Frédéric Gies:
Workshop
Workshop
WORKSHOP
The dancers of Seven Thirty in Tights invite you to a dance workshop to continue dancing the ballroom dance of the future with them.
LECTURE
Sylvie Tissot, Professor for Social Sciences at the Université Paris 8, presents her new book: Good Neighbours /De bons voisins (Raison d’agir, Publishing House, 2011.) She dedicates this study to the forms of coexistence in a city, which supposedly have the goal of social diversity. In the end the disparities don’t diminish but rather lead to new distinction strategies within the urban elite.
Seven Thirty in Tights
Picture the ballroom dance of the future. Imagine this dance and its consequences are the result of an intense physical dialogue between dancers – an interaction of distinct group decisions in which all react to the impulses of the others and are forced to find answers in a split second. Now imagine this dance was a political practice.
CHOREOGRAFIE, SCORE Frédéric Gies DANCE Sandro Amaral, Evamaria Bakardjiev, Frédéricde Carlo, Frédéric Gies, Thiago Granato, Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir, Ligia Manuela Lewis, AntonijaLivingstone, Guillem Mont de Palol, Odile Seitz LIgHT DESIGN Ruth Waldeyer COMPANY MANAGEMENt Christian Modersbach
Seven Thirty in Tights is coproduced by Frédéric Gies and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Developed during a residency in Weld. Supported by fabrik Potsdam in the score of its programme Artists-in-residence. The programme Artists-in-residence is funded by Brandenburger Ministerium für Infrastruktur und Landwirtschaft with Mitteln des Hauptstadtvertrages and Landeshauptstadt Potsdam.
photo © Damir Zizic
Frédéric Gies is a dancer and choreographer. Between clockwork composition and the intensities and chaos generated by dancing bodies surrendering to the desires and forces that traverse them, their dance pieces bring to the forefront the capacity of dance to speak without having to demonstrate or represent. Drawing from their former training in ballet, their encounter with specific trends of contemporary dance at the beginning of the 90s, their dance floor experiences in techno clubs and raves and their study of somatic practices, they approach forms as possibilities rather than constraints.