Concept: Cyril Baldy + Tilman O'Donnell
After a two-month residency in the fall of 2014 at Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique as part of an agreement between the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut and fabric Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst, Cyril Baldy and Tilman O’Donnell are continuing their research this summer. Montreal artists
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines,
Adam Kinner,
Dana Michel and
Jacob Wren are invited as guests in the final phase of work to share challenge, and present their own or synthesized works in the context of
Whatereverness Singularities on September 8, 9 and 10 at the Goethe-Institut.
Both choreographers/dancers quote John Kelsey to summarize their approach:
But the practices that interest us now are those that embrace the condition of whateverness itself as an experimental possibility. There are moments when the only way to make something happen is to become a stranger in one’s own studio, in the very act of producing and in the face of our own products… [ ]… which is to say that the “artists life”, if we could still call it that, is an attempt to elaborate a constant and precise relation to non-specificity, and to invent new and specific ways of presenting this. (Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art)
Projections on the windows of the Goethe-Institut
Follow the evolution of Cyril Baldy’s and Tilman O’Donnell’s work on the windwos of the Goethe-Institut every evening from sunset to midnight.
Cyril Baldy
Born in France, Cyril Baldy studied ballet in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur. He worked with the Jeune Ballet de France, Nederland Dans Theatre II, Nederland Dans Theatre I and Ballett Frankfurt, before the Forsythe Company from 2005 to 2014.
Since 2014, alongside teaching internationally, choreographing and staging William Forsythe’s repertoire, he co-created his own art direction company named Sad.
Tilman O’Donnell
Tilman O’Donnell (U.S. / German) received his training at the National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada. He joined The Göteborg Ballet in 2001. In 2002 Tilman worked at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, and thereafter joined the Cullbarg Ballet from 2003 to 2007. He was a member of The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt from 2007 to 2012, and a guest artist until June 2015.
Tilman made his debut as a choreographer in 2002 with
Del A, receiving first prize in two major international choreographic competitions. In 2005 he was nominated both “Dancer To Watch” and “Choreographer To Watch” by the leading European magazine Ballett Tanz. Beside teaching, he has been creating works since 2011 for various companies, including Cullberg Ballet, Staatstheater Graz, Göteborgs Operans Danskompani and Corpus/Royal Danish Ballet. In 2015, the magazine Tanz nominated him “Hoffnungsträger”.
Concept: Cyril Baldy + Tilman O’Donnell –
With: Cyril Baldy, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Adam Kinner, Dana Michel, Tilman O’Donnell, Jacob Wren –
Interns: Karin Bergman, Lydia Margareta Elisabeth Östberg Diakité.
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