Fight Club — A Chorus
A Massive Theater Choreography for 48 Performers
diskodanny.com (Singapore)
post theater [new york/berlin/tokyo]

post theater
http://www.posttheater.com/

WHO post theater is a theater company without theater and without a company: there is no art space permanently used by post theater and there is no permanent ensemble of performers; instead there is a small, mobile and interdisciplinary think tank of artists and academics. This core unit frequently switches roles and responsibilities and casts performers and other artists according to the specific requirements of a project.

WHAT The works of post theater include dance, multi-media performances, installations, interventions in public spaces, lectures, and workshops. “post” means “beyond".

HOW post theater’s works are either installation based or site-specific. Space is read as a text that is just as important as other texts. All post theater projects are research-based. post theater’s re-occurring themes are identity and technology. These issues relate form to content and vice versa. post theater plays with reality and fake and with its audience’s expectation. It aims to engage with the spectators in various ways, providing surprising methods, multi-sensory experiences and complex contents.

WHERE post theater was founded in New York in 1999. The main office moved to Berlin in 2002. The Tokyo branch was opened in 2005.

Max Schumacher

Schumahcer studied dramaturgy at Humboldt University Berlin and performance studies at New York University. He founded post theater in New York in 1999. His pieces toured to Germany, USA, Korea, Singapore, Austria and Serbia and have been invited to several international festivals. He was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2001. In 2003 he conceived “matchmaker matchmaker” (with Matthias Boettger) and ?Turnover (House, Unsettled)“ (with Hiroko Tanahashi). His 2 audience-member piece “light” was invited to the Patravadi Theater in Bangkok (2004) and to Japan (2005). Together with Hiroko Tanahashi he conceived “Heavenly Bento” which was presented at the Bonn Biennale 2004 and the Singapore Arts Festival 2005. Max Schumacher curates all performing arts for Rohkunstbau (with festivals in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), a Brandenburg based festival, and teaches in various contexts (e.g. workshops recently in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Tokyo). He was awarded several times with the Capital City Culture Funds Berlin. In 2007 he is invited to residencies with Eks-Scena in Zagreb, Kunstraum Syltquelle on Sylt Island (North Sea) and Taipei Artist Village in Taipei.

Hiroko Tanahashi

Tanahashi is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts‘ Film and Television Program at New York University (BFA) and of the MFA Program in Multi Media Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design, New York. She has been invited by the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau to present a multi media dance piece, “Bisscuit“. Her interactive theater piece “The Last Circus“ has been shown at the Parsons Auditorium, New York, and the SoloDuoFestival, Berlin (2002). Her project “FLIE” was a hybrid between design and fine arts, a post card sculpture at Laura Mars Group, Berlin in 2003.

She is the artistic director of post theater production “Heavenly Bento” which was shown at Biennale Bonn and Museum for Communication in Berlin (2004) and in Singapore Arts Festival (2005). She showed her second solo exhibition “delicious moves”, a visual and culinary experience of legendary bento boxes, at Zagreus Projekt in Berlin (2004) and Museum for Desgin in Zurich. Her site-specific-multimedia perforamnce series “skinSITEs” has been invited to Croatia, Japan, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Thailand .In 2006 she received “The Future of The Present” from Franklin Furance in New York. In 2007 she is invited to residencies with Eks-Scena in Zagreb, Kunstraum Syltquelle on Sylt Island (North Sea) and Taipei Artist Village in Taipei.

She also works as an illustrator under the label: hirographiehiroko@posttheater.com

diskodanny.com

Individually inspired by her or his own experience of travel and translocation, negotiating between definitions of the self and the ever-shifting contexts of time and place, four established artists in their own fields – a dancer, a composer, a lighting designer and a poet – have come together to share their unique responses to these experiences within a dedicated space of mutual exploration and artistic collaboration. An interesting aspect of this particular sort of collaboration is that the issue of time and place becomes real, especially when work is discussed across time-zones and continents via phone calls or the internet, when even components of the finished product are transported through email or snail-mail. The results of such a collaboration involve combinations of installation and performance, but which eschew ready definitions even as the work aims to bridge genres, demanding instead complex and critical responses.

By aligning itself to a ‘dot-com’, diskodanny.com is hence designed as a highly-mobile – adaptable, transportable, receivable - web-based entity. Following from this, Performance could be viewed as a service-product that focus on the socio-economic, socio-cultural relationships between the art-consumer and the art-purveyor, particularly within urban consumerist culture.

daniel k

daniel k studied Fine Art & Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College in London under the Public Service Commission Scholarship. He also completed a Choreography in Contemporary Dance course at the Laban Centre for Movement & Dance as well as Choreological Studies at Birkbeck College. His performances have travelled to Tokyo, Hong Kong Yogyakarta and Bangkok.

Daniel's work straddles Contemporary Dance and the Visual Arts usually via a sculptural context. He is currently teaching Art & Design at Tampines Junior College (Singapore) and is an Associate Artist at the Substation (Singapore). His key works include Melatonin (DanceSpace 2002; The Substation), Melatonin2 (Little Asia 2003; Tiny Alice Theatre, Tokyo and Esplanade Theatre Studio, Singapore), Anaglyphs (The Substation Gallery 2003), MERCURY (Bangkok Fringe Festival 2005, Patravadi Theatre), MERCURY2 (SeptFest 2006, The Substation Guinness Theatre) and Vermillion (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2007, Esplanade Theatre studio)

His new performance work, Morpheus was featured in the Esplanade Theatre Studio as part of Forward Moves in the Singapore Arts Festival 2007.