Don’t touch
a dance-installation from Anna Konjetzky with photos by Alvin Booth
World premier september 2008, Muffathalle Munich
A body installation by Anna Konjetzky in collaboration with photographer Alvin Booth
Anna Konjetzky’s Don’t Touch is an installation, which exhibits the body through and with which images are created. Members of the audience could linger in front of these images, or just pass by. Body images of different makeup and in different states: The real, present three-dimensional bodies of the dancers entwined with two-dimensional moving projections and presumably static bodies in the still photography of Alvin Booth.
Each dancer inhabits a very confined and cramped area in the empty performance space, Muffathalle. The bodies hang on ropes from the ceiling, inside cellophane paper, imprisoned by a circle of shards, tied to a disk. They are confined in their frame as much as the bodies in Alvin Booth’s photographs. Yet there is enough space for the audience to roam around the hall freely, from one image to the next. The viewers are at best guided by the light dramaturgy that accents and focuses on individual dancers and their movements—who are thus standing out from the masses—shaping the rhythm of the audience’s attention and offering new images and viewpoints.
| installation, choreography, space | Anna Konjetzky |
| dance |
Sarah Duthille, Nathan Fuhr, Flavia Ghisalberti Sahra Huby, Katrin Schafitel Marie-Laure Fiaux, Christiane Mudra Tiko Karrasch, David N. Russo, Alex Strauss |
| photos | Alvin Booth |
| music | Eric Thielemans |
| stage construction | Anton Lukas |
| light design | Michael Bischoff, Anna Konjetzky |
Photos by A. Konjetzky
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