... con tatto proved a beautifully crafted performance and your own commitment to developing it to complement our site meant it was the perfect way to bring to life our festival, which celebrates the urban and built environments ... The performance has left a long-lasting impression and was received with adulation by audiences here. I will not forget it easily.
... con tatto
2009
With … con tatto DA MOTUS! presents a gentle meeting with the audience, a research of empathy to enhance delicate corporal contact and to react to the increasing feeling of fear and suspicion spreading in urban area by a sensitive and playful approach.
8 dancers play with the architecture, with each other and also with the spectators. The show leads to amazing physical connections and astonishing positions, which show the beauty and emotion of being physically connected. Gradually the dancers start to approach and involve the audience and the passers-by. Tactfully they get in touch and respectfully involve them too. At the end the dancing grows to a merry ball in which the barrier between dancers and audience almost disappears to become a shared, spontaneous and joyful choreography.
Informations
idea and artistic direction
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly
choreography
Antonio Bühler, Brigitte Meuwly, in collaboration with the dancers
Dance
Alexis Jestin, Lionel Bègue, Vanessa Lopez, Tae Peter, Dominique Cardito, Brigitte Meuwly, Ismael Oiartzabal, Maelle Desclaux
music
costumes
coproduction
DA MOTUS!, Nuithonie-Fribourg in the frame of „RésiDanse fribourgeoise“, Festival de danse Scène Ouverte Neuchâtel, Internationales Strassentheater Festival Ludwigshafen
support
Department for Culture Canton Fribourg, Loterie Romande, Coriolis Fribourg, Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland, CORODIS, Municipality of Givisiez
Press
L. Mullings, organizer of London Festival of Architecture/Arts&Events Canary Wharf 2010
… and the magic takes place : those spectators, at first set, enter gradually into their dance … a touching metamorphosis … This performance was one of the highlights of the Contemporary Dance Festival Neuchâtel.
L’Express 13.07.2009
No urban furniture escapes from their pranks … everything gives cause for contact and poetry.
Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace 03.05.2010
Highly creative ... A wonderful, very sensitive encounter with the audience
S. Sahling, director Strassentheaterfestival Ludwigshafen 2009
Upcoming dates
| Date | Place | Festival |
|---|---|---|
| 02.06.2012 | Romania - Sibiu | Sibiu International Theatre Festival |
| 03.06.2012 | Romania - Sibiu | Sibiu International Theatre Festival |
| 13.07.2012 | United Kingdom - London | National Theatre - Watch This Space |
| 14.07.2012 | United Kingdom - London | National Theatre - Watch This Space (2x) |
| 20.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 21.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 22.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 23.07.2012 | Germany - München | Tollwood |
| 22.09.2012 | Netherlands - Almelo | KUNSTen op Straat |
Past dates
| Date | Place | Festival |
|---|---|---|
| 14.01.2012 | Portugal - Braga | Opening Day "2012 European Youth Capital" |
| 28.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO |
| 26.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO |
| 25.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Festival Internacional AL AIRE PURO |
| 25.08.2011 | Colombia - Bogotá | Colegio Helvetia |
| 26.06.2011 | Netherlands - Doetinchem | 18. Festival Buiten Gewoon |
| 25.06.2011 | Netherlands - Doetinchem | 18. Festival Buiten Gewoon |
| 12.06.2011 | Germany - Holzminden | 11. Strassentheater Festival |
| 11.06.2011 | Germany - Holzminden | 11. Strassentheater Festival |
| 30.04.2011 | Switzerland - Fribourg | Les Grand-Places en débat |
