Assemblages (2011)

A somatic-sonic performance. Premiered in April 2011 at Tanz Fabrik Berlin/Wedding- Ufer Studios With support from: CANADA COUNCIL for the ARTS, Kuenstlerhaus Lukas, Tanzfabrik-Berlin, and Tanzwerkstatt Berlin.

Year

2011

Co-created and performed by

Shannon Cooney and Sabine Vogel

Musician/performer

Sabine Vogel

Sound Engineer, Sound design assistant

Anke Eckert

Lighting Design

Jan Langebartes

Costume Design

Heather MacCrimmon

Production Management

Judith Hoch

Distribution

Anne-Christine Liske

Assemblages - Shannon Cooney, Sabine Vogel

Description

Assemblages: a series of performed selections of sound/dance proposals derived from the assembling and interaction of rocks, small stones and sand.

The sounds and movements are developed with the sensitivity of the visual/kinesthetic design and the movement of sound in the space. This is a duet with dancer and musician, and through the piece the roles interchange as sound maker/mover.

Assemblages invites the public to engage in a visual somatic sonic experience. Where time based actions replace theatrical narrative.

Within the process is a search for transformations subtle or explosive, to shift from one action to another. What does that sound feel like? What does that dance sound like? What time does that sound need to finish? Where in the space does that sound resonate?

Body is a resonator. Witness as a resonator. The space is a vessel for felt sound.Objects seamlessly become subject and subject becomes object. In the work, Assemblages dance is heard-felt and sound is seen. 50 minutes.

Trailer

Impressions

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In the ending part of the performance Vogel & Cooney have picked up four handfuls of small stones that act like a kind of castanets, with which they quietly create sound to their movement, when they as a finale perform a perfectly synchronized act of motion. So eventually the musician transformed into dancer and the dancer into musician. Assemblages is certainly an example/role model of where the non genre dependent art is heading.

Peter Uhr

ÖSTGÖTA CORRESPONDENTEN, Sweden mai 2011

The collision of movement, object and sound create these worlds drenched with textures that envelop you. The piece brings us to a heightened sense of listening and then renders moments of profound silence

Jeremy Wade

Choreographer Berlin, May 2011

Shannon Cooney and Sabine Vogel have approached the locus of movement-and-sound in a unique way, such that sound-making activity is used to create movement, which is then deployed structurally. The roles of sound, sound-making, movement and movement-making are engaged as equal partners in a complex interaction. This is a highly commendable and innovative strategy.

Douglas Henderson

Berlin, Juni 2011

Shannon Cooney

Dance Artist | Choreographer | Dance Educator | Craniosacral Practitioner

Shannon Cooney’s dance practices, creative research for her teaching and craniosacral work are parallel and interweaving streams. They are derived from her deep curiosity, experiences and wonder with the body and her connection with nature. Dance is the source for her connection to body-based practices: creating the ground for body and mind’s capacity for movement, imagination, healing and connection. Nature is a source for co-creative balance within all processes.

Contact

Studio / Practice space:
S. Cooney TANZ PRAXIS, SCHLESISCHE STR. 20, 4.OG. Aufgang Farbrikgebäude links zwischen 2. und 3. Hof
Public transport:
U-Bahn Schlesisches Tor, 450m walking or Bus 265 direction: S-Schöneweide, One Stop: Taborstr.
or
S-Treptower Park, walking 1,3 km or Bus 265 direction: U-Stadtmitte/Krausenstr. Three Stops: Taborstr.