THE FELINE PROJECT
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Dagmar Dachauer
THE FELINE PROJECT - PREMIERE
a performance
Concept, Choreography: DAGMAR DACHAUER
Co-Creation and Performance: DAGMAR DACHAUER, KILIAN IMMERVOLL
Video: KILIAN IMMERVOLL
Sound Design: MANUEL RIEGLER
Costumes: MÉLANIE DUCHANOY
Dramaturgy: EDITH CASSIERS
Light Design, Technical Solutions: JANKO OVEN
Producers: DUSANA BALTIC, KATJA SOMRAK
Produced by: UMFUG
Co-produced by: PLESNI TEATER LJUBLJANA, C-TAKT, BÜRO FÜR TANZ I THEATER I PRODUKTIONEN, MUSIKTHEATER LINZ
Supported by: DE WARANDE, SZENE SALZBURG, D.ID, DOMMELHOF, SEOUL DANCE CENTER, GC DE KROON, TANZFABRIK REDSAPATA, A.I.R. RESIDENCY@ART SPACE STIFT MILLSTATT, K.A.K. KOEKELBERGSE ALLIANTIE VAN KNUTSELAARS, ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURE LAB
DANCE ON TOUR AUSTRIA - A project by Tanzquartier Wien in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
The programme of Plesni Teater Ljubljana is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture RS and Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture
About the performance
Cats rule the Internet. An endless stream of images and videos, memes, vines and gifs, create the most viewed content online.
Through video, live camera and a hyper detailed movement language, Dagmar Dachauer and video artist Kilian Immervoll, share the stage and explore interactions between humans, cats and robotic pet equivalents – using the elusive Internet cat as a vantage point. They reflect on the changing relationship between the human and the non-human, the wild and the domestic, the natural and the technologized. Hovering between humor and the uncanny valley, they touch a hidden snare: the ongoing search for companionship and comfort.
‘The Feline Project’ by the Austrian choreographer Dagmar Dachauer / UMFUG is a production with two performers on stage. Dance and performance as central disciplines interact with video images and sound. In this project, Dagmar Dachauer further opens her dance practice towards digital media.
Based on her dance background, she has developed a very precise and detailed movement language and searches for the greatest possible cohesion between the various scenic means; looking for how digital media and our daily online life change our view of humans and the world, of ourselves and our environment. In the development of her own formal and aesthetic stage language, she also raises the focus of her circus background.
In her dance film series ‘Competing for Sunlight: The Tree Cycle’, in collaboration with video artist Kilian Immervoll, different tree species played the leading role. For ‘The Feline Project’, Dagmar Dachauer zooms in further on the changing relationship between human and non-human beings. In 'The Feline Project', she deepens the core theme of loss and nostalgia, which, since her solo ‘Wunderbare Jahre’ (2015) and its short version, ‘Wie soll ich das erklären’ (2016), are recurring themes.
In the run-up to ‘The Feline Project’, Dagmar Dachauer - initially again unconsciously and naturally - shifted her focus to comfort and transformation. Two phenomena remained: the omnipresence of cute cat content and images on the internet - apparently they are clicked more often than porn - and the development of robopets for social interaction, as for example in old people's homes.