Norbert Pape, Yuri Shimaoka, Pêdra Costa, Göksu Kunak, Elena Polzer
Participating artists:
Franziska Aigner, Ardot Aslan, Kelley Becker, Marly Borges, Zinzi Buchanan, Helen Burghardt, Yara Colón, Emese Csornai, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, Emeka Ene, Christian Filips, Chris Gylee, Gil Guimarães, Alexander Hahne, Michael Kaddu, Dongkyu Leo Kim, Linards Kulles, Ariel Nil Levy, Cami Malenchini, Sheena McGrandles, Magdalena Meindl, Lyla Palmer, Sunny Pfalzer, Rain Rose, Lotte Ramínez Speiser, Simon Speiser, Vera Varlamova, Rude Vianna, Cristina Viegas.
Video documentation:
Andrea Keiz
Music (intro):
Yara Colón
Logistics:
Simone Graf
Thanks to:
Marina Naprushkina, Kolja Kohlhoff, Claudia Ehgartner, Barbara Campaner
With support of
NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.
"O" is a speculative Sci-Fi re-take of Steve Paxton's "Satisfying Lover", the iconic piece from 1967 in which 40 people did ‘nothing more’ than walk across stage. His intention was one of democratisation of dance, but also of analysing habitual movement, and often in relation to the laws of physics. We want to take the act of walking a step further: each step is not only a falling, a dance with gravity, but also a pushing back of the planet Earth with one’s feet (Newton's third law of motion). Consequently, if enough of us walk in the same direction in a circular manner long enough, we can alter the rotation of the planet, deviating its course ever so slightly, but hopefully significantly.
