Saturday, 10th September | 21.45
LA PELANDA | SALA 2 | 1h

performance

Ivana Müller

Edges

within the frame of TransArte
national premiere
performance in English wih Italian subtitles

concept and choreography Ivana Müller
performers Antoine Cegarra, Hélène Iratchet, Julien Lacroix, Anne Lenglet, Bahar Temiz, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
text Ivana Müller in collaboration with Antoine Cegarra, Hélène Iratchet, Julien Lacroix, Anne Lenglet, Emmilou Rössling, Bahar Temiz, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logeriasassistant Emmilou Rössling
artistic advice Jonas Rutgeerts
lighting design Martin Kaffarnik
sound design Nils De Coster
thanks to Gilles Amalvi, Ant Hampton production ChloéSchmidt and Gerco de Vroeg
production I’M’COMPANY
coproduction Musée de la danse – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne (FR) / La Villette – Résidences d’artistes 2015, Paris (FR) / Ménagerie de Verre, Paris (FR) / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE) / BUDA Centre culturel, Courtrai (BE) / fabrik Potsdam, Potsdam (DE) / Pôle Sud, Centre de développement chorégraphique, Strasbourg (FR) / SZENE Salzburg supported by apap-advanced performing arts project and the European Union
with the support of Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) d’Ile-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication au titre de l’aide àla création / Adami (FR) / Fonds Transfabrik – French-German fund for the performing arts (DE/FR), and Ménagerie de Verre / Studiolab, Paris (FR)

www.ivanamuller.com

Edges is a group performance that explores the notions of ‘marginal’ and ‘central’, ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ and through this process enhances the reflection on the idea of ‘perspective’ and ‘point of view’. The place of theatre is one where viewpoints are formed constantly, both in the choices of what we make visible or invisible and in opinions, ideas, sensations that we possibly create/suggest with what we make visible. By giving a lot of ‘visibility’ to something or someone, we give it a certain sort of power and attention. By letting something being hardly visible we place it on the edges of interest… But even though we are maybe not actively looking at it, it is still there, it still exists and it still influences our ways of seeing or being. Putting something into ‘light’ or into ‘darkness’ is a movement that belongs both to the practice of theatre but also to the history of ideas.!
In Edges this reflection gets translated into a play that stages a group of ‘background artists’ at work. During the entire piece we don’t see the ‘main actors’ but follow movements, gestures and viewpoints of the ‘corps de figurants’ who are, in contrast to most of the contemporary pieces, here performed by professional performers. Edges proposes a journey through a landscape made of images, stories and sounds which continues to empower spectators’ gaze, creating a frame for imagining the visible and listening to the invisible.

BIOGRAPHY

Ivana Müller is a choreographer, artist and author of texts.
Through her choreographic and theatre work ( performances, installations, text works, video-lectures, audio pieces, guided tours and web-works )she re-thinks the politics of spectacle and spectacular, re-visits the place of imaginary and imagination, questions the notion of « participation », investigates the idea of value and its representation, and keeps on getting inspired by the relationship between performer and spectator.
Although she creates through various forms, theatre remains the principle context in which she develops and presents her work. Her pieces – among others How Heavy Are My Thoughts (2003), Under My Skin (2005), While We Were Holding It Together (2006), Playing Ensemble Again And Again (2008), Working Titles (2010), 60 Minutes of Opportunism (2010), Partituur (2011), In Common (2012), We are Still Watching  (2012-2015), Positions (2013), Edges  (2016) – have been produced and presented in some of the major theatre festivals and venues in Europe, USA and Asia , over the last 12 years.
Her work has been occasionally shown in visual art contexts (Venice Biennale 2015, among others).
In her practice she has collaborates and colleborated with artists and theoreticians such as Bojana Kunst, David Weber Krebs, Andrea Bozic, Jonas Rutgeerts, Jefta van Dinther, Bill Aitchison, Paz Rojo, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Christine de Smedt and many others.
In 2007 Müller received the Charlotte Koehler Prize from the Prins Bernhard Fund (NL) for her oeuvre, as well as the Impulse Festival & Goethe Institute Prize for her piece While We Were Holding It Together. That same year, the piece was also nominated for the Dutch VSCD prize for best performance of the year.
Next to her artistic practice, Ivana Müller curates artistic and discursive encounters and lectured/lectures as a guest lecturer/professor (at, amongst others, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, School For New Dance Development, Amsterdam, Institute For Applied Theatre Studies Giessen, Performance Studies – University of Hamburg etc.).
Müller studied Comparative literature and French at the University of Zagreb, Choreography & dance at the School for New Dance Development  in Amsterdam and Fine Arts at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
From 2004 till 2009 she was a founding member of artistic collaborative platform LISA (Amsterdam).
Ivana Müller was born in Zagreb and grew up in Croatia and in Amsterdam. She lives in Paris and works internationally.