Perfect Performance 2009

(c) David Baltzer

(c)  Nina Thielicke

Rodrigo Garcìa (es)

Rodrigo Garcìa is one of the most prominent playwrights on the national and international scene. His way of viewing theatre led him to create his own artistic formula, far from the more conventional staging. Originally from Argentina but living in Spain, Rodrigo Garcìa is the author of some of the most representative titles on the alternative scene, all of them produced by his own theatre troupe, La Carnicería Teatro. Conocer Gente, comer mierda (Meet People, Eat Shit)(1999), Haberos quedado en casa, capullos (You Should Have Stayed at Home Idiots)(2000), Aftersun (2001) and Compré una pala en Ikea para cavar mi tumba (I Bought a Shovel in Ikea to Dig My Grave)(2002) are good samples of this theatre director’s line of work. 2008 Rodrigo Garcia was awarded the Prix Europe Nouvelles Réalités Théâtrales. Aproximación a la idea de desconfianza (Approaching the idea of distrust) is his first appearance in Sweden.

(c) Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Aproximación a la idea de desconfianza

1. Fri 23 October 2009 | 20.30-21.30 | Dansens hus| Buy ticket
   

Eva Meyer-Keller (de)

Meyer-Keller mainly works on performances and has been showing her work throughout Europe and America.
Before she graduated from the School for New Dance Develop ment (SNDO) in Amster dam she studied photography and visual art in Berlin and London.
Meyer-Keller’s work is versatile. She often works on several projects at the same time, makes performances, organizes festivals/events, develops projects together with other people and makes video works. She has also worked for projects of other artists and groups such as Baktruppen, Jérôme Bel, Christine De Smedt (les Ballets C de la B).
We present Schattenspiele were you are invited to play a game and Good Hands—a performance contemplation on party tricks or boyish pranks.

(c) Rhonda Repotente

Schattenspiele

1. Fri 23 October 2009 | 18.00-20.00 | Dansens Hus | Buy ticket

(c) Jan van de Vocht

Good Hands

1. Sat 24 October 2009 | 20.00-21.00 | Dansens Hus | Buy ticket

Nature Theater of Oklahoma (us)

Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a New York-based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. The ensemble strives to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room. Using ready-made materials, found space, overheard speech, observed gesture, and through extreme formal manipulation and superhuman effort, they seek to effect a shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of performance and into the world in which we live. With No Dice they blew the international theater market away. They have been touring several productions since. Next premier will be in Burgtheater in Vienna.

(c) Peter Nigrini

No Dice

1. Wed  28 Oct 2009 | 19.00-23.00 | Teaterhögskolan | Buy ticket
   
2. Thu 29 Oct 2009 | 19.00-23.00 | Teaterhögskolan | Buy ticket
3. Fri  30 Oct 2009  | 19.00-23.00 | Teaterhögskolan | Buy ticket

PME-ART (ca)

PME-ART from Canada is a collective founded by Jacob Wren and Sylvie Lachance. Jacob Wren is one of the international critical theaters most important personalities. Their artistic statement:
Through performances, installation, public process and theoretical and practical research, interdisciplinary group PME-ART confronts its contemporary practice via local, national and international artistic collaborations. Combining creation, exploration, critical reflection, dissemination and casual yet significant interactions with various publics, the work is an ongoing process of questioning the world, of finding the courage to say things about the current predicament that are direct and complex, of interrogating the performance situation.
We present their new highly acclaimed piece: Hospitality 3—Individualism was a mistake with the three artists Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello and Jacob Wren.

(c) Sylvain Baumann

Hospitality 3 - Individualism was a mistake

1. Thu 29 Oct 2009 | 18.00-19.30 | Teaterhögskolan | Buy ticket
   
2. Fri  30 Oct 2009  | 18.00-19.30 | Teaterhögskolan | Buy ticket
3. Sat  31 Oct 2009   | 17.00-18.30 | Teaterhögskolan | Buy ticket
   

Heine Røsdal Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki (be/no)

Heine Røsdal Avdal is a recurring guest at Perfect Performance and the festival TUPP in Uppsala. Educated in dance he now produces installations and performances that emphasize the meeting between the spectator and the performance. You don’t just see a spectacle—you enter a performance, often with a hidden surprise. In his and Yukiko Shinozaki new site-specific work Field Works they use spaces not meant for artistic productions, such as office spaces or like in this pre-premier—a hotel room. Field Works is produced by deepblue and Heine Røsdal Avdal.

(c) Heine R. Avdal

Field Works

1. 27-30 Oct 2009 | 15:00-21 | Clarion Hotel Sthlm| Buy ticket
   
2. 31 October 2008|12:00-18 | Clarion Hotel Sthlm| Buy ticket
   

Rosas; Tim Etchells & Fumiyo Ikeda (be/uk)

In pieces is the collaboration between Fumiyo Ikeda, who’s been part of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dance company Rosas for over 25 years, and British playwright and director Tim Etchells, known for his work for performance group Forced Entertainment.
In in pieces you see and hear Ikeda drawing up lists of memories. Most of the time she just labels them. You don’t get the actual memory, but the label she’s put on to stock it. It’s at the same time an exploration of the links between the performer and the spectator. Since many of her labels trigger memories in the minds of those who are watching.

(c) Herman Sorgeloos

in pieces

1. Fri 30 Oct 2009 | 17.00-18.30 | c/o Stockholms stadsteater | Buy ticket
   
2. Sat 31 Oct 2009 | 17.00-18.30 | c/o Stockholms stadsteater  | Buy ticket
   

Fanny & Alexander (it)

Fanny & Alexander is a well-renowned theater company from Ravenna, Italy. The core of the group consits of the director Luigi de Angelis and the actor/dramaturge Chiara Lagani. Often in their working method they dive into a theme that they spin their performances around. Emerald City and North are both a part of the cycle of OZ. A nine performance series based on the motion picture The Amazing Wizard of OZ (with Judy Garland from 1939).

Emerald City

1. Fri  30 Oct 2009 | 19.00-20.15 | Dramatiska institutet| Buy ticket
   
2. Sat  31 Oct 2009  | 19.00-20.15 | Dramatiska institutet| Buy ticket

(c) Enrico Fedrigoli

Superamas (at)

The group Superamas was founded 1999 and has performed virtually everywhere with their spectacular trilogy BIG—on capitalism, show-biz and the socially accepted image of happiness. Hated and loved. Superamas create controversial performances, cool, arty, glossy and political. Their tool is shallowness. With BIG, 3rd episode (happy/end) they conclude a theatrical series filled with cynical men and beautiful women.

(c) Wolfgang Kirchner

BIG, 3rd episode

(happy/end)

1. Sat 25 Oct 2009 | 18.00-19.30 | c/o Stockholms stadsteater | Buy ticket
   
2. Mon 26 Oct 2009|18.00-19.30 | c/o Stockholms stadsteater | Buy ticket
   

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Seminars

The theme »theater« will be the discussed in three seminars. All in English.

You: the Public, the Audience
and the Spectator: in contemporary performing arts the use of, and the ideologies behind the words Audience, Public and Spectator are constantly under reinvestigation. Artists work on different strategies to deal with—you.

c/o Stockholms stadsteater (Drottninggatan 34)
25/10 13.00

The Institution: the Death of Creativity?
most of us are aware that there is a myth: if you work in a big institution it’s the same thing as giving up… art, creativity and spontaneity. But are there strategies to avoid the instrumental killing of creativity in repertoire theaters?

Clarion Hotel Stockholm (Ringvägen 98)
27/10 18.00

The Autonomous Actor
in performance art the artist has total control over his/her expression. They decide the entire why, when and how. In theater it’s most of the time the director that decides.

Teaterhögskolan (Valhallavägen 193)
28/10 16.30

Seminars & performances in english

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Perfect Bar

This is where you can hang out after the performances and seminars. We bring you great company, music and Perfect happenings. Tuesday – Thursday you will also be taken care of by Poste Restante. Clarion Hotel Stockholm 24–30/ 10, Sunday – Thursday 5 pm – 1 am, Friday – Saturday 5 pm – 3 am.

Poste Restante (Linn Hilda Lamberg and Stefan Åkesson) works situation specific, always with the personal experience of the spectator as a focal point. 27-29/10 9 pm-12 am

Bed In is one of Yoko Onos most well-known performances took place in a hotel room in Amsterdam together with John Lennon. They stayed in bed for one week to promote world peace. The year was 1969. We celebrate this with an homage signed Daniel Andersson and Andrea Csaszni Rygh. 29th of October The World March for Peace and Nonviolence reach Stockholm and there will be a collective Bed In for Peace at Clarion Hotel Stockholm.

(c) Jonas Jörneberg

Follow Daniel and Andrea and their Bed in here.

24–30/ 12 pm – 12 am.

Clarion Hotel Stockholm (Ringvägen 98) 24–30/10
Perfect Bar: Sun–Thur 17.00–01.00, Fri–Sat 17.00–03.00
Bed In For Peace: 12.00–00.00

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The Breakfast project

A warm welcome to a series of breakfasts at café Louie Louie with invited guests from the festival.
The Breakfast Project is an opportunity to get together, talk and rummage in the performing arts; how is it produced, for what reasons and through which conditions. The hosts Louise Höjer and Johan Telander want, together with you and their guests, to converse possible and impossible projects into being.

Café Louie Louie (Bondegatan 13) 24–31/10
Monday - Friday 9.30–10.30 am
Saturday– Sunday 11.00 – 12.00 noon

In english

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Perfect Performance – Stockholm’s International Live Art Festival

23-31 October 2009

Dansens Hus, c/o Stockholms stadsteatern, Kulturhuset, Dramatiska institutet and Teaterhögskolan

During nine days, Stockholm will be hosting some of Europe’s most talked about performances. This year’s festival has theatre as theme. What is theatre today? Can we regard dance, theatre and live art as separate genres? Perfect Performance has invited contemporary artists that, most respectfully, do not give a shit about what category they are placed in.

Perfect Performance is proud to present a festival program that . The line-up features well-reputed names like Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a cellar group from New York that hit Europe’s theatres like a bomb, and Eva Meyer Keller, master of radical who turns shadowplay and party tricks into fine art. and theatre innovator Tim Etchells,Rodrigo García with his brutal stage poetry and Gob Squad who’ll bring us along into Andy Warhol’s world of pop art will also be performing.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma - No Dice (New York)

Eva Meyer-Keller - Schattenspiele & Good Hands (Berlin)

Rodrigo Garcìa - Aproximación a la idea de desconfianza (Madrid)

Rosas/Tim Etchells/Fumiyo Ikeda - In Pieces (Sheffield/Brussels)

Gob Squad - Gob Squad’s Kitchen & Who Are You Wearing? (Nottingham/Berlin)

Heine R. Avdal & deepblue - Field Works (Bryssel/Oslo)

Fanny och Alexander - North & Emerald City (Ravenna)

Superamas - BIG third episode, happy/end (Vienna)

PME-ART - Hospitality 3 - Individualism was a mistake (Montreal)

Tickets and festival passes go on sale June 16th.

Perfect Performance works to introduce international live art to the Swedish audience. We want to inspire conversation and reflection about the state of Swedish live art through workshops, seminaries and festivals. This is our fourth and biggest festival, and is brought to you in cooperation with Dansens Hus, c/o Stockholms stadsteater, Kulturhuset, Dramatiska Institutet, Teaterhögskolan and Clarion hotel Sthlm.

Perfect Performance’s artistic director is named Danjel Andersson. The festival is realized with support from Stiftelsen Framtidens Kultur, Statens Kulturråd, Stockholms Stad & Goethe Institute.

* With reservation for changes