Just in Time is deufert&plischke's most radical approach to audience involvement yet. Over a period of three years (2016-2018), they are collecting personal memories, experiences, opinions, clichés, and anecdotes in "letters to dance" written by people in Berlin, New York, and Tel Aviv. Participants hand-write a personal letter, address it to dance, and sketch or describe a favorite movement.
From September 18 to October 6, visitors to the Goethe-Institut will be able to write their very own letter to dance at the letter-writing station in the library, and/or participate in a
letter-writing workshop on October 5 with project coordinator Kareth Schaffer!
The letters will be published in an anthology in 2018. After each phase of collecting letters and movements in the respective cities, a ball is organized during which the favorite movements of the inhabitants of each city become the choreographic score for a communal choreography.
Just in Time is a radical approach to audience involvement, because the entire project is built with the audience, who provide the content (letters), choreographic material (favorite movements), and performance (ballroom) of the project.
Together with local dance artists who perform their individual letters to dance, deufert&plischke collect letters and movements in theaters, public spaces, schools, and at community gatherings. After performing their work
Directory: europe endless at the Wyoming Building in 2014, deufert&plischke are returning to NYC in 2017 and 2018. In February 2018, a durational performance will conclude the
Just in Time project with performed letters to dance, piano music by Alain Franco, and a final ball with all of NYC’s favorite movements.
Kattrin Deufert and
Thomas Plischke (together the artists in deufert&plischke) live and work in Berlin. Over the past 15 years, they have realized several theater projects that deal with situations of artistic production and the complex social dynamics and logistics of artistic processes. Their works reach beyond the scope of dance and theater and focus on individual participation and daily life in artistic events. These works create different artistic environments that suspend the everyday by comprehensively integrating and processing it into art.
Concept, realisation: deufert&plischke | Realization, coordination: Kareth Schaffer, Jaime Wright | Music: Alain Franco | with: Valda Setterfield, Jannet Panetta, Kareth Schaffer | Production management: Annett Hardegen | Supported by TANZFONDS ERBE – an initiative of Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Coproduction: Goethe-Institut
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