanied by softly performed whistling, a present guide imitates bird sound to help the oranges to move about, as in many cultures the bird is a psychopomp helping to overcome thresholds, from life into death. Meanwhile the rest, a juice will be prepared for the visitor.

“The Orange Rest/Sacrifice” is a former form, originally designed by Toni Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter for their work “Spinner”. Reflecting on the economy and after lives of performance materials, former forms acts as a recycling and reanimation method for practices, thoughts, such as concrete materials and staged scenes.

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Booking info:

The installation is ongoing and interactive, suitable for indoors and outdoors. It is accessible to people with limited movability with the support of a caretaker. The oranges have to be organised on location.

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Credits:

Concept development: Toni Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter

Performance development: Toni Steffens

Production and Support: Picnic Pavillon Venice, QRU Amsterdam, Fraslab Frascati Amsterdam, Dansmakers Amsterdam, 2019, Pact Zollverein Ateliers 2022

     

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Silvia Susanna, 2019 Venice, Picnic Pavillon

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Rosella Damiani, 2019 Venice, Picnic Pavillon
Silvia Susanna, 2019 Venice, Picnic Pavillon

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Former Forms
Former forms appear as materialised memories or “half-forgotten” materials in the realm of performing arts or life arts. Being both elements of former performances and elements that have been appeared and performed before, former forms mostly work as reminder of pasts, that one is unable to memorise or as defaults and disturbances of functions that belong to their former life, and which they now do not want to associate with anymore. Becoming dysfunctional in respect of their past, former forms are desperately asking the viewer and collaborator to revisit their agency while not forgetting their former identity. Former forms can be found within set design, sounds, physical practices and words. They operate in relation to their significance: while being mostly still identified as a sign x they claim to not be able to any longer represent or pursue specific ideological or functional activity and ask for state of retirement or repurpose. Former forms are mostly philosophically ahead of their users, entering into their living context to open up discourse and  perspective on what they are or became in the meantime. Former forms in that respect detect potential futures while remembering their own pasts. These futures though can only be generated by collective intervention and radical reconsideration of what those forms are able to be. Former forms attract humans in the re-pre-mirror state, who are again not able to sharply identify the borders of subjects and/or subobjects. Former forms are therefore intersubjective subobjects dealing with the chronics of significance of non-humans, that have been utilised by humans in order to write fiction, to not say history. Their main function can be seen in the stubborn insistence of motivating the human to re-evaluate this function and utilisation and hopefully rewrite, actualise and alternate their function.Former forms refer to holographic processes that transform information into form that expresses frequency. Former forms long for an activation that alters their frequency and detects their hidden information expressing their desire of being and not their function of being.

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PAST-Present-future

February + March: teaching Movement Research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
16th of March: performing at the Finissage, the seeds of Memory by Mercedes Azpilicueta, together with Toni Brell and Antonella Fittipaldi, Fries Musem, Leeuwaarden
April: teaching Movement Research, BA and MA of choreography, ISAC Brussels
18 +19 of May: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, PS1, MOMA, New York City
March-June : teaching Movement Research, BA theater pedagogy,  at Technical University Osnabrück
26 of July: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, VAC Vilnius
September/ October: teaching Movement research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
28th of September: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, Porto ( tbc )
5th of October: sketch presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Nederlandse Dansdagen, theater aan het Vrijthof Maastricht
15+16 of November: performing the Archive,presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Plein theater, Amsterdam
end of November : workshop on drawing x movement, Crèche Amsterdam (more details to be announced)
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