Jenny Beyer

TABLEAU DOUBLÉ

Sayaka and Jenny are walking through the dessert, they are very thirsty. Jenny kills Sayaka then she becomes Sayaka’s dog

Considering the basic condition of the performer – one formed by the movement in the very same moment that s/he forms the movement – Jenny Beyer begins developing her work  at the threshold between choreography and dance, between image and movement. In Tableau Doublé, she feeds this interest with a wide range of images taken from various historical, cultural and aesthec contexts, which are processed by two performers to into a living collage of poses, gestures and movements.

Tableau Doublé modifies the rules of the old parlour game: "Tableau Vivants", in which paintings are re-enacted by actors for the spectator to decode and recognize. Using numerous pictures, photos and film sequences as source material, the smallest movements of the two dancers' bodies create new images, and the moment of decoding is withheld.
On the diamond shaped stage, in interplay with the electro-acustic sounds of composer Jetzmann, a choreography evolves that is playful and fluent, stringent and unpredictable. Images transformed into bare form confront the spectator with his/her own imagination.

premiere: 6 Dec 2007 at Kampnagel Hamburg
8 and 9 Dec 2007

concept/choreography: Jenny Beyer
dance: Sayaka Kaiwa, Jenny Beyer
music: Jetzmann
costume: Anna Wübber
artistic advice: Marcus Droß, Nik Haffner, Ben Pointeker
marimba: Johann Popp

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Jenny Beyer studied at the Hamburg Ballet School and the Rotterdamse Dansacademie. She has worked with choreographers Jaakko Toivonen/ Company Koorts, Antje Pfundtner and others. Since 2003 she is producing and performing regularly own work including cooperations with the sound artist Epueblodechina and composer Jetzmann. For Dansateliers Rotterdam she realized 2005 the duet „Konkubinat“ and 2006 „Home Tapes“. 2006 she received a stipend from danceWEB in Vienna. In 2007 she was choreographer in residence at K3- Zentrum für Choreographie/ Tanzplan Hamburg.
Jenny Beyer is a member of Sweet and Tender Collaborations. www.sweetandtender.org

Thanks to Sweet and Tender Collaborations, Performing Arts Forum and Association SKITe.

Tableau Doublé  is a production of the residency program of K3- Zentrum fuer Choreographie / Tanzplan Hamburg with the support of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Hamburg Department of Culture in cooperation with Kampnagel Hamburg. With the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union, within the frame of Enhanced danceWEB Europe, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Alfred Toepfler Stiftung.