Posts by Melanie Maar
Eat me Cosmos
A collaboration with sound artist Christian Schröder on endurance, duration, transcendence and perception. Performed in two parts – outdoors with 3 performers and on stage as a solo/duett- in Vienna in 2026. The project is partly funded by the City of Vienna/ Stadt Wien Kultur.
Read MoreSisters – scenes of a shower
‘She just doesn’t want to shower, basically never. Its been two weeks already’, says Patrick her care taker. ‘I’ll try before she goes to bed, I waited to wash my hair, maybe its gonna work again’, I replied. How come little kids and the elderly often practice shower refusal, while kitty washing seems all right?…
Read MoreUnresisted Dreaming
Night. A white room in a house I do not know. I am lying in an open shipping transport box that fits my body in exact measure. Light wood, simple and coffin like. The bottom is covered with soft, pillowish dark blue material. I feel comfortable, yet I am aware that the situation is dangerous.…
Read MoreGenerations
is a two part performance and film installation project by Melanie Maar and Lindsay Packer. The first performance took place at Center for Performance Research Brooklyn in May 2023 and later at Bennington College VT. The European premiere was presented at Volkstheater/ Dunkelkammer, through IMpulsTanz Festival 2024. ‘Generations’ refers to the reverberation of image from…
Read MoreLine Death Dance Book
Apokaluptein Sentia
Doors to the Dead
The last time I saw my father alive was this summer, a few months after he died. I am lying in a cool, dark sauna room inside a small wooden house in the mountains. My two friends are in the loft right above, sleep watching over my mushroom induced journey below. First I am surrounded…
Read MoreLine Death Dance
Line Death Dance is an ongoing performance and publishing project self-reminding, celebrating and sharing non-linearity and inter-relatedness of its creative processes. Initially the project served to re-group my relationship to dance and performance in the personal, collective and public realms. Desire grew to involve a diversity of mutual voices into a material and immaterial dialogue…
Read MoreDämmerung
creation, choreography and performance – Melanie Maarcreaton, sound and performance – Kenta Nagai process performances-April 2015, Austrian Cultural Forum NYJune 2015 National University Mexico City ‘We are drawing on connections between aesthetics of Heavy Metal, Animalism, Folklore Mythology and a strong drive…
Read MoreOur Other
choreography and composition – Melanie Maarcreated and performed – Laurel Atwell, Marilyn Maywald and Melanie Maarcreated by lighting designer – Carrie Wood and Maaradditional live sound compositions – Abraham Gomez-Delgadocostumes – Melanie Maar PremiereOctober 17-19/ 2013, Danspace Project NYC ‘At first glance, Melanie Maar’s dances are subtle creations, but by the final blackout, it’s hard…
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