passing / station
passing / station ist eine interdisziplinäre Performance aus zeitgenössischem Tanz und Musik, die für ein sich ständig transformierendes und heterogenes Publikum in einer Bahnhofshalle konzipiert wurde. Andrej Stepita und Miriam Budzakova thematisieren in ihrem Tanzduett verschiedene Facetten des Zusammenlebens in einer Welt, die von Diversität und dadurch entstehenden Barrieren und Konflikten geprägt ist. Der Wiener Musiker Hannes Schöggl spielt dazu eigens für die Performance komponierte Musik für Marimba und Percussion.
Hauptzweck von passing / station ist es, auf die künstlichen Ungleichheiten zwischen Menschen hinzuweisen, die durch verschiedene Faktoren hervorgerufen werden. Dies bedeutet, dass soziale, generationsbedingte, ethnische, ideologische, kulturelle oder religiöse Unterschiede sich direkt auf die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen und die Art der Kommunikation auswirken. Dies schafft automatisch Vorurteile und Konfliktsituationen. Der gleiche Wert eines jeden Menschen zeigt sich jedoch am deutlichsten in der physischen Form unseres menschlichen Körpers, unseren physiologischen Gesetzen und Bedürfnissen. Diese Aspekte wollen wir mit diesem Tanzduett zum Ausdruck bringen.
Wir haben beschlossen, die Performance für einen Bahnhofsraum zu gestalten, da sich dort Menschen aus verschiedensten Schichten versammeln und somit der größte Kontrast zwischen den betrachtenden Personen entsteht. Wir wollen Personen aus verschiedensten sozialen Gruppen erreichen, die keine regelmäßigen Zuschauer von künstlerischen Darbietungen sind und Menschen mit zeitgenössischer Kunst konfrontieren, der sie in ihrem Alltag nicht begegnen.
Hannes Schöggl – Marimba, Percussion, Komposition
Andrej Štepita – Tanz, Choreographie
Miriam Budzáková – Tanz, Choroegraphie
passing / station
passing / station is an interdisciplinary Performance of contemporary dance and music, which is created for a constantly transforming and diverse audience within a train station. Andrej Stepita and Miriam Budzakova theme in their dance-duet various aspects of living together in a world, shaped by diversity and it’s effected barriers and conflicts. Viennese percussionist and composer Hannes Schöggl is playing his own music for marimba and percussion.
With passing / station we want to adress artificial inequalities between people, that arise due to various factors. It means, that matters of social status, age, ethnics, ideologies, culture or religion directly effect our human relationships and the way we communicate. This automatically creates prejudice and conflict. The same worth of every human shows itself most obviously on the physical form of the human body, our physiological laws and needs. We want to express these aspect in our performance.
We decided to create this performance for a pblic train station, because almost nowhere else people with more diverse identities cross their ways and the biggest contrast between viewers will emerge. We want to reach people from diverse social backgrounds that are non-regular spectators of contemporary art.
Hannes Schöggl – marimba, percussion, composition
Andrej Štepita – dance, choreography
Miriam Budzáková – dance, choroegraphy
small room
by Marija Saveiko
Many people, a barefooted woman and a man inviting me inside the building. I have my shoes on. How did it happen – I am a spectator.
I am in a small room, here are two red couches. Door locked. I am dancing for the first time.
I was here yesterday in the evening. But I don’t recognize the place. Are all the monsters hidden? I am following. I don’t see anything but the dancers and the red couches from the room I once shared with my sister.
Could they both fit into that room? If only I knew what I was dancing that night. If only the younger me had known we all can dance barefooted at the railway stations.
And in the parks.
And at the beach.
And on my red couch.
And even on my sister’s red couch.
The dancers split. She went upstairs on an escalator, he went in a staircase. I followed her watching her feet becoming dirty with each step. I have my shoes on.
I am in the small room, here are two red couches. Door locked. I am dancing for the first time.
Again?
I am lying on the floor, the music is loud. I am breathing fast.
The dancers are moving slowly, gently. The lightness their presence creates reflects a strong connection between mind and body. We see insides become outsides. The dancers are clear. They are every-body and no-body at the same time.
I was nobody once. There – between two red couches. I only danced once…
The air between them is also clear. The monsters have no rights to appear by day. They have no rights to ruin my day dream. My dream. Their bodies are woven with the sounds, their identities disappeared. They are – dance.
I was dance that only night. Later I have met some people who had become dance too but I lost them. I lost me somewhere between the small room and a railway station in the East of Czech Republic.
Did I really find dance again here at the railway station?
Did I really find dance again here at the railway station?
This text was written as part of an international writing workshop entitled Alternative Formats, aimed at developing alternative ways of writing about dance. The workshop was a collaboration between Taneční aktuality and Performing Criticism Globally and took place during Move Fest Ostrava 2021, kindly supported by EEA Grants, and the resulting texts were written in response to productions at this festival. Marija Saveiko’s text small room responds to Andrej Štepita and Miriam Budzáková’s performance Passing / Station.
- 25.06.2021 – Bahnhof Wien Meidling
16:00 – 17:30 – 19:00 - 26.06.2021 – Wien Westbahnhof
11:00 – 12:30 – 14:00
Bezirk Meidling
