After Michael O’Connor’s previous work, TERTIARY, was nominated for the prestigious Prix d’Jardin award in the 8:tension series at ImpulsTanz festival this summer, he now premieres his newest exploration at Mo.ë. As one of the few students involved in the Masters of Choreography program in Amsterdam, O’Connor steps away from the conventional theatre and explores the use of metaphor in a surreal duet with Viennese dancer Karin Pauer. This performance is the latest step in his interest to combine theories of cognitive science and practices of performance.
What is the quality of your thought? What is the rope-ness of a rope?Moving Around X, is a performance event focusing on a psycho-geography of our poetic understandings. The space becomes a virtual metaphorical landscape and its possible to see our language in action. Thoughts run slowly between my legs. Time parts my lips and presses on my tongue. Love is a movement with no smell.
X Is not the unknown. Instead it is a known subject matter that is constantly shifting and changing, presenting itself in different forms. Austrian dancer Karin Pauer works again with Viennese based choreographer Michael O’Connor, in a surreal duet that guides the audience to new realities by reshaping metaphor. If we had different bodies, we would have different thoughts.
Concept: Michael O’Connor
Choreography / Performance: Michael O’Connor, Karin Pauer
Music: Alexander Kasses
Stage Design: Alexander Jackson Wyatt
Dramaturgical Advice: Guy Cools
Production Assistance: Eva Jankowsky
Production: A waiting dog
Support: Kultur Wien MA7, ImpulsTanz, AMCH Theatre School
