The initial idea to use the figure of Irma Vep for fictionautic investigations comes from the work of Jack Hauser

have a look: MUSIDORA 2009 as part of SCHLAFEN IN WIEN, Hotel Fürstenhof 48 Std Permanet Hotel Performance Nov.'09
have a look: Irma Vep als Blade Runner as part of LIVE - a fictionautic Intervention


TRIBUTE TO IRMA VEP - a dance

have a look : Tribute to Irma Vep (part one)
have a look : Tribute to Irma Vep (part two)

TRIBUTE TO IRMA VEP – a dance is a homage to the figure of Irma Vep [1], centering around a movement sequence.
Irma Vep embodies the irrational and the necessity of a poetry which intervenes, changes and transforms in connection with dance – a practice following rules of its own.

The sequence deals with movement as trance, as a possibility of transformation and the dissolution of identity. Improvisations with music by the North African Sufi musicians Joujouka were used to create a sequence of positions blending into each other, meditation miniatures – little negotiations with the phenomenon of the material – which lead to peculiar, even grotesque leaps.

TRIBUTE TO IRMA VEP – a dance is an intervention which never can take place in a previously existing stage situation. The space is constructed, constituted and then taken over by means of movement. A sound document from a session with the musician Martin Siewert and recordings by the Master Musicians of Joujouka as well as field recordings inserted by Jack Hauser permeate the space. For: that which was secluded by a rite can be returned to the profane sphere by another rite.

Concept and Choreografy: Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer
Dance: Sabina Holzer
Sound: Martin Siewert, Jack Hauser

Supported by: Stadt Wien/Kultur, bmu:kk & Tanzquartier Wien
Duration: ca. 20min

TRIBUTE TO IRMA VEP - a dance was developed as a part of LIVE - a fictionautic Intervention, which took the aspect of traveling as a basic notion to rehearse and perform. It was realized during a journey to Morocco and the Souh of Spain by Jack Hauser and Sabina Holzer 2006.
TRIBUTE TO IRMA VEP -a dance was shown in "Annäherunng an die Tür aus der Wohnung der Miryam van Doren" von Jack Hauser at machfeld Vienna ('08)
"LIVE - a fictionautic Intervention": WUK Vienna ('07), Lentos Museum für Modern Art ('07), Tanzquartier Wien, factory season ('06)



Fotos: David Bergé

[1] IRMA VEP: She was the figure of the fantastic and sinister, a mysterious shadow; - the female pendant to Fantômas: Irma Vep performed by Musidora. She appeared the first time in 1914 in the crime series of Louis Feuillades "Les Vampires". As "femme nouvelle" she was tracking her specific line throughout the different definitions of class and gender.
She was called "the 10th muse" by the Surrealists and till today Irma Vep has stayed a transformable complex phenomena, leading her own live as inspiration for various pulp-fiction heros.
The essence of (black) mummery, disguise, masquerade pervades our socio-political everyday life in a fascinating and disquieting way.

Fotos: David Bergé


RELATED PERFORMANCES

COUP - In the frame of "DIE HOFBURG TANZT" curated by TQW / Sigrid Gareis und Chris Haring
An intervention by Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Inge Kaindlstorfer (June '09)

have a look: C O U P as part of „DIE HOFBURG TANZT" curated by Sigrid Gareis und Chris Haring Tanzquartier Wien, June '09

MITOSE
Performative Installation
Concept and performance: elffriede (drawings), Sabina Holzer (dance) Sabine Maier (flashes)
at: "OKTOPUS" exibithion & symposium at the Private Univercity Sigmund Freud Vienna (June '09);
Crossbreeds WUK Vienna (Jan.'09)

WUK_INVITES - Spurensuche: Code Irma Vep ('08)
Sabina Holzer invites Thomas Ballhausen
Text and Performance: Thomas Ballhausen, Sabina Holzer
Video: Jack Hauser

Irma Vep ('07)
Strobel Richterinnen Tagung
Concept and Performance: Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer

Heimliches Halleluija ('07)
Idea: Jack Hauser
Jack Hauser plays Fantomas, Sabina Holzer plays Irma Vep,
Anton Tichawa plays guitarre
Rent an angel / Tanzquartier Wien

"Qui? Quoi? Quand? Où?" at "Stumme Kuratierung" ('07)
im Rahmen von "exchange" Tanzquartier Wien
Concept and Choreografy: Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer