In this production "Public in Private" confront the working methods of dance, choreography and performance art with each other.
How much performance art can choreography bear? Is it possible to rehearse a piece of performance art? Beyond the precisely executed concept or the presentation of a choreography without a mistake – What is it that makes the difference in a certain performance? The title UNDER CONSTRUCTION points towards the process oriented approach of "Public in Private" which – as a very important part of the project itself – is opened up to the audience as well.
The performance and the performance space are divided in two parts: Results from the production process and rehearsals are presented in a first space, a white cube / gallery environment. The following live part of the project development takes place in a black box where every evening a new dancer will dance the choreography. A dancer who meets the choreographer for the very first time on stage and in front of the audience.
The question – What makes the difference in a certain performance? – will be newly asked every evening – and possibly find a different answer every evening. Thus the presence of the audience becomes another significant extension of the experimental set up by "Public in Private" – now focusing on a shared question of research between artists and audience, still Under Construction.
*each evening another dancer performs, and therefore each show is one time experience.