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Willi
Dorner
Bodies in Urban Spaces
Sunday, September 26, 2010
at Sunrise, 6:46am
Monday, September 27, 2010
at Sunset, 5:46pm
Sites throughout Lower Manhattan
Co-presented with Dancing
in the Streets
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“Bodies
in Urban Spaces, besides being a wonder of organization
and stamina, was a model of public art: free, fun, and
transformative.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
At sunrise and sunset, audiences will be led by performers
through the streets around Wall Street. As they walk along
narrow cobblestone streets, they will encounter dancers transforming
themselves into “human sculptures” that extend
seamlessly into the surrounding architecture. The performance
trail has been determined by Willi Dorner, the work’s
Vienna-based choreographer, with the goal of intensifying
the experience of the neighborhood, its history, its present,
and the relationship of urban design to the human form.
Willi Dorner Bio
Willi Dorner is a choreographer, curator, and video artist
who combines disciplines to subvert and question our perception
of movement and dance. He has been active as a choreographer
in Vienna since the late 1980s and is regarded as one of
the most important choreographers working in Europe today.
His pieces have appeared in festivals and venues in Europe,
Africa, North, and South America and China. His recent
work, Bodies in Urban Spaces was created in France
and has since toured in Austria, England, France, Norway,
Sweden, Finland, and the US. He has also worked as a guest
choreographer for the Vienna State Opera Ballet, the Dance
Theatre Ireland in Dublin, and the Scottish Dance Theatre.
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Free and open
to the public
Venue
Sites throughout
Lower Manhattan
Meeting Point
Central Plaza
of Coenties Slip Park
at Pearl Street,
Between Broad Street
and Hanover Square
Subway
4, 5 to Bowling Green
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Willi Dorner: Bodies