AME HENDERSON (CA)& MATIJA FERLIN (HR): OUT OF SEASON
23. 9. zagrebačka premijera● 20:00h ● 60 min ● Zagreb Dance Centre
Matija Ferlin and Ame Henderson are returning to the comfortable impossibility of their last co-creation The Most Together We’ve Ever Been. They’re once again embracing the uncanny restraint and humorous sophistication of their shared performance language and elaborating the terms of their collaborative process in which each person relinquishes his or her authorial control entirely to the other. They maintain a stringent division between the roles of the dancer and the choreographer. Simultaneously they demand a fluency in transition between the role each adopts and consequently imposes. Starting now where they left off, the pair turns their attentions to each other. Even if the time isn’t right, they’re here. And they’re not going anywhere.
Ame Henderson
INTERVIEW
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR OUT OF SEASON TO A RANDOM PASSER-BY?
The work has yet to be finished, so we’re not sure exactly what it’s form will be. So far we have constructed a series of gestures that we perform together. Each gesture tranforms into the next in a long, non-repeating sequence. The musician, DJ and producer Victoria Cheong (New Chance) creates a live score for the work.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS FORM TO TALK ABOUT REALITY?
Dancing is like no other form. It is emergent. It is both formal and affective. The dancer knows where they are while on the way to somewhere else. So dancing is a paradox. This seems useful and also humble given what is already going on.
We imagine that we can be something different dancing than we can be in another state. We are committed to the practice of becoming that produces the possibility for many readings, connections and discoveries – both for us and for those that witness us.
WHY SHOULD WE, AS AUDIENCE, CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING?
Maybe you’ll be curious, as we are, at the experience of time spent, of attention and care, of trust in and dedication to something that is coming into being between us. And by us, we mean all of us. We need you to see what we are doing to even begin to know what it is ourselves.
IF YOU HAD ANY MEANS AVAILABLE (‘IDEAL WORLD SITUATION’) WHAT KIND OF PROJECT WOULD YOU DO?
It’s too difficult to answer this question honestly as we are always working on and in the situation that is, imagining that by working, we create a kind of temporary ideal state.
WHAT THREE THINGS NEVER FAIL TO BRING YOU PLEASURE?
Each other. Morning coffee. Poetry.
Matija Ferlin
BIOGRAPHIES
Ame Henderson (Toronto, Canada) is an Associate Artist with Public Recordings, a collaborative operation that conjoins artistic research, performance creation, learning, and publication. Her choreographic works have been created and performed in Canada and internationally.
Matija Ferlin (Pula, Croatia) is a graduate of The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Since 2007, Matija has intensively investigated different performative forms, showing his work at home and abroad.
Public Recordings
Since 2003, Public Recordings’ dance experiments have proposed choreography as the tension between the established and the emergent – while their performances have made the remarkable case that dance changes how we imagine the possible. A collaborative operation that conjoins artistic research, performance creation, learning, and publication, Public Recordings makes ground-breaking projects that activate the potentials of shared space. Works including /Dance/Songs/, 300 TAPES, relay, what we are saying and The Most Together We’ve Even Been have been presented in Belgium, Croatia, France, Italy, The Netherlands, the UK, and across Canada.
CREDITS
Choreography and Performance | Ame Henderson and Matija Ferlin
Sound | Victoria Cheong
Scenography | Mauricio Ferlin
Lighting and Technical Direction | Paul Chambers
Light – Saša Fistrić
Production| sandra Henderson
Production support: Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario Arts Council; Istrian National Theatre Pula, HIPP residential program of Zagreb Dance Centre in cooperation with Ganz New Festival –Culture of Change, Student Centre Zagreb
Coproduction: National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Zagreb Dance Centre
