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Haring/Obermaier
Austria
Chris Haring
Studied music and rhythmic at the University of Music in Vienna, further studies in New York. Worked with DV8 (Lloyd Newson), Pilottanzt, Nikolais/Luis Dance Cie., Nigel Charnock, Tanz*Hotel, Willi Dorner, and others. He performed in Europe, U.S.A., South America, Japan. Since 1993 he concentrates on choreographic works. The collaboration with Klaus Obermaier started in 1998 when they directed the Leonardo-Project Vienna/Berlin.
Klaus Obermaier
Studied guitar at the University of Music in Vienna and painting at the Kunsthochschule Linz. He worked with Kronos Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ornette Coleman, John Scofield, Peter Erskine, Heiner Goebbels, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, dance companies the Nederlands Dans Theaters, Tanz*Hotel. Commissioned works for festivals Ars electronica, Diagonale, Musikfest Bremen, JazzYatra/Bombay, Hörgänge/Konzerthaus Wien, Kenkeleba House NYC, Leonardo-Project Vienna/Berlin, Linzer Klangwolke 98, etc.
D.A.V.E. (Digital Amplified Video Engine)
Choreography and dance: Chris Haring
Video and music: Klaus Obermaier
DAVE...
...is playing with real and virtual situations and with the dissolution of limits between these two conditions.
...is confronting archaic instincts with the high technology world of the information and communication society.
...is going through genetic transformations, amputations, manipulations.
...is morphing between nightmare, deliverance, and transformation until reaching the desintegration of the physical body.
...is a perfect symbiosis of a video projection and a human body.
www.t0.or.at/~kobermaier
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