Mette Ingvartsen is no stranger to the NYU Skirball stage – after 7 Pleasures (2017) & to come: extended (2019), she returns with the US premier of Moving in Concert, this time taking the stage herself amongst a company of dancers.
Moving in Concert imagines a universe where humans, technologies and natural materials coexist to create an abstract set of movement. Inspired by how bodies are sensorially affected by living in a digitalized world, the performance explores a poetics of plasticity, abstraction and imagination.
Learn more about Mette Ingvartsen’s work, on and off the stage.
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Read All About It
André Lepecki on Mette Ingvartsen
But what about that other crucial element for dance, what about dance’s relation to “the body”?
Hentyle Yapp on to come (extended)
“Put differently, sex is economic.”
Katleen Van Langendonck & Eva Decaesstecker | 2019
Moving in Concert Interview with Mette Ingvartsen
“What I want to explore with Moving in Concert is the body’s abstract relation to technology.”
Bojana Cvejić | 2019
“Self-Organizing Systems, Stickiness and Mental Resistance…”
“In all my works, you’ll find the problem of choreographing with a specific restraint.”
Get Into It
Get Thee to the LIbrary
Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
Ramsay Burt, Ungoverning Dance: Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons (2016)
Melinda Cooper, Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (2008)
Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, Performing the Body/Performing the Text (1999)
André Lepecki, Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016)
Rebecca Schneider, The Explicit Body in Performance (1997)
Extra Credit
Light, sound, embodiment – Mette Ingvartsen’s work emphasizes a range of sensory experience for the audience, as well as performers. Keep exploring with a visit to the Dream House, & experience an immersive light installation installed (for 30+ years) in an apartment in Tribeca:
The space is soft pink, neon purple, and incredibly loud; you hear the music with your body as much as with your ears. Giant speaker cabinets surround the small room, which is lined with wall-to-wall carpeting and has pillows strewn about the floor. Lounging is encouraged, as Young’s work deliberately invites visitors to slow down and experience the present. (Gothamist, 2023)