AMDaT, featuring Norwegian dancer Einy Aam, is an outdoor dance-video performance and installation, inspired by Iraqi artists. In New York, July 18-21.
7/17/2007 :: AMDaT, Inc. presents a re-mounting and expansion of blast wall art – an outdoor dance and video performance/installation inspired by non-violent subversive acts by Iraqi artists. Blast wall art takes participants on a journey, converting a generic city environment into a nether world of vigorous physicality and, in time, into one of fantastic colour and beauty. Featuring direction, choreography and video by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Andrea Haenggi, performed by her Dance Company AMDaT, guest dancers and live percussive music by William Hooker (July 18/19) and Lukas Ligeti (July 20/21).
Andrea Haenggi’s inspiration for blast wall art is her reaction to the work of Iraqi artists who paint beautiful murals
on the protective walls built by the American military in Baghdad. Haenggi’s work uses the environment of the
site, the language of the body, the illusion of video and the strength of percussive music to reflect on this
compelling reality. “I was looking for an environment that I could use to reflect the energy and dynamic of the
concrete blast walls in Iraq. This desolate concrete handball court felt like the perfect place.”
This FREE event will take place Wed-Sat, July 18-21, 2007 at 8:00pm. Audience Meeting Point is: BRIDGE
PARK 1 in DUMBO (on Jay Street, just up the hill from the F train to York Street – first stop in Brooklyn).
Reservations are encouraged: (718) 218 8236 or rsvp@amdat.org
Einy Aam received her BA (Hons) from London Contemporary Dance School in 2001, and has worked with AMDaT since March 2004. While in New York she has also performed for Noemie Lafrance in two productions of the Bessie Award winning Descent (2002 and 2003) and in Noir (2004). In Norway, she recently choreographed and performed for the musical concert Tree of Tenderness by composer Magnar Aam, and has also collaborated with Torill Haugen on the dance films "From Dust till Dawn" and "Here, in the Resurrection" and is featured in Marco Ruffatti's dance film "Linescapes v.! Norway."