Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe

MEETING

  • Dance
  • Tanz im August

Audience engagement formats for "MEETING"
Dance Circle mit Susan Leigh Foster: 20.08. | after the performance | HAU3
Meet the Artists: 21.08. | after the performance | HAU3
Physical Introduction: 22.08. | 18:00-19:00 | HAU3

A robot-assisted recital: in a circle of 64 computer-controlled machines that drum complex rhythms onto the floor, Antony Hamilton and his colleague Alisdair Macindoe carry out synchronous, symmetrical, coordinated minimal movements. Influenced by urban popping and locking, the duet merges the organic with the mechanical. Hamilton and Macindoe come across like acrobats in a circus ring, then like robots performing monotonous tasks on an assembly line. Finally they rearrange themselves and the ‘drum tappers’, and the choreography becomes a mechanically animated sound installation: after the initially meditative tapping comes an increasingly polyphonous buzzing, ringing and drumming, as in a toyshop or a clockmaker’s. A magical mechanical-human dialogue, with which the Australian choreographer and the dancer and instrument-maker Alisdair Macindoe are appearing in Berlin for the first time.

Duration: 50min

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Cast

Choreographer, Director and Performer: Antony Hamilton / Instrument Design & Construction, Composer, Performer: Alisdair Macindoe / Lighting Designer: Ben Shaw / Costume Designer: Paula Levis / Producer: Insite Arts - Freya Waterson

Dates

Past
  • Thu 20.8.2015, 18:00 / HAU3
  • Fri 21.8.2015, 21:00 / HAU3
  • Sat 22.8.2015, 21:00 / HAU3

Location

HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin

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