Agony Art | Saturday 14 April @ 7.30pm

with Rahel Vonmoos & Seke Chimutengwende

Rahel is an independent dance artist who makes her own and collaborative work for many years. The piece performed at Agony Art will be called I want to sleep or another portrait (nr. 4) or an experiment in 3 parts. For this event Rahel is interested in the way that pre-planning might fail and how chance can fail too. There will be projection in the space.

Seke has been practising performing solo improvisation since 2006 in a variety of contexts from theatres to clubs to dance studios to people’s living rooms. Seke usually works with movement and text and generally performs without any pre-planned structure or theme, preferring to find both in the moment of performance.

technical support by Ian Stickland

performance starts 7.30pm | bar available from 7.00pm
tickets: £5 on the door
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Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

about the artists

Rahel Vonmoos has worked among others with choreographers Rosemary Butcher, Philippe Gehmacher, Charles Linehan and Iztok Kovac (film on improvisation) and with Ricochet Dance Productions. She collaborated with video artist Ruth Schlaepfer (Switzerland), creating video/dance installations performed in art galleries and has participated in several collaborative projects with company Pool (Zurich) and Trisha Bauman (Paris). Her works shall I sit here and and again will be performed as part of Spring Loaded 2012on May 19th at The Place. Her last collaboration A Light Conversation with American dancer/choreographer Wally Cardona was seen in Dance Umbrella 2009 and has toured in Europe and The US from 2008-2011. Rahel is a BMC practitioner and holds an MA in Body in Performance. She teaches for ID, GDA and is a guest lecturer for Somatic Practice at LCDS. She has taught many companies in London (DV8, Protein, Random and others) and abroad (Daniel Larrieu, Molteni and more) and at various festivals internationally. Rahel is Swiss/British, a mother of two and lives in London.

Seke Chimutengwende studied dance at Lewisham College and London Contemporary Dance School. Since 2004, Seke has performed internationally with Alias Cie, DV8 Physical Theatre, The Fabulous Beast, Lost Dog, Dog Kennel Hill Project, Laila Diallo, Punchdrunk, Zephyr in Zanussi, Rick Nodine, Karl Jay Lewin, Rannva Karodottir, Tino Sehgal, Ruby Worth, Jose Vidal and Vangelis Legakis. In 2011 he performed in the exhibition Pioneers of the Downtown Scene:New York the 1970’s at the Barbican Art Gallery in three early works by Trisha Brown and in a reinterpretation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Open House. Seke has been practicing and performing his own solo improvisation work since 2006, performs ensemble improvisation with Neat Timothy and co-curates Stranger Than Fiction, a monthly platform for improvisation in performance in London. Seke teaches improvisation on a freelance basis at various institutions and dance companies internationally. Seke has recently been awarded a grant by the Arts Council of England to create and tour his new choreography “Mr Lawrence” in 2012.

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