Dan Safer / Witness Relocation (USA)
« Vicious Dogs on Premises »
Dance-theatre
23.24.25.26 april 09
Thursday, Friday 8.30pm / Saturday 8:15pm / Sunday 3.45pm
It is hard to know how to define Vicious Dogs on Premises. Is it a dance show? A theatre play? In a baby pink decor, the bodies of the dancers seem electrified, and many different things happen in turn: dance, theatre, fight dog training, a few sentences from a book by Romanian writer Saviana Stanescu, loud rock music, live videos and other random things! Every night, the show changes, and the performers play one of the four roles. Vicious Dogs on Premises is pure theatrical energy for 50 minutes. With their intensely physical, poetic, sometimes brutal or scandalous performances, Dan Safer’s shows blow up a certain idea of today’s American culture to pieces!
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’’Witness Relocation shows mainly deal with the energy produced in the theatre itself between audience and performers. Vicious Dogs on Premises centres around the real fight of creating something with performers who execute tasks in real time. From this perspective, the show answers sensitively and directly to the need for a performance that speaks to us in a universal language and tackles head-on the issues currently at stake in our global culture – communication problems, decision making, saying or doing the right thing, and going through daily life.’’ Dan Safer
Background
The Witness Relocation company was founded in 2000. It is managed by director and choreographer Dan Safer, who originates from New Jersey. To rave reviews, it has produced 10 original productions, has stayed in residence for 2 years at the famous Theatre Patravadi in Bangkok (Thailand); there, it has performed in theatres, nightclubs, rock videos and a Thai TV series. The New York based company has been compared to Pina Bausch, Richard Foreman and the Wooster Group, but the way Witness Relocation mobilises uncertainty, the sheer physical vitality of its performers and the accumulation of genres would put it closer to people like Andre Serban, Jan Fabre, Frank Castorf or David Bowie.
The show entitled Dancing Vs. the Rat Experiment was awarded in 2007 three New York Innovative Theater Awards (best production, best sound, best choreography) and nominated for a further three (best ensemble, best lighting, best costumes).
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Cast and crew
Directed/choreographed by Dan Safer.
Performers / co-choreographers: Heather Christian, Sean Donovan, Mike Mikos, and Laura Berlin Stinger.
Script: Savania Stanescu.
Technical Director: Drew Buck.
Set Design / Lighting by Jay Ryan.
Sound by Ryan Maeker.
Costumes by Pandora Andrea Gastelum.
Video by Kaz Phillips.
Press Officer: Jonathan Slaff.
Thanks to
Production: Ontological-Hysteric Theater (New York).
Residence: Fuse Box Festival (Austin).
