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Het Parool Tuesday, 23 March 2010 Art and Media Copy of Copy Makes Original Bregtje Schudel Contemporary dance makers look back at dance history within the second edition of Cover . Choreographer Andrea Bozic (1970) got inspired by choreographer Yvonne Rainer (1934). It is pitchdark at the Amsterdam University Theatre where the runthrough of After Trio A takes place. A dancer learns a part of a dance phrase from Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A from 1966 from a monitor that is hidden to the audience. Dancer number two later copies her movements. On the right screen, statements appear from Rainer’s No Manifesto (1965). ‘No to glamour. No to the heroic. No to the antiheroic.’ On the left screen, footage is shown of Yvonne Rainer from the original Trio A. In the meantime, a camera records the dancer’s movements which are later projected on a screen before which the dancers move. Result: an image in front of an image in front of an image. Or: a copy of a copy of a copy. Bozic has felt a strong affinity with the work of Yvonne Rainer for a long time. However, she has never really seen any of her work. “There is very little original video material. What is left behind from much of the work is what she and the others have said or written about it. But every time I read something by her or

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Het  Parool  

Tuesday,  23  March  2010  

Art  and  Media  

Copy  of  Copy  Makes  Original  

Bregtje  Schudel  

Contemporary  dance  makers  look  back  at  dance  history  within  the  second  edition  of  Cover  .  Choreographer  Andrea  Bozic  (1970)  got  inspired  by  choreographer  Yvonne  Rainer  (1934).  

 

It  is  pitch-­‐dark  at  the  Amsterdam  University  Theatre  where  the  runthrough  of  After  Trio  A  takes  place.  A  dancer  learns  a  part  of  a  dance  phrase  from  Yvonne  Rainer’s  Trio  A  from  1966  from  a  monitor  that  is  hidden  to  the  audience.  Dancer  number  two  later  copies  her  movements.  On  the  right  screen,  statements  appear  from  Rainer’s  No  Manifesto  (1965).  ‘No  to  glamour.  No  to  the  heroic.  No  to  the  antiheroic.’  On  the  left  screen,  footage  is  shown  of  Yvonne  Rainer  from  the  original  Trio  A.  

In  the  meantime,  a  camera  records  the  dancer’s  movements  which  are  later  projected  on  a  screen  before  which  the  dancers  move.  Result:  an  image  in  front  of  an  image  in  front  of  an  image.  Or:  a  copy  of  a  copy  of  a  copy.  

Bozic  has  felt  a  strong  affinity  with  the  work  of  Yvonne  Rainer  for  a  long  time.  However,  she  has  never  really  seen  any  of  her  work.  “There  is  very  little  original  video  material.  What  is  left  behind  from  much  of  the  work  is  what  she  and  the  others  have  said  or  written  about  it.  But  every  time  I  read  something  by  her  or  

about  her,  I  feel  affinity.  In  how  she  thinks,  her  sense  of  humour,  her  search  for  how  to  show  dance  without  doing  ‘as  if’.  Rainer  said  once:  ‘The  ideal  audience  is  an  audience  that  sees  both  the  spectacle  and  how  this  spectacle  is  made.’  I  am  myself  busy  with  a  process,  with  how  things  work.’  

The  two  basic  principles  behind  Trio  A  are  simple:  ‘The  first  is  about  continuity.  Everything  goes  on  without  any  accents.  It  was  a  reaction  to  what  she  identified  was  a  feature  of  western  dance  -­‐  always  based  on  a  build  up,  an  explosion  and  then  a  release.  Rainer  wanted  to  show  something  without  a  hierarchy  of  moments  in  time.  The  second:  she  had  a  problem  with  the  relationship  between  the  spectator  and  the  dancer  as  inherently  voyeuristic/narcissistic.  Therefore,  the  dancers  may  never  look  straight  into  the  eyes  of  the  audience.  If  this  does  happen,  they  close  their  eyes.’  

Many  people  were  inspired  by  the  piece  in  the  course  of  fourty  years  and  Rainer  herself  has  made  other  pieces  based  on  the  Trio  A  dance  phrase.    

This  poses  an  interesting  question:  What  is  the  original  here?  “There  are  no  original  materials,’  says  Bozic.  “All  information  is  already  re-­‐worked.  My  milk  comes  from  a  plastic  box,  not  from  a  cow.  I  have  never  seen  that  cow.  There  is  only  a  black  and  white  film  left  behind  from  Trio  A,  danced  solo  by  Rainer.  However,  Trio  A  was  never  danced  as  a  solo  but  always  as  a  trio.’  

Bozic  asked  Rainer  for  permission  to  re-­‐interpret  her  piece.  ‘I  sent  her  a  concept  before  we  started.  She  was  symphatetic  to  the  idea  of  showing  people  on  stage  who  go  through  a  process  of  learning.  She  is  not  very  difficult  about  it.  She  let  everyone  do  what  they  wanted  with  Trio  A.’  

However,  Bozic  emphasizes,  After  Trio  A  is  an  original  piece  that  she  has  made  with  her  collaborators.  “I  do  not  follow  authorities.  She  offered  something  first  which  has  caused  a  chain  reaction.  I  am  one  of  the  people  that  has  reacted.’  

 

Andrea  Bozic.  After  Trio  A.  26  and  27  March,  Frascati  1.  Cover#2.  24  to  27  March  in  Theater  Frascati.