© Ger J. Van Leeuwen
RECONSTRUCTION OF A DANSE MACABRE
Conceived at the invitation of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, as part of the Fisuras exhibition programme, this new work by Olga de Soto represents a new displacement of her work and aims to establish various relationships with the museum's collection over time and in different contexts. The exhibition is divided into three separate rooms: a documentation room where documents collected by Olga de Soto interact with documents and works created by the artist; a second room devoted to a new sound creation that offers an auditive sensorial experience; and a third projection room that houses the medium-length film that gives its name to the exhibition. This show extends and deepens the artist's research based on a seminal piece in the history of dance, The Green Table (1932) by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss. In this piece, Pina Bausch's master denounced the rise of fascism and the devastating consequences of war on individuals and societies.
Olga de Soto's research into the very medium of dance, its history and reception, explores questions such as the choreographic archive, oral and corporeal memory, and the possibilities of translating the scenic into the exhibition space. The voice as trace and the gesture as vector of perception are at the heart of this new overflow of Jooss's work, which Olga de Soto has studied for many years and which she is now deploying in the museum space.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of performative interventions in the Collection's rooms, inviting visitors to enter both physically and mentally into this new fissure within the museum.
Exhibition open to the public from 28th February to 1st July 2024 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
concept, direction, documentation and scenography Olga de Soto
video editing Julien Contreau and Olga de Soto
voice editing Benoît Pelé, Pierre Gufflet and Olga de Soto
sound mixing Benoît Pelé
sound spatialisation Pierre Gufflet
exhibition assembly assistant and scenography consultant Benjamin Muzart
external view Andrea Rodrigo
with testimonies of Juan Allende Blin, Jeanne Brabants, Jacqueline Challet-Haas, Edith del Campo, Françoise Dupuy, Fernando García, Marina Grut, Christian Holder, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Bruno Jacquin, Joan Turner Jara, Philip Lansdale, Michelle Nadal, Nora Salvo, Hanns Stein, Andras Uthoff, Toer van Schayk, Jeanette Vondersaar and Gerd Zacher
photographs by Charles E. Brown, Siegfried Enkelmann, Kurt Hege, Fritz Henle, Marianne Reisman, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Ger J. van Leuween and several photographs by unknown photographers
photographic prints Atelier KZG, Brussels
archives Bibliothèque nationale de France, Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln / SK Stiftung Kultur, Dartington Archive - Dartington Trust and The Elmgrant Trust, Centro de Documentación de las Artes Escénicas - Municipal de Santiago...
curator Lola Hinojosa
coordination Eva Rodríguez Vera, Almudena Díez
restoration Paula Ercilla
setting up Zénit Soluciones Audiovisuales, Montajes Horche
production Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), in collaboration with Niels Production (Brussels)
The work created by Olga de Soto as part of the Fisuras programme stems from her research and creation project based on The Green Table by Kurt Jooss, supported financially by the following institutions:TANZFONDS ERBE, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Co-producers: Centre Pompidou - Les Spectacles vivants (Paris), Festival d'Automne (Paris), Tanz Im August (Berlin), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna, AT), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels), Joint Adventures/Tanzwerkstatt Europa (Munich), Culturgest (Lisbon), Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (CCNM) as part of Jardin d'Europe - with the support of the European Union (Montpellier, FR), Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté (Belfort), Open Latitudes (Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels - Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille ; Le Manège de Mons / Maison Folie, Mons - Cialo Umysl Foundation, Warsaw - Teatro delle Moire, Milan - Sin Arts and Culture Centre, Budapest - Le Phénix Scène nationale de Valenciennes - L'Arsenic, Lausanne) - with the support of the European Union, Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels). With the support of the Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Direction générale de la Culture - Service de la danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), Archives Jooss / Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Koln). With the support of the Théâtre de Liège (Liège) and the Centre de développement chorégraphique d'Uzès.
Research grants from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (FR), the Aide à la recherche et au Patrimoine en Danse programme of the Centre national de la danse (Paris) and the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE).