Upcoming LIVE Broadcast:
Work-in-progress presentation of the new interactive dance DIALOGUE ‘120dishes’
Andrea Haenggi/AMDaT (CH/USA/CHINA)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Tanzhaus Zurich, Switzerland
Time:
Zurich 19:30
New York 1:30pm Eastern Time

This performance will be streaming LIVE for FREE on DANCE-TECH.NET
www.dance-tech.net/profile/dancetechTV

To interact with the performers during the performance, the audience can send text messages (SMS) to +41774597326.
The messages will be projected on the walls and impact the performance.


For the development of her new interactive dance work DIALOGUE ‘120 dishes’ at a two-week residency at Tanzhaus Zürich, director/choreographer Andrea Haenggi invited six female performers living and working in Switzerland, New York and China, and the Chinese artists Zhao Xiaoyu (composer) and Xiaohua Sun (new media). Haenggi approaches DIALOGUE ‘120 dishes’ as a social experiment in communication, set on and around an arrangement of conference tables. It is a dance piece, a theater work, an installation, and a verbal dialogue. Cultural differences are being explored through language and movement/gesture as the key elements defining who we are. Another focus of the residency was to research ways that would give the audience the desire and the opportunity to interact with the performers and influence the performance in real time by sending text messages containing their thoughts, feelings, and reactions to what they are seeing. The work will be further developed in New York and Beijing.