Cecilia Bengolea
Same Same Joy, 2017
Cecilia Bengolea, deren Arbeiten stark von ihrem Interesse an der Anthropologie des Tanzes und der Bewegung geprägt ist, hat sich in letzter Zeit intensiv mit der Kunst und Kultur des Thai-Boxens beschäftigt und dessen Techniken und Bewegungsformen in ihre neue Arbeit einfliessen lassen. Diese bringt sie nun aus der feuchten tropischen Hitze in die klirrend kalte Bergluft von Gstaad. Ihre Performance und die intensiven und persönlichen Choreografien inmitten von Flutlicht und bewegten Bildern, die in den Schnee projiziert werden, suggerieren einen Kampf zwischen Körper und Natur, Erfindung und Tradition.
Live performance: Samstag 4.2., 20.15h
Videodokumentation im Wartesaal Bahnhof Gstaad ab Montag 6.2.
Same Same Joy, 2017
Due to bad weather conditions, the chair lift Eggli Gstaad and Bergrestaurant Eggli are closed tonight.
NEW LOCATION
North Pole Food & Bar
Rübeldorfstrasse 90
3792 Saanen
Performance starts at 8.00pm
Cecilia Bengolea is a performance artist with a particular interest in dance anthropologies. Her reflections on antropological dance are represented in paroxysmal performances, both modern and primitive, civilised and pre-civilised. Animals fascinate her as a force, a fear that also exists in dance and sex among her.
She has collaborated with a number of visual artists, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jeremy Deller and Damion Wallace. During her residency at Delfina Foundation Bengolea will be developing a new collaborative film with Jeremy Deller, commissioned by the Sao Paulo Biennale and Hayward Gallery London. She will also be exhibiting a new film installation and performance commissioned by Art Night London 2016.
Since 2005 she has collaborated with François Chaignaud, their works Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009) won the award de la critique de Paris and the Young Artist prize at Gwangju Biennale in 2014. Other collaborative works include Castor et Pollux (2010), Danses Libres (based on choreographies from François Malkovsky, 2010), (M)IMOSA (with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011), Altered Natives Say Yes To Another Excess – TWERK (2012) and DUB LOVE (2013). In 2014 they were commissioned by the Opera de Lyon to a ballet piece entitled How Slow the wind, music composition Toru Takemitsu. In 2015 they were commissioned by the Ballet de Lorraine to produce a ballet entitled DEVOTED (2015) set to music by Philip Glass. In September 2015 they premiered The Lighters, Dancehall Polyphony, a piece for Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wupperhal. Bengolea and Chaignaud are currently preparing for an exhibition of new and old works for Dia:Beacon and Chelsea Galleries due 2017. Together they have recently exhibited at Centre Pompidou Paris, the Kitchen New York, Tokyo Spiral Hall, La Biennale de la Dance de Lyon, Sadler's Wells Theatre London, Faena Art Center Buenos Aires and Fig-2 at ICA London.