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Un acte sérieux

(A serious act)

Cie Nicole Seiler 2012 creation

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Credits and Support ___________________________________________________________________

Concept and choreography Nicole Seiler Performance and choreography Krassen Krastev, Mike Winter Technique Vincent Deblue Costumes Cécile Delanoë Text and voice-over Séverine Skierski Administration Cristina Martinoni Tour management mm – Michaël Monney

Duration 40 min

Coproduction Festival de la Cité Lausanne, Cie Nicole Seiler Supported by Ville de Lausanne, Etat de Vaud, Pro Helvetia ___________________________________________________________________

Press ___________________________________________________________________ […]Nicole Seiler enchants us with the quality she proposes as she opens up new perspectives on multimedia art. Some times rattlesnakes and some times suns, since tuesday Mike Winter and Krassen Krastev, two dancers of undeniable charism, try to express the gestures as read out-loud by clumsy yet captivated audience members. The two dancers perform in duo, by way of microphones and interposed screens, on the slippery slope of the virtual transmission of dance. The result? A rare complicity and cohesion which enables them to dance together, Mike in Lausanne, Krassen elsewhere. Overcoming the communication based complications due to internet bugs and a faulty Skype connection, they know from experience that the language of contemporary dance is complex, but also so human. The spirited questioning on the part of the choreographer Nicole Seiler reveals her depth and seriousness. Corinne Jacquiery – Journal du Fesvial de la Cité – Saturday 14 july 2012

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Un acte sérieux (A serious act) ___________________________________________________________________ This interactive performance reveals the infinite strata of the language of dance. To dance, is to absent oneself from articulated language. A vocabulary, however precise, is inadequate to describe the unicity of a gesture. To describe dance, and thereby transmit it, is of the order of the inexpressible and perhaps even the impossible. Nicole Seiler, the Lausanne based choreographer, questions the very serious act that is the description of dance by way of a performance that is both playful and interactive. Un acte sérieux (A serious act) puts two dancers on stage with the help of the audience. While dancer Mike Winter executes certain movements on stage, an audience member will try to describe his gestures to Krassen Krastev, another dancer positioned in a studio some kilometers away. Filmed by a webcam, transmitted through Skype and projected on a large screen, this latter will try to reconstitute the movements as faithfully as possible in an intriguing confrontation between the real and the virtual.

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Nicole Seiler – Curriculum Vitae (choreographer, video artist) Avenue de Morges 159 1004 Lausanne info@nicoleseiler.com Born in 1970 in Zürich, Switzerland. Education 1992/1994 Ecole-Atelier Rudra Béjart, Lausanne, Suisse 1991/1992 Vlaamse Dansacademie, Brugge, Belgique 1990/1991 Scuola Teatro Dimitri, Verscio, Suisse 1990 Maturité type B à Immensee, Suisse

Projects 2012 Small explosion with glass and repeat echo, dance performance for 2 dancers, 70 min. Un acte sérieux, dance and multimedia performance for 2 dancers, 40 min. Installation pour En Corps, multimedia installation 2011 Amauros, dance performance for 4 dancers 2010 Tinizong, dance and multimedia performance, 30 min. Playback, dance and multimedia performance, 65 min. 2008 Living-room dancers, show/outdoor performances and film, duration varies Ningyo, solo dance and multimedia performance, 60 min. 2007 K Two, performance after the character of Madame K, 15 min. Je m’appelle…, solo dance and multimedia performance, 11 min. 2006 Pixel Babes, dance and multimedia performance for 3 dancers, 64 min. 4 clips pour aufnahmen, 4 video clips 10 min. Smok, choreographic video installation 2005 Dolls / Dolls live, installation and performances, duration varies Lui, solo dance and multimedia performance, 35 min. 2004 One in a million, choreographic video, 10 min. Madame K, solo dance and multimedia performance, 45 min. 2002 Quoi?, dance and multimedia performance for 2 dancers, 2002, 30 min.) Since 2004 la Cie Nicole Seiler has toured internationally. Distinctions 2009 Prix Culturel Vaudois pour la Danse 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland 2008 « Mention spécial du jury » for the two clips in the series 4 clips pour aufnahmen, plug-play and

devant-avant at the Festival IL COREOGRAFO ELETTRONICO in Napoli, Italia 2007 Bourse Leenaards, Lausanne, Switzerland 2007 « 3ème prix » for the 4 clips pour aufnahmen and One in a million at Festival Tapias in Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil

Collaborations 2009 Notre-Dame des Hirondelles, co-staged with Fabrice Gorgerat and creation video, Le Petit Théâtre,

Lausanne. Tour in Switzerland. 2009 - 2010 Kra, Compagnie Konzentrat, Warsaw, Poland. Artistic collaboration. International tour.

As a performer 2009 – 2012 You can speak, you’re an animal, Massimo Furlan, Lausanne. International tour. 2009 Live me love me et Make noise, be a girl, Massimo Furlan, Lausanne. Creation at the Scène Nationale

du Merlan, Marseille, France. 2008 Requiem, Velma, Lausanne. Replacement for tour. 2004 Escucha mi cantar, Alias Cie, Geneva, choreography by Guilherme Botelho. Replacement for tour. 2003 Lola la Loca, Cie Buissonnière, Lausanne, choreography by Cisco Aznar. Replacement for tour. 2003 – 2008 Le poids des éponges, Alias Cie, Geneva, choreography by Guilherme Botelho. International tour. 2002 Dintjan, Cie Philippe Saire, Lausanne. Creation for Expo02. 1998 – 2001 Noces de Sang by F.G. Lorca and Les Bacchantes after Euripides, Teatro Malandro, staged by Omar

Porras. International tour. 1994 – 1997 El Tango Loco, Petits Métrages, Eléonore et Léonard, Tom’s Walz, Le Crime, Cie Buissonnière,

choreography by Philippe Lizon. International tour. Multimédia Formation autodidacte since 2000. Creation of photos and video projections for many different dance and theater companies.

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Contact _________________________________________________________________________

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www.nicoleseiler.com