NODDING DOG
CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHERS
Michael Klien | Nick Mortimire | Davide Terlingo
COMPOSER
Volkmar Klien
CONDUCTOR
Rick Stengårds
SET DESIGN | GRAPHICS
Rafal Kosakowski
COMPUTERPROGRAMMER
Nick Rothwell
COSTUMES
Simon Frearson
PRODUCTION TEAM
Liz King | Manfred Biskup | Christoph Hoelscher | Beate Minkowitsch
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Michael Dürr | Raphael Just
DANCERS
Jonna Aaltonen | Eveline Van Bauwel | Fleur Conlon | Martin Dvorak | Milos
Galko Briony Hutton | Mani Obeya | Vladislav Soltys | Angie Tsitrimpini
| Katarina Vlnieskova
MUSICIANS
Musicians of the Volksoper Wien
PREMIERE
20th December 2001
Volksoper, Vienna
A new work of ballett by Michael Klien, Nick Mortimore
and Davide Terlingo with a striking new score by composer Volkmar Klien
for 15 musicians of the Volksoper Wien.
Along with other members of the leading artistic team, the three choreographers
have established themselves by working in London as the arts-group Barriedale
Operahouse. '…unmissable for the post-modern and the avant-garde…'
writes the London Evening Standard and Ballett International comments:
'…the work is refreshing and unselfconsciously experimental…
it reminds us that there is a more vital, younger generation who do still
dream of anarchy and revolution…'.
In NODDING DOG the choreographers model a society that unfolds on stage
through the interaction of dancers, musicians, animation and computers.
It is a new work of fiction played out in 15/13 m of enclosed community.
enclosed within a stage, opened wide by computed possibility. 3 construct
parameters for 11, then 11 resolve the puzzle that is 7. seven? 7 indicators
of progress, seven points on a score, seven oceans, seven hills, call
it what you will but still seven. so 11 quote 3 with fifteen accompaniment,
the 15 giving assistance to compute and determine what is 7. 7, 3, fifteen,
11, + 1 dog: and the dog cries wolf, i mean wouldn't you?
NODDING DOG offers insight into the emergence of grammar/relations not
only for a language of the stage but also of a modelled society.