Doubt in Frame / Queen of Sweden Killed Descartes
Doubt in Frame / Queen of Sweden Killed Descartes
Doubt in Frame / Queen of Sweden Killed Descartes
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DOUBT IN FRAME
DASHA MAZURKA
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full title: Doubt in Frame / Queen of Sweden Killed Descartes
"René Descartes died on 11 February 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had been invited as a teacher for Queen Christina of Sweden. The cause of death was said to be pneumonia."
Guardian, Wednesday 17 February 2010
The creation happens through two different media, the stage work and the open source -framework.
Stage work:
Doubt in Frame / Queen of Sweden Killed Descartes is a collaboration by four Finland-based dance-artists, media-artist and polish choreographer/director Dasha Mazurka. In the new creation Mazurka and her collaborators are focusing on the theme of doubt in relation to the different domains of culture such as sexuality, religion and history of philosophy.
In this work doubting is being considered as an activity, which is profoundly present in everything we do and how we are. It is a fracture between perceiving and acting – the space where the possibility of choice occurs.
With the means of choreography and performing arts, we are focusing on the questions such as:
How to navigate and perceive simplicity in the contemporary information society where we are most of the time overwhelmed by the multiplicity of choices? How can we transform the moments of uncertainty in the creation process into the material of the performance?
Doubting, being in the intermediate space between the belief and the disbelief, is in the same time personal and shared phenomenon. It unfolds repetitiously in an artistic process as well as it establishes itself in the very base of the theater which is by definition an encountering of the private and the public.
Open Source – frame for artistic practice:
Open source is a concept familiar from computing and information technologies. In this project there is an attempt to apply the concept to the dance and performing arts practice. It is a responce to the question: what kind of forms dance practice can take and in what kind of forms artistic practice can be articulated?
Dasha Mazurka Open Source will be available for the public from 29th of October onwards on www.dashamazurka.net. It is a form of distributing artistic work, ideas and information, and making these available for further development and variation. It is constructed of modules which are diverse in content, medium and function. Thematics of doubt and uncertainity is binding these modules together. Dasha Mazurka Open Source invites and commissions artists to participate this frame of inter-local activity which does not demand physical presence.
Credits
- Concept, Choreography, Scenography and Music: Dasha Mazurka
- Performers: Andrius Katinas, Jukka Huitila, Maria Saivosalmi, Mikko Hyvönen, Veli Lehtovaara and Dasha Mazurka
- Residencies: workspacebrussels; Dansens Hus, Stockholm; Art Printing House, Vilnus.
- Co-producers: Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Moving in November -festival, Dasha Mazurka
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With the support of: Arts Council of Finland, Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Dates
01/08/2011 - 21/08/2011 / Rosas
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exchange program with Zodiak Helsinki
production dates:
- 01/08/2011 - 21/08/2011 / workspacebrussels (residency)
- 22/08/2011 - 18/09/2011 / Zodiak, Helsinki (residency, co-production)
- 19/09/2011 - 09/10/2011 / Dansens Hus, Stockholm (residency)
- 29/10/2011 - 04/11/2011 / Moving in November -festival (coproduction, performances)
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08/10/2011 - 15/11/2011 / Zodiak (coproduction, performances)