PLAY Series

2023 - 2024

Four women, four hours. Between stillness and movement, object and subject, four dancers compose their bodies as danced tableaux vivants. PLAY combines dance and visual art into an interdisciplinary durational performance marked by repetition. Oscillating between sculpture, painting and dance, the everyday flood of digital images is countered by the immediacy of the decelerated, tender and dangerous body.   

PLAY VI
falling/flying/holding

2024

Performed at Dock11, Berlin (2024)

Artistic direction: Mirjam Gurtner
Creation/Performance: Asuka Riedl, Erin O’Reilly, Laura Gaillard, Melissa Kieffer
Light/Stage: Julian Hoffmann
Production: Pascal Moor/Spring Production, Chris Wohlrab/TATWERK I Performative Forschung
Coproduction: Theater ROXY Birsfelden, 48-Stunden-Neukölln Festival
Cooperation: TATWERK I Performative Forschung  
Photo: Yen Lee

Kindly supported by Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater BS/B; Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung; Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin; Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung; Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung; Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art; Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS; Stiftung Corymbo

PLAY V
touch/crash/fly

2023

Performed at Fasono Studio, Berlin (2023)

Artistic direction: Mirjam Gurtner Creation/Performance: Laura Gaillard, Asuka Riedl, Melissa Kieffer, Mirjam Gurtner Production: Pascal Moor / Spring Production Cooperation: FASONO Studio Berlin
Co-produced by Theater ROXY Birsfelden,
48-Stunden-Neukölln Festival Berlin  
Photos (from left to right, top to bottom): Manfred Bogner, Andreas Kuonath

Supported by Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater BS/BL, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung, Fondation Nestlé pour l‘Art, Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Stiftung Corymbo, FASONO Studio Berlin

PLAY IV
falling/flying/holding

2023

Performed at Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (2023)

Artistic direction: Mirjam Gurtner Creation/Performance: Laura Gaillard, Asuka Riedl, Erin O’Reilly, Mirjam Gurtner Production: Pascal Moor / Spring Production Cooperation: Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal
Co-produced by Theater ROXY Birsfelden, 48-Stunden-Neukölln Festival Berlin
Photos: Daria Kolacka


Supported by Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater BS/BL, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung, Fondation Nestlé pour l‘Art, Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Stiftung Corymbo, BLKB Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank, Aikido Schule Liestal, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal