MAMAZA/Ioannis Mandafounis/Fabrice Mazliah
(CH/GR/IL/Genf/Frankfurt)
eifo efi
Mousonturm Saal
25YMT/Choreography/Dance
- 07.06.2014, 8 p.m.€ 12 / red. € 6
The dance collective MAMAZA specialises in the shifting of boundaries and the liquefaction of transitions. eifo efi focuses on that tempting stimulation, which we experience when eye and mind let go of meaningful and distinct supporting elements, recognizable individuals and defined identities in order to lose themselves in the teeming flood. In a “play about sight”, Ioannis Mandafounis and Fabrice Mazliah create a virtual environment of multiple impressions and forms of movement.
Choreography, Performance, Concept: Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah * Dramaturgical advice: Liz Waterhouse, David Kern * Technical direction: Harry Schulz * Production manager: Johanna Milz * sponsored by Fonds Doppelpass der Kulturstiftung des Bundes * Coproduction: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, The Forsythe Company, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kunstenfestivaldesarts * Thanks to Dorothee Merg * made possible by Tanzlabor_21 / Tanzbasis Frankfurt_Rhein_Main.
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Biography
MAMAZA
www.mamaza.net
MAMAZA steht für Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah und May Zarhy. 2007 begann die enge Zusammenarbeit der drei Choreografen und Tänzer, die alle in verschiedenen Kontexten der Forsythe Company verbunden sind. In ihren Arbeiten kreieren MAMAZA einen choreografischen Raum, der die Spannung zwischen dem visuellen Bild und dem physischen Befinden, das es im Zuschauer erzeugt, in Frage stellt. Ihre Zusammenarbeit sieht das Kollektiv nicht als künstlerischen Kompromiss, sondern im kontinuierlichen Austausch, Befragen und Erproben vielmehr als Rückbesinnung auf die Quintessenz, die ein Stück ausmacht. Zwischen 2012 und 2014 waren MAMAZA im Rahmen der Doppelpass-Förderung durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes Artists in Residence am Mousonturm.
Biography
Fabrice Mazliah
Fabrice Mazliah is a choreographer and performer based in Frankfurt / Main. Having collaborated and produced works with the Forsythe Company until its closure, Fabrice has initiated a long-term research into the embodied knowledge and heritage inscribed into practitioners in the field. He is interested in understanding and renegotiating the relationship between our environment, its objects, its atmospheres, and our bodies, ourselves and its potentialities. In his works, he regularly places the role of the receiver/perceiver in the centre of attention and celebrates the richness of possible perspectives that can be embodied on stage. His pieces provoke the collision of experiences and challenge binary views – allowing for a moment of suspension between the instants of perception and interpretation. He is interested in combining movement with language, in developing new forms of narrativity and poetry.