With THE MORTON FELDMAN PROJECT, Sabine Glenz continues her exploration of influential modern composers: In “Phasen.Machen” (2017), she undertook choreographic research on the music of Steve Reich, while “Rhizom” (2018) was dedicated to John Cage’s “Three Constructions.” In THE MORTON FELDMAN PROJECT, she develops an open choreographic structure for a long-term performance based on Morton Feldman’s Second String Quartet.
Eight dancers come together in ever-changing constellations or break away from them. Movement sequences with open beginnings and endings, different entrances and exits allow for independent action within a clearly defined improvisational structure. Fluidly and imperceptibly, form gradually builds up and collapses again.
The film “Farbfelder” (Color Fields), produced in February 2021 by Franz Kastner (camera) and Alejandro Valbuena (painting), is inspired by Mark Rothko’s color field painting; painted motifs gradually and imperceptibly change their structure, color, and form. Visual and auditory spaces are combined through the voices and bodies of the performers.
The first performance of the Morton Feldman project took place in December 2021 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and was filmed from within the center of the space using a rotating camera. Visitors were free to move around the rooms and thus became part of the recording. This is an essential component of the walk-in sound-space-image-dance installation that took place in January 2022 in the large hall of The Wiese.
The transfer of the live performance into a multimedia installation and the juxtaposition of digitality and reality leads to an intimate intertwining of various aspects of sound, body, space, and time, adding another subtle layer to them by mapping the present and the past onto each other, as well as digital and analog appearances. The installation, with its live interventions, is an invitation to experience time as an almost infinitely extended moment, as a shared spatial and physical movement.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 12. und 14.12.2021
Konzept, Künstlerische Leitung: Sabine Glenz. Dramaturg: Matthias Quabbe. Musik: „String Quartet No.2“ von Morton Feldman. Live-Interpretation: Streichquartett des Ensemble Resonanz (Gregor Dierck, Frédérique Gulikers, Lea Tessmann, Tim-Erik Winzer). Tanz: Viktor Braun, Jonathan Bringert, Marcelo Doño, Sara Ezzell, Clàudia Ferrando, Angela Kecinski, Fernanda Ortiz, Larissa Potapov. Film „Farbfelder“: Franz Kastner, Alejandro Valbuena. Produktionsleitung: Levin Handschuh. Uraufführung:
In Kooperation mit dem Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe und dem Ensemble Resonanz. Gefördert durch die Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung und die Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. Dank an die Wiese e.G.
große Halle der Wiese eG, 21. und 23.01.2022
Konzept, Künstlerische Leitung: Sabine Glenz. Dramaturg: Matthias Quabbe. Musik: „String Quartet No.2“ von Morton Feldman. Live-Interpretation: Streichquartett des Ensemble Resonanz (Gregor Dierck, Frédérique Gulikers, Lea Tessmann, Nikolaus Schlierf). Tanz: Sara Ezzell, Clàudia Ferrando, Angela Kecinski, Fernanda Ortiz, Larissa Potapov. Aufzeichnung im MK&G: Franz Kastner. Film „Farbfelder“: Franz Kastner (Kamera), Alejandro Valbuena (Malerei). Organisation, Kommunikation: Felix Wittek.
Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ – STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz. In Kooperation mit der Wiese e.G. und dem Ensemble Resonanz.
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