PASTA FOR TIRED DANCERS

Pasta for Tired Dancers explores the interdependencies and interstices between the varied artistic practices it consists of. It likes to ask questions rather than answering them: How do we hear and how do we look? How do we perceive space through sound and sound through space? How is the sense of time connected to memory and repetition in music? Why are the movements that produce sounds not considered dance? Why is a difference made between a concert and a performance? What are the implications of post-production techniques for live-production?

This project deliberately wants to be several things at the same time: Pasta for Tired Dancers is a festival that attempts to question our distribution of what can be seen, heard, thought, felt, said and done – and what is excluded from it. It is an architecture of time frames and temporalities, reaching from 1 minute to 24 hours, filled with sounds produced by a male voice, a female voice, a piano, an amplified viola and violin, by computers, an orchestra, a choir, acoustic and electric guitars, electronic devices, and a tea pot, as well as by the acoustic characteristics of the Kaaitheater and the Kaaitheaterstudios and by each member of the audience. It is the week-long performative activity of a person – Barbara Hindahl – producing spatio-visual interventions considered visual art. It is a set of dance performances closely connected to various musical contexts. It is the screening of documentary, cinematic and live generated visual material. It is a small-scale temporary mediatheque that extends the program to music, texts, books and films. It is a series of musical pieces that represent highly different concepts and styles of music created between 1741 and 2007. It is a series of lectures and talks given by a theatre theoretician and performer, a musicologist, a composer and a choreographer.

And finally, Pasta for Tired Dancers is the title of a text by Alvin Lucier, written in 1992, and the recipe for a real meal consisting of pasta, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and parmesan cheese (no salt, no pepper), to be cooked by Alvin Lucier for the audience.

Thanks to Alvin for lending this title. Thanks to all the artists and people involved in Pasta for Tired Dancers. Thanks to the team of Kaaitheater.

(Program Text, 2007)