Artists
Phase One (September 2017)
Astrid Endruweit originally trained in butoh, made her first appearance on the stage with Pigg In Hell in 2000, a solo directed by Michael Laub. Since then she has been performing with Remote Control Productions, contributing text, songs, costumes, videos and choreography, developing a highly eclectic creative working method. Besides having her own portraits made by Michael Laub (Alone 2004 and Asutorito Endoruwaito 2016), she has been the dramaturge of his Portrait Series since 2007. She is collaborating with other artists like Chris Kondek, Meg Stuart, Ensemble Courage, Lars Rudolph, The Incredible Herrengedeck i.a., and pursues her interest in visual and video art by creating installations like in 2007 Woman with mother’s cake. The fear of dying before having given birth.
Greg Zuccolo was born in Galt, Ontario, Canada. He was trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He has collaborated with the likes of Stanley Love, Tere O’Connor and Sarah Michelson. He has created and presented his own work, some of which has been supported by YADDO, DIXON PLACE and JACK. Over the course of the last two years he’s worked mostly on plays and films with Ben Speth, Nicholas Elliot, Mike Iveson, Joel Clark and Tina Satter. He is the Choreographic Consultant Emeritus for Half Straddle. He has worked closely with Michael Laub for the last eighteen years, creating and performing works internationally. His latest collaboration with Laub took place in Cambodia. Other associations include Ede Thurrell, Parker Lutz, Chrysa Parkinson, Jay Scheib, Oren Barnoy, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Matthew Barney.
Phase Two (November 2017)
Long Zhao received a M.F.A in Dance from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Pack School of the Arts. Mr Zhao is from a family of noted dance artists in China. He started dance at the age of six and graduated from Beijing Dance Academy as a Ballet instructor. Mr Zhao joined China Ballet Company and was promoted to the rank of principal dancer. He was also a founding member of the first Modern Dance Company in China in collaboration with the American Dance Festival in which he graduated.
Long Zhao arrived in America in 1990 and appeared as a guest soloist with the New Jersey Ballet Theater and Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Lab. Then he danced with the Ballet Florida, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Royal National Theater, American Repertory Ballet, Los Angeles Classical Ballet, Anglo-American Ballet, Rod Rodgers Dance Theater and worked with many dance company in New York City. With extensive experience as a principal dancer, Mr Zhao has worked with many of the great contemporary choreographers of today, William Forsythe, John Butler, Vincente Nebrada, Michael Smuin, Murray Louis, Lisa York among others.
For the past 15 years, as a master teacher Mr Zhao has taught students from beginner to professional lever throughout the United States and Internationally. He has also conducted many workshops and master classes with ballet schools and companies. The class emphasizes correct technique, placement coordination and the development of strength while the understanding of the physics of ballet technique and musicality are also stressed as an important component in the training process.
Anne Juren born in Grenoble/France is a dancer and choreographer based in Vienna. She studied dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse in France and at the Trisha Brown Company in New York. In 2003, she co-founded together with the virtual artist Roland Rauschmeier the association Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung in Vienna. Her choreographic works and artistic researches have been extensively presented in international theaters, festivals and different international art spaces and galleries. In her work and through her practice Juren empathizes matter, desires, phantasms and actions in engaging the body in different states of fantastical, sensorial, kinaesthesic and physical experiences, questioning the boundaries between the public and the private. Since 2013, Anne Juren is a Feldenkrais practitioner. She is currently a member of the artistic committee for the Master in Choreography at DOCH and is a PhD candidat at UNIARTS Stockholm University of the Arts.
Astrid Endruweit
Phase Three (January 2018)
In collaboration with Sa Sa Art Projects
Arnont Nongyao, born in 1979 in Bangkok, lives in Chiang Mai where he graduated from the painting department of the Chiang Mai University in 2003.
Arnont is working with various and different media includes sound, video, installation, site specific, public art etc. Arnont’s work is engage with his interest in vibration; he works on diverse art experimental projects, vibration-related.
Some of his selected exhibitions include TRANCE at Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand (2014), Imaginarium, (Water Cave) at Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2011), 16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015, Wroclaw, Poland (2015), Papay gyro night Art Festival 2015, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Scotland (2015) DRIFT A series of experimental sound project Project #1: Duration at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2014), Experimental Video Art Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship 2004-2014 (EVA project) at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2014) From Wat to Wat: The Vertical Perception at Soi Wat Umong, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2014), PROXIMITY, part of inSPIRACJE International at 13 MUZ, Szczecin, Poland (2014), Dialogue the Promise at Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2013), Cross Stitch at Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2013), The Sleeping Volcano On Crazy Star at V64, Bangkok, Thailand (2012), MADE at Ban Tuek, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2011), Madifesto 2011 at Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2011), What to Dip at Sangdee Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2011) etc.
Phase Four (February 2018)
Amanda Coogan is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art, performance, photography and video. She is one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary visual artist’s practicing in the arena of performance. Her 2015 exhibition in the Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy, I’ll sing you a song from around the Town, was described by Artforum as ‘performance art at its best’.
Her extraordinary work is challenging, provocative and always visually stimulating. In 2010 the Irish Times said, ‘Coogan, whose work usually entails ritual, endurance and cultural iconography, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’. Her expertise lies in her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works that challenge expected contexts.
Her works encompass a multitude of media; Objects, Text, Moving and Still Image but all circulate around her live performances. She is at the forefront of some of the most exciting and prolific durational performances to date. The long durational aspect of her presentations invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting dynamically through her live artworks. She is first and foremost an embodied practitioner. Her work often begins with her own body and challenges the expectations of the contexts, such as head banging to Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’, and signing the lyrics to Gill Scott-Heron’s ‘The Revolution will not be Televised’. Her work moves freely between solo presented live performances, group performances and living installation.
Coogan holds a degree in Sculpture from Dublin’s National College of Art and Design. She was a Masters student of Marina Abramovic at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig, Germany and received her PhD from the University of Ulster in 2013. She is an occasional lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin; Limerick School of Art and Design; The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin; Dublin Institute of Technology and Crawford College of Art, Cork.
Among many awards Coogan received the Allied Irish Bank’s Art prize in 2004. She has performed and exhibited her work extensively including the Broad Museum, Michigan; The Neimeyer Centre, Spain; The MAC, Belfast; Lismore Arts, Waterford; HOME mrc, Manchester; The Golden Thread, Belfast; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, The LAB, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art; PS1, New York, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, West Cork Arts Centre; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Greg Zuccolo
Phase Five (May 2018)
Vanthy Khen is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is graduated from the Secondary school of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh where she is now teaching. She also studied choreography four years and a half in Seoul at the Korea University of Fine Arts. She performed and choreographed various shows for cultural organizations and festivals in Cambodia as well as in the neighboring countries for the Ministry of Culture of Cambodia.
Since 2012 she works with Michael Laub/ Remote Control Productions. She enjoys working with International artists and sharing with them her Cambodian dance’s knowledge. Her goal is to contribute to the development of the new generation of Cambodian dance artists.
Director / Choreographer Michael Laub has been referred to as a pioneer of Postdramatic Theatre. In 1981, he founded Remote Control Productions , emerging from performance group Maniac Productions, presenting amongst others “Rough” 1994, “Planet Lulu” 1997, “Pigg In Hell” 2000, “Total Masala Slammer” 2001 and “The H.C. Andersen Project” 2003. His pieces oscillate between realism and fiction, making use of authenticity and the artificial simultaneously. His performances include various forms including dance and are often influenced by film and television. Since 2002, he has been working on the “Portrait Series”, an attempt at adapting portraiture to the stage. Previous showings of this series include “Portraits 360 Sek” at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus 2002, “Portrait Series: Alone / Gregoire” with Astrid Endruweit and Greg Zuccolo 2004, “The Biography Remix” with Marina Abramovic 2004, “Portrait Series Berlin: Professional and Non-Professional Dancers” 2007, “Portrait Series Istanbul: Aspiring Actresses and Actresses” 2010, “Burgportraits” Burgtheater Vienna 2011 and “Portrait Series Battambang: Scavengers, Models and a Security Guard”, HAU Hebbel am Ufer as part of “Staging Cambodia” in 2014. Early in 2016, Laub premiered a new live solo “Asutorito Endurowaito“ with Astrid Endruweit” at HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, as well as a new ten-channel video installation entitled “Dance Portraits Cambodia” at the 21er Haus in Vienna presented by ImPulsTanz Festival and the Weltmuseum. Following the world premier of “Fassbinder, Faust and the Animists” at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in 2017, the piece opened the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.
Phase Six (August 2018)
Active in the dance community since the 1970s, Benoît Lachambre first learned about Releasing in 1985. This kinesthetic approach to movement and its use of improvisation became an important influence on his choreographic work. He decided to immerse himself in an exploratory approach to movement and its sources, to seek out the authenticity of movement. His work, both as a choreographer and a performer, has at its centre the hyper-awareness of the senses, and the connection between the somatic and the artistic is central to his practice.
He founded his own company in Montréal in 1996, christening it Par B.L.eux, ‘B.L.’ for his own initials and ‘eux’ for the artists he chooses to collaborate with, and who have become central to his artistic process.
Benoît Lachambre is one of the foremost artist-choreographer-performers of his generation. He has created 17 works for his own company since Par B.L.eux was founded, and participated in more than 20 productions by other companies, in addition to some 25 commissioned works.
With the solo, Lifeguard (2016), presented at the June Events Festival in Paris in June 2016, Benoît Lachambre seeks to further deconstruct the notion of the choreographic impulse as well as the redefinition of performer / spectator roles. He affirmed and deepened this desire in Fluid Grounds, a group work, premiered at the TransAmériques Festival in June 2018.