mirjam gurtner

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Delighted to announce that my duet unknowing got selected for TANZFAKTOR 2018 and will be touring to 11 different venues across Switzerland between March and October 2018. Watch this space for tour details. 

most recent work

CORPUS

10/11 June 2017. A new short piece created for BewegGrund, performed at BewegGrund: Das Festival, Dampfzentrale Bern. http://www.beweggrund.org/de/das-festival-2017/programmueberblick-2017/kurzstueck-programm-68.html

Public Affairs.

8 June 2017. Performance at Wildwuchs Festival 2017, Kaserne Basel. http://www.wildwuchs.ch/de/produktion/Public_Affairs

September/October 2016, Basel, Offene Kirche Elisabethen: Creation of Public Affairs, a new work created in collaboration with refugees and Basel citizens. Produced by Tanzbüro Basel.

Public Affairs explores the the movements of a group. A play between proximity and distance, forming and separating, buildup and collapse. A juxtaposition of the individual and the group, of the private and the public. What do we know of each other? How much of the individual is visible an a community? How does the collective perception differ from the personal? Over five weeks, choreographer Mirjam Gurtner worked together with people from Basel and people who have fled to Basel to create a contemporary dance piece. The amateur dancers were not taught a finished choreography but searched for a common artistic language.

Almost Everything

24/25/26 June 2016, Berlin, Flughafenstrasse: A site-specific dance performance in a private apartment. Part of 48-Stunden-Neukölln Arts Festival Berlin, http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/almost-everything.          

DISPLAY

2016, London, Wellcome Collection: Creation of the durational site specific performance DISPLAY for Candoco Dance Company at the Wellcome Collection London. http://wellcomecollection.org/events/friday-late-spectacular-display

BERLIN DIAGONALE 2016

Invitation to BERLIN DIAGONALE during the Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2016, a presentation platform for independent artists and companies based in Berlin. http://www.berlin-diagonale.de/en/2016/berlin_performing_arts_festival_id39/