Experiencing Time
Experiencing Time is a permanently changing space of experience in which an interplay of dance, live audio play and video art leads into a contrast experience of the normalized understanding of time.
In the center are the questions of the individual perception of time, of after times in the in-between, acceleration and forms of standstill.
Premiere: 24. & 25.09. 2021 as part of the DANCING ABOUT Festival
Venue: VILLA WIGMAN, Dresden
experiencing time Passing
Every person experiences time differently again and again. You could say that we carry different temporalities within us. When do I have time? Can one possess time at all? And when does time stand still?
As a listening piece for walking, experiencing time PASSING invites you to consider different ways of feeling time. The audience itself decides about the route and speed of its own walk. Each participant also decides when and where to linger.
experiencing time PASSING is permanently available online and has already been presented at the Zentralwerk Dresden and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden and at other venues.
Haben Sie Zeit? (Do you have time?)
During the first Corona-lockdown Barbara Lubich and Anna Till devoted a research residency from March to June 2020 to the phenomenon of time and explored the discrepancy between precise time measurement and subjective perception of time from the perspective of film and dance, moving image and movement. How does the experience of a boat trip change the perception of time? How do people describe their perception of time? What role does time play in the work processes on a ship – which Foucault calls a heterotopia, i.e. an image of society that functions according to its own rules? On these questions, the artists conducted conversations with employees of the Sächsische Dampfschifffahrt and observed the unusual standstill on the ships and on the riverbank.
Video on vimeo
Abbild und Körper
Abbild und Körper (Image and Body) is a work that ranges between performance and photography. More precisely, the piece is based on a photograph of Mary Wigman’s “Summer Dance” from 1929, taken by photographer Charlotte Rudolph and chosen by Barbara Lubich and Anna Till as the motif for their photographic reconstruction. From which movement did the picture originate? How was the light set, the detail determined, the moment captured? By tracing the moment of photography, Till and Lubich approach the collaborative working methods of Charlotte Rudolph and Mary Wigman, and at the same time remember the photographer who – in contrast to the world-famous Mary Wigman – fell into oblivion and died in poverty.
Premiere: 22.09.2018; during a public bus tour with several stops in Dresden
http://annatill.de/projects/abbild-und-korper-interventionen-zu-mary-wigman
http://www.barbara-lubich.net/?portfolio=abbild-und-koerper
parallel situation
In “parallel situation” dance and photography meet in real time. In a performative dialogue, Barbara Lubich and Anna Till negotiate the power of images. The stage transforms into image surfaces and movement becomes the motif. The photographs are taken at the moment of the performance and open up unusual perspectives and details: moments of maximum body tension, bizarre image details or the playful interplay between sharpness and blurriness are projected directly into the present.
“parallel Situation” is about the creation of images, about the atmosphere they contain. Is a photo only a surface, an object or an imagined, a narrated image? And what role does what once took place?
premiere | Runde Ecke, riesa efau Dresden (GER), 14./15.07.2017
shows | HELLERAU – EZK Dresden (GER), 09/10.12.2017
parallel situation_digital | LOFFT-DAS THEATER Leipzig (GER), 21.01.2021 – in the frame of „Tanz in Bildern – Plurale Konstellationen der Fotografie“ – Virtuelle Videokonferenz am Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig
Link to credits on Anna´s page
UP
The video installation UP deals with the intense perception of movement. The visitors of the walk-in installation become part of a fierce and at the same time tender encounter of two dancers – Anna Till and Johanna Roggan. The viewers are confronted with the force and intimacy of physical encounters and are thus made aware of the perception of their own bodies.
UP is a collaboration between Barbara Lubich, Johanna Roggan and Anna Till.
Premiere: 11-19.12.2015, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden
Link to credits on Barbara´s page
Schritt für Schnitt
The project Schritt für Schnitt – Tanz und Film (Step by Cut – Dance and Film) was developed by Till and Lubich for school classes in grades 8 to 12. In a practice-oriented workshop, basic techniques were taught for finding one’s own movement sequences and realizing them on film. After a warm-up and an introduction to camera technology and design options, small groups worked on short movement sequences and experimented with different ways of filming them. In a condensed form, the project conveys the first basics of both cinematic and dance means of expression.
Implementation: October 2013 – July 2014 – in collaboration with the foundation Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
