Erinnerungsräume – spaces of memory I, II, III
“Erinnerungsräume” (Spaces of Memory) is to be understood as a project of instalments.
A project that offers imaginary patterns in time and space and in terms of its choreography presents the existing world in new variations. As spectators, we do not feel excluded but involved. When they enter their “spaces of remembrance”, they don’t get lost in introverted thoughts but start to interact with the other dancers and the audience. From a formal point of view, Sebastian Prantl perfectly matches the characteristics of a post-modernist performance: in his work, (theatrical) illusion and reality merge, but not through forced fraction or pedantic “look – I’m just acting” attitudes, but because the dancing takes place on an almost naturalistic level. Sebastian Prantl’s Tanz Atelier has also overcome dance theatre, for his work foregoes psychoanalysis and the display of emotional states. Even though his dancers react in psychologically motivated ways, they do so because they (we) are made of this psychologically emotional substance and not because they (we) are psychologically damaged in any way. Why they (we) are as they (we) are, interests neither the dancers nor Prantl nor the audience. The dancers have not wrenched its secret from space, but instead made it visible in its grand architecture. In the process, the perception of the audience has been challenged and perhaps even changed. […]”
[Edith Wolf-Perez, dance journalist, founder of www.tanz.at]
[Spaces of Memory I – Semper Depot, Vienna, April/May 1996]
concept/choreography: Sebastian Prantl
music concept: Cecilia Li
compositions: Franz Schubert, Dimitri Schostakowitsch
dancers: Ziya Azazi, Robert Eugene, Herbert Gottschlich, Othello Johns, Sebastian Prantl, Shih Kun-Chen
musicians: Ceclilia Li (piano), Klara Flieder (violin), Vincent Stadlmair (violoncello)
light/technical works: Martin Walitza
sound/technical works: Michael Renner, Richard Valentin Strauss
organization: Katharina Rosenstingl
[Spaces of Memory II – Studio production of Tanz Atelier Wien, November 1996]
concept/choreography: Sebastian Prantl
music concept: Cecilia Li
dancers: Ziya Azazi, Shih Kun-Chen, Doris Reisinger
organization: Katharina Rosenstingl
[Spaces of Memory III – Studio production of Tanz Atelier Wien, April 1997; dance festival in Bytom and Krakow, June/July 1997]
concept/choreography: Sebastian Prantl
music concept: Cecilia Li
dancers: Ziya Azazi, Shih Kund-Chen, Ingrid Reisetbauer, Doris Reisinger, Julia Todd
organization: Katharina Rosenstingl