ANDREAS HANNES: Sway
Andreas Hannes is an artist who explores gravity and aerodynamic forces in his work. His skipping (huppelen) practice focuses on joyful engagement with travelling through space while emphasising the importance of persistence and effort to sustain oneself.
Where the body crosses space in the skipping practice, the space crosses the body in the warping practice. In this conceptual inversion, the body moves within a space already moving, revealing an aerodynamic environment. In a constantly changing and transitioning world, he is interested in developing practices of hope.
This is the basis of his solo piece Sway, titled on the eponymous type of movement—the energy and motion of tipping in and out of balance. This rhythmical and adventurous movement sends Andreas Hannes swerving through landscapes, Greek mythology, music, and invented histories by a constant and sensual re-configuration of his body and the space. As he sways, forms and references melt and transform as soon as they start to take shape. Through utilising techniques and materials from ballet, folk, hip-hop, and jazz, the role of the dancer is to revisit, suspend and reconfigure existing movement materials to energise, sense, and extract the potential for new stories and ways of moving. While there is already much to be said about the past and the present, Sway sways into the potentialities of the future.
#skipping #swaying #rejoicing #thinking the possibilities of the future
concept, choreography, performance: Andreas Hannes * music composition and mix: Gary Shepherd (Streamer Nymphonic Orchestra) * costumes: Philipp Schüller * light design and scenography: Paulina Prokop * technical construction: Wojciech Jackowski * artistic advice: Renée Copraij, Fernando Belfiore, Antonia Steffens * production: Michael Scerbo * produced and supported by Julidans Amsterdam, ICK Dans Amsterdam, Theater Rotterdam, DansBrabant, Korzo Den Haag, Small House Productions.
© Paulina Prokop, Maarten Nauw, Hermien Buyse
