Dance Performance Choreography Film
Following Beatrix
Nov. 2nd, 2016 11-2 pm at five different locations throughout campus
Concept/Score by Wiegmann. Performed by Bernard Brown, Jennie Mary Tai Liu, Carol McDowell, Cheryl Banks-Smith, Devika Wickremesinghe and Flora Wiegmann
The Score:
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Performed at Union Station, as part of the Seattle Art Fair
Curated by Laura Fried
This work was initially conceived for the former site of a Culte Antoiniste temple in Brussels, Belgium. The religion, founded in 1910, combines elements of Catholicism, the cycle of reincarnation, tolerance of all other faiths, healing through simple rites and rituals, and transcending the limits of intellect towards higher consciousness. Halo of Consciousness investigates imagined actions that could be unique to Antoinism, the history of movement and ailments that reside in the two dancers’ bodies, and the possibility to activate consciousness through meditative events.
Choreography by Wiegmann
Performed by Wiegmann and Rebecca Bruno
“Silence is the highest degree of wisdom”………Louis-Joseph Antoine
The musical accompaniment for each section is heard only by the dancers throughout the duration of the piece. The soundtrack is played both before and after the dance.
The general operation
The shadow rises
Invocation
A damaged organ
The ritual, immutable
Intercession
The trough of the wave
Wakefulness
Paintings by Thomas Lawson, Sound Installation by Nina Waisman, Choreography by Wiegmann
Peformed by Wiegmann, Allison Wyper and Jos McKain at the LA><ART Gala, Greystone Mansion
Dyslexicon
at C. Nichols Project
April 1-30, 2014
Review of Dyslexicon, May 2014, by Carol Cheh
Wall text served as dance instructions for participating choreographers including: Rebecca Bruno, Margherita Elliot, Busy Gagnes, Jil Stein, Christine Suarez, Lisa Wahlander, Alexa Weir, Allison Wyper, and Flora Wiegmann. Each worked individually to create repeatable dances based on each text. The closing reception allowed for each interpretation to be showcased side-by-side, resulting performances containing obvious artistic difference and surprising similarities.
Camden Arts Centre, January, 2014
Performed by Wiegmann, Stella Dimitrakopoulou and Margherita Elliot
Costumes and paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp
Flora Wiegmann and Alexa Weir collaborate on a three-part performance which spans the course of 3 months. The first act will be performed on Sunday, September 15th at 7:30 pm. The second act will occur in October after Wiegmann and Weir rearrange, investigate, diminish, and expand the material. The final act will follow suit in November. Through the viewing of all three parts, the process of making is revealed while the performers investigate the question of when a dance is ready to be performed.
click here for Press Release
The original version, Allay Alight, was performed at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2012. This solo performance occurred in the same physical space as James Lee Byars’ Perfect Square. The first line of paper laid out for his performance acted as the structure for Wiegmann’s work some 38 years later. As an alterable and transportable piece, iterations have also been performed at the center line of a soccer field and along the East River in NYC.
30 minutes, performed on June 22nd, 2013 at 356 Mission, Los Angeles
FLY
A Choreography and Digital Animation Collaboration at LA><ART
By Flora Wiegmann and Miljohn Ruperto
Debuting April 25-27th at LAXART
After a few seconds they’ve come to a tactical decision and they begin to do what they can, to buzz and try to lift themselves.
For FLY, Wiegmann and Ruperto have conceived of a work that uses six performers to reenact Flypaper by Robert Musil (1880-1942). Musil’s essay Flypaper painstakingly describes the struggle and incipient death of an unlucky housefly stuck upon a ribbon of flypaper. In a new adaptation, Flora Wiegmann has choreographed six dancers to move as fly appendages, reenacting the plight of Musil’s creature. Pauses in the dance score open to a lenticular LCD screen. Mounted on a plinth, it displays an insectile animation mirroring the choreography. In these various registers of scale that begin with Musil’s fly, corporeal movement is staged, captured and distributed in separate approximations of size, form and life force.
In order to make this work, six dancers’ movements were recorded in a motion capture studio and eventually assigned to a digital model of a house fly. The resulting video is a life-sized image of a fly, powered by human action.
May 4, 2013
Swimming
An improvisation in Nina Waisman’s piece “Body Envelope”, in preparation for a performance at 7pm on November 8, 2012, at Villa Montalvo. Mariah Maloney and Natalie Metzger will also be creating performances in the “Body Envelope” interactive sculpture. More info here:
montalvoarts.org/events/as_we_move/
Sounds are triggered at each sensor, these sounds mash-up the 1920’s high-life at Villa Montalvo with life outside of this bubble. Moving towards or away from the sensors increases or decreases speed, pitch, volume. Thus the sound-scape is always different, composed in collaborations between the visitor and the piece.
The piece is used in performance, and in installations and public spaces where passers-by can explore and compose within it.
Flora Wiegmann creates choreography in Nina Waisman’s piece “Body Envelope” from nina waisman on Vimeo.
Dance Serpentine from florawiegmann on Vimeo.
Dance Serpentine, Artist’s Ball, January 2012
In collaboration with Jedediah Caesar, performed by Alexa Wier
After researching previous Matrix Live Performances that have happened in this soon-to-be-gone gallery space, I decided to combine informal images from the preparation for a James Lee Byars performance and images from Orchesis, the dance club of sorts that was assiciated with the school years ago. Blending these two very different times and reasons for movement (physical education and utilitarian task), I created a 12-minute dance piece.
Collaboration with Amy Granat, Ginger Island Exhibition at the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York City, as part of Performa11
The Miami Set
Ana Cardoso Amy Granat Flora Wiegmann
By invitation of Liutauras Psibilskis
NADA Art Fair 2010, Miami Beach, December 2 – 5, 2010
Co-produced by OUTPOST NYC DCG (outpostnycdcg.com)
December 2 – 5, 2010. From 12 to 6 PM daily an ongoing performance by Flora Wiegmann. December 3 at 1 PM – a performance by Amy Granat and Flora Wiegmann. Ongoing conversations and updated screenings daily.
The Miami Set is a project by Ana Cardoso, Amy Granat and Flora Wiegmann for NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach, by invitation of Liutauras Psibilskis. The presentation includes a sculptural fabric installation by Ana Cardoso that will create environment for the project, an interview & conversation channel by Amy Granat and Ana Cardoso, an ongoing screening installation by Amy Granat as well as dance performances by Flora Wiegmann. The Miami Set is a constantly changing venue open to development through the interaction with the public. This ongoing performative presentation will be displayed at the Lobby of the Deauville Beach Resort hotel where NADA 2010 takes place and is co-produced by OUTPOST NYC DCG.
Images from a performance of Wandering (detail), a suite of 13 one-hour performances in the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, 2010. Each performance served as an exploration of the 13 women depicted in the original Mary Wigman photographs on which Wandering (still) was based. Much like the film, where the bodies’ positions in space served as structure for the movement, each improvisation was an investigation of the physical attributes of each woman, inscribing a fictional narrative of her own individual movement habits in a tangible way.
Cinema Zero with Amy Granat
David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Thirteen two-hour dances were performed in partnership with Silke Otto-Knapp’s show Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position. Each individual performance is signified by a differing color accent on the costume. Instead of using video, each session was documented with a still camera that took photographs at 30-second intervals. When viewed in a series, the viewer fills in the gaps between one moment of the dance and the next; the actual movement and passage of time are not experienced but are understood.
Work, 2009, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada from florawiegmann on Vimeo.
The video features the movements by three individuals (Jacinto Astiazaran, Fritz Haeg and Flora Wiegmann) taking place in three distinct zones of the LACMA campus: La Brea Park, LACMA plaza, BCAMA.
The video was produced on the occasion of the Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA on Satuday, November 15th, 2008
Video by Jacinto Astiazaran
LACMA ALPHA BCAM from fritz haeg on Vimeo.
Press Release:
LACE is proud to present a re-invention of Allan Kaprow’s seminal Happening –18 Happenings in 6 Parts – originally presented in 1959 at the Reuben Gallery in New York. The original work featured a cast of performers including Allan Kaprow, with Rosalyn Montague, Shirley Prendergast, Lucas Samaras, Janet Weinberger, Robert Whitman, Sam Francis, Red Grooms, Dick Higgins, George Segal, and others.
To re-invent this work in 2008, LACE invited artist Steve Roden to assemble a creative team, which includes Rae Shao-Lan Blum, Michael Ned Holte and Stephanie Smith. The team is joined by performers Simone Forti, Steve Irvin, Flora Wiegmann with Elonda Billera and Skylar Haskard creating key props and installations. Special guests will join the performance each night including Roy Dowell, Renee Petropoulos, Justin Lowman, Elizabeth Leister, Fran Siegel, Brad Eberhard, Mark Dutcher, Doug Harvey, Steve DeGroodt, David McDonald, and Martin Kersels.
This new vision of the work is grounded in the team’s intensive research and dialogue, based on Kaprow’s original notes and writings. “I’d like to be sure that Kaprow’s intentions and ideas surrounding the work are not lost in attempts to replicate a historical moment.” (Steve Roden)
Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts was timed to coincide with the exhibition Allan Kaprow—Art as Life, on view at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA through June 30, 2008, and organized by the Haus der Kunst Munich, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. The curatorial concept for this exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the recently deceased artist, and curators Stephanie Rosenthal (Munich) and Eva Meyer-Hermann (Eindhoven).
One aspect of this large-scale retrospective is the re-invention of many of Kaprow’s Happenings, which will take place at 29 local institutions throughout Southern California. Thanks to a generous grant from the Getty Foundation, MOCA has invited Los Angeles-area art schools, academic institutions, arts organizations, museums, and artist-run spaces to reinvent a diverse selection of Kaprow’s Happenings.
Happenings are coordinated by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and made possible by generous support from the Getty Foundation. Allan Kaprow—Art as Life is organized by the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Concept of the exhibition by Stephanie Rosenthal and Eva Meyer-Hermann. For a complete listing of all Happenings, visit MOCA
Special thanks to the Allan Kaprow Estate, Hauser & Wirth Zürich London, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.
With Anna Sew Hoy
House of Campari
The original version was a live performance/video, California Biennial, 2008 with K8 Hardy and Sew Hoy
Championdance (Felicia Ballos and Flora Wiegmann)
Flora Wiegmann and Felicia Ballos formed a collaboration called ChampionDance in 2003. Under the roof of Champion Fine Art, they embarked on a series of dance performances called The De-installation Series. This project consisted of nine monthly shows, each performed in the gallery space just after an exhibition was de-installed. The development and structure of each performance evolved directly out of a shared space with each exhibition. After a few weeks of rehearsals, they produced a single-night event that was the culmination of their relationship with the given show; the spatial placement of the dancers and the audience members reflected the recent group of artworks, just as traces of those artworks appeared within the movement of the dance. Each performance was accompanied by live music, with the exception of “For Your Pocket” for which the sound score was created by a collection of nine transistor radios that were gradually tuned to a common station.
Although the habit was to remove everything from the gallery immediately before the performance, in a few instances, the decision was made to keep certain works in the space and incorporate them into the piece, providing imagery, lighting, or sound. These important additions included Sylvie Fleury’s neon sign that read “Pleasures”, Alex Kwartler’s wall painting of fireworks (recently sanded and awaiting its disappearance under a fresh coat of white paint), Amy Granat’s scratch films, and a computer-generated oceanic projection created by Dan Torop.
Since then,
Ballos / Wiegmann has continued to make works for specifically for spaces like Le102 in Grenoble, France, beach in Miami for Frisbee (ArtBasel), and The Kitchen, Rental Gallery, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and Nicole Klagsbrun in New York City.
De-installation, Site specific work
With Felicia Ballos
