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Ivana Müller

WHILE WE WERE HOLDING IT TOGETHER

18 May 2009 | Monday 20:30
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Duration: 67'

Full: 18 TL Discount: 12 TL

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Ivana Müller is back in iDANS, this year again with a witty work that invites our imagination to dance! While We Were Holding It Together creates a flow of images in becoming, always changing, sometimes lingering. Is this a rock band on tour? A depiction of a picnic in a forest? A hotel room in Bangkok? Following a series of enigmatic tableaux vivants, we imagine and reinvent the relationalities of the bodies on stage, where stillness incessantly reveals multiple times and narratives.

Ivana Müller makes investigative and uncompromising theatre, scrutinizing many concepts and ideas that are usually taken for granted. In While We Were Holding It Together, a tribute to the power of the imagination, she subjects notions such as body, mind and the relationship between the two to a closer inspection. This results in a poetic, humoristic and philosophical production that draws the audience into Müller's personal crystal clear logic. [...] While We Were Holding It Together is a game of "guess what this is" quadrupled: the text keeps shedding a different light on the image and compels the audience to keep embracing a different interpretation of the scene. - Fleur Bokhoven

Concept, direction: Ivana Müller | Performance*: Katja Dreyer/Sarah van Lamsweerde, Pere Faura/Ricardo Santana, Karen Røise Kielland/ Hester van Hasselt, Stefan Rokebrand/Jobst Schnibbe, Jefta van Dinther/Bill Aitchison | Text: Ivana Müller, Bill Aitchison, Katja Dreyer, Pere Faura, Karen Røise Kielland, Stefan Rokebrand, Jefta Dinther | Artistic advice, text: Bill Aitchison | Sound design: Steve Heather | Light design & technics: Martin Kaffarnik | Production: LISA & IM company | Co-production: Sophiensaele Berlin, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Dubbelspel (30CC and STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven).This project is financially supported by the Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten and the Mondriaan Stichting

Ivana Müller (1972, Zagreb) studied literature in Zagreb, dance and choreography in Amsterdam and fine arts in Berlin. Ivana Müller is living and working in Amsterdam and Paris. She is a performance artist/choreographer/theatre director. In her artistic work she develops defined performative concepts that use twists in perception or logic as a starting point, creating pieces that are poetic and scientific, philosophical and humorous, intimate and political at the same time. In her recent work she explores notions of self-invention and story-telling, often working on the borders between fiction and reality. Most of her work is made for theatres, although she also creates installations for galleries and museums or publishes texts. Other pieces by Ivana Müller: How Heavy Are My Thoughts (2003, Mousontorum Frankfurt/plateaux festival and Gasthuis Theater Amsterdam), (2005, LISA, Productiehuis Rotterdam, STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven en Monty Antwerpen), Under My SkinPlaying Ensemble Again And Again (2008, LISA, STUK Kunstencetrum Leuven, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg, (NL) and Kampnagel Hamburg (D)