Mette Ingvartsen
I samtale: Mette Ingvartsen & Danjel Andersson
I 2004 formulerede Mette Ingvartsen sit Yes Manifesto som et svar på Yvonne Rainers No Manifesto – en radikal afvisning af det spektakulære, virtuositet, glamour og mange af dansens konventioner.
På åbningsdagen for OPENINGS genbesøger Ingvartsen og Danjel Andersson Yes Manifesto og undersøger, hvad dets idéer betyder for samtidsdansen i dag.
Den uformelle og dybdegående samtale indledes med et videobidrag fra André Lepecki, professor ved Department of Performance Studies på Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Publikum er meget velkomne til at stille spørgsmål og dele refleksioner.
Mette Invartsens Yes Manifesto (2004):
Yes to redefining virtuosity
Yes to “invention” (however impossible)
Yes to conceptualizing experience, affects and sensation
Yes to materiality and body practice
Yes to expression
Yes to un-naming, decoding and recoding expression
Yes to non-recognition, non-resemblance
Yes to non-sense/illogics
Yes to organizing principles rather than fixed logic systems
Yes to moving the “clear concept” behind the actual performance of
Yes to methodology and procedures
Yes to editing and animation
Yes to style as a result of procedure and specificity of a proposal (meaning each proposal has another “style”/specificity, and in this sense the work cannot be considered essentialist.)
Yes to multiplicity, difference and co-existence
About
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer with a company based in Brussels. Her internationally reclaimed and vast body of work is characterized by hybridity and engages in extending choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual arts, technology, language and theory.
Mette Ingvartsen holds a PhD in choreography from Stockholm’s University of the Arts and graduated prior to that from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. Since establishing her company in 2003, her work has been shown throughout Europe, as well as in the U.S, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia. She has been artist in residence at the Kaaitheater in Brussels, Volksbühne in Berlin, as well as associated to the APAP network. In 2024 she was granted the lifetime achievement award by the Danish Arts Foundation.
