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

 

 
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