Palais Attems, Sackstraße 17, 8010 Graz
Information and registration:
p +43 664 24 500 89
boxler@steirischerherbst.at
Participation is free of charge.
Based on the theme of this year’s festival “Back to the Future”, the young Austrian choreographer Simon Mayer joins the participants to explore the subject of “legacy” with regard to one’s own body: what memories and habits are manifested in our posture, movements and gestures? The conscious confrontation with this topic allows us to free ourselves from blocks and unwanted legacies. In some cases, traditional forms of dance and music are used that have often been forgotten today, in order to create a contemporary awareness of one’s own body. Exercises in perception, for example attentive observation and listening, on the one hand, and pleasurable improvisation with one’s body and voice, on the other, not only enable entertaining experiences of the self, but also offer a playful approach to the aesthetic devices of contemporary dance performances.
Hosted by Simon Mayer
Simon Mayer (AT)
Simon Mayer was born in 1984 and is an Austrian performer, choreographer and musician. He studied at the Vienna State Opera Ballet school and the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) and was a member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Mayer performed in productions by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Zita Swoon and was Artist in Residence at the Thatre LL in Brussels. Furthermore, he performs solos, duos and group pieces and worked as artistic head of the “SPIEL Festival”, which he co-founded.