Dolly and Me
2008
Dolly and Me
2008
CIE. WILLI DORNER (A)
Dolly and me
CO-PRODUCTION (PREMIÈRE)
Thur. 11 Dec. to Sat. 13 Dec. 20.30
Concept and choreography: Willi Dorner
dance and choreography: Satu Herrala, Michael O’Connor
music: Heinz Ditsch
set: Katharina Heistinger
costumes: Jakob Lena Knebel
lighting designer: Klaus Rink
video: Billy Roisz, Willi Dorner
production management: Eva Straka
photos: Lisa Rastl
Dolly and me, the new production by the internationally famous Viennese choreographer Willi Dorner, plays with the equally timelessly classical as well as currently highly charged motif of the doppelgänger: in 1996 the first cloned sheep was christened "Dolly", an allusion to the enormous artificial bust of the US country music singer Dolly Parton. This was photographed in 1985 by the pop-art pope Andy Warhol with his Polaroid camera. Warhol’s confrontation with the problem of original and copy, his transfer to the film and music world with their icons and copies, also inspired Dorner in his intelligent new staging. The focus is on the social appropriation of appearance and the behaviour of the mass-media starts who nowadays decisively influence our everyday reality. The doppelgänger in Dolly and me appears as a variable patchwork creation, as a "media made" figure. Washed in all the waters of the media society and the entertainment industry, he projects himself in pictorial stories and undergoes a metamorphosis delirium in video clips.
Production: Cie. Willi Dorner Co-production: Tanzquartier Wien
With the support of the City of Vienna and bm:ukk