AU – first residency phase completed in Istres!

AU by Kylie Walters and Christian Ubl with Seb Martel and Gilles Clément is a new production in creation as we speak.

A performance with Kylie Walters, Christian Ubl and live music by Sebastian Martel

Made in collaboration with the celebrated botanist, landscape gardner and writer Gilles Clément.

Opens for the season 2015/2016.

More news soon…

Sebastian Martel, Kylie Walters, Gilles Clément, Christian Ubl
photo by Fabienne Gras

AU is an idea for a performance developed by two choreographers; one from the old European empire (Austria AU- Christian Ubl) and the other from the ancient/new world (Australia AU – Kylie Walters).
The choreographers collaborate with the writer, gardener and botanist, Gilles Clément on his manifesto of a “Tiers Paysage” (Third Landscape). Together they question and try to create a new or perhaps a forgotten space. A place that does not belong to an identifiable territory and does not have a specific function. A place where power is neither expressed nor endured. This hybrid space is a refuge for diversity, composed of lost ideas, vagabond identities, forgotten cultures and exists at the periphery of the possible. A forgotten place? A political negligence? An unhoped for space?
The third space (AU) is created with 3 performers: Kylie Walters, Christian Ubl and musician Sebastian Martel (FR) working with the traditional Austrian cithare, the guitar and the leitmotif of the waltz to create a live score. The dance uses motifs of the Viennese Waltz and Australian Aboriginal dances to create a third possibility.