underbody

This 15-minute performance follows on from last year’s cooperation with Johannes Braumann and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It is based on Gertrud Bodenwieser’s play “Dämon Maschine” (1923), in which five dancers turned into one machine. Now, five machines play one dancer. Whereas in the original performance each person controlled a part of a machine, an industrial Kuka robot now controls a body part. Choreographer and dancer Silke Grabinger goes into a dance with this marionette. The dancer is confronted with a “manly” technology, an animus, with whom she is also confronted in herself. In the dance it can become unclear who reflects whom, who reacts to whom or who leads whom. The question arises as to the relevance of Bodenwieser’s assessment that in the existing form of society machines prevail over people instead of people controlling machines.