Posts by Melanie Maar
Bleeders
What if that feeling of deep sadness and superficial ‘look at me one more second and I’ll scratch you’ feeling right before my bleeding is not really about sadness, or rage, but rather about downward flow and heat? Downward flow like water releasing from a seemingly clam lake into a loud waterfall. Like a tear…
Read MoreEat me Cosmos
EAT ME COSMOS September 23 + 2420.00Reaktor Wien TICKETS REAKTOR23rd or 24th Swallowing space and time, this durational performance swings dangerously close to its surround in simultaneously evoking theatrical perception and uneventful meditative drama. In it, object, sound, light and motion churn in and spit out a single performer’s sustained effort to maintain the center of everything…
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
GENERATIONS 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…
Read MoreLine Death Dance Book
check out and buy at ENTKUNSTUNG : https://entkunstung.com/shop A book on the process of a ceremonial ritual to enliven the new Chocolate Factory Theater in NYC Queens in 2022. Two performances Spaces and Tones | Being in Concrete Light were part of this endeavour. This Book is edited and created by ENTKUNSTUNG, Laurel Atwell and…
Read MoreApokaluptein Sentia
is a performance/short film/live stream. Live at Judson Church NYC. 2021. A film collage of recorded and live footage. The performance by a dancer and two musicians, as well as pre recorded images were simultaneously streamed online and experienced by a small live audience at Judson Memorial Church during the height of the pandemic closures.…
Read MoreDoors 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 a 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 about…
Read MoreDämmerung
DÄMMERUNG ‘We are drawing on connections between aesthetics of Heavy Metal, Animalism, Folklore Mythology and a strong drive for insistence in repetitive patterns in sound and movement in order to explore a morphing of realms of perception.’ process performances:April 2015, Austrian Cultural Forum NYJune 2015 National University Mexico City credits:creation, choreography and performance : Melanie…
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