projects
Eat 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 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 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…
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…
Read More9 drawings
creation- Melanie Maar performance- Melanie Maar, Edith Greutmann December 12th, 2015, Brooklyn Studios for Dance
Read MoreMasters of Ceremony
members: Rachel BernsenAbraham Gomez-DelgadoMelanie MaarTaylor Ho Bynum MoC is a transdisciplinary performance collective of artists exploring ritual in composition since 2012. The group practices spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography in the moment, continuously seeking a collective consciousness as well as individual presence. They enjoy to conduct ceremonies of…
Read MoreNumerous Sensing
a collaboration with sound artists Christian Schröder performed by Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder image by Carolina Sánchez Numerous Sensing plays with recognizing the synchronization and separation of the internal and external. Numbers and rhythms.Of self and space, movement and sound, bodies and material, seeing and being, of actual and mystical, nature and wire, of…
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