Michael Laub
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Michael Laub is a renowned avant-garde
stage director and contemporary dance
choreographer. His work has been shown around the world, notably at the Venice Biennale
of 1984, the Universal Exposition Seville Expo '92
, and the Festival d'Avignon
of 2005. He has often been described as a minimalist and "one of the founding fathers of anti-illusionist theater".
, founding and co-directing Maniac Productions with Edmundo Za. Their work was referred to as innovative; mixing Performance art
and Video installation
. Genevieve van Cauwenberge observed that the performances "are in fact polyvalent and difficult to classify. They make use of everything at once, combining their specific language
, stage direction, plastic arts (Minimal Art), musical composition (repetitive sampling) body language (Body Art
), Happening (intervention of hazard) and of course the electronic video
image."
With the founding of Remote Control Productions in 1981, Michael Laub proceeded to take his work somewhat closer to theater. Influenced by various forms, ranging from soap operas to classic literature and dance
, his output as director of Remote Control Productions currently stands at over twenty plays. In what is perhaps something of an oversimplification of his extensive body of work, one can divide the material by three thematic approaches; the musical
(Rough, Solo, Daniel and the Dancers, Total Masala Slammer); classic literature (Frank Wedekind
's Lulu, Frankula, The Hans Christian Andersen
Project); and portrait
work (Portraits 360 Seconds, Out of Sorts, Alone/Gregoire, and The Biography Remix with Marina Abramović
). One constant, since Rewind Song in 1989, has been the collaboration between Remote Control Productions and musician Larry Steinbachek, formerly of the band Bronski Beat
.
Many theater critics have noted the conventions-challenging nature of Laub's work. When reviewing Daniel and the Dancers one writer commented that "the theatrical illusion has been destroyed, and what is happening on stage is simply a new reality." Deconstructing theater, finding novel ways in which to reconfigure the elements of a performance, is what fascinates and distinguishes this artist. A review pertaining to the same piece in the Danish newspaper Politiken
attributes a certain violence to this theatrical approach. "This is masterful comedy," writes Monna Dithmer, "-served by the Laub diva Charlotte Engelkes-and a masterclass in the Laub technique, the aim of which is to smash the whole theatre process into bits and pieces and display them in all their naked glory."
It was only in the mid nineties, and in particular with the success of the play Rough, that Michael Laub/Remote Control Productions garnered international recognition. As a result the ensuing works became more elaborate in scope and far-reaching in audience. An example of this was Laub's play Total Masala Slammer/Heartbreak No. 5 (2001), in which six months of research in India brought his fascination with Bollywood
, Kathak
dance and music into a synthesis with Goethe and Western contemporary live art
forms. The H.C. Andersen Project (2003) was another ambitious project that used a multitude of biographical and literary interpretations in exploring Laub’s take on the famous Danish subject. The Austrian daily Der Standard
lauded the resulting mash-up, stating the play’s "masterful blend of condensed fairytales, biographical notes, and exquisitely transfigured personae from Andersen’s universe is achieved through clarity of dramatic structure, the lightness of the 'show' form, the outstanding dancers and performers, and the subtle music of Larry Steinbachek".
Between the large-scale productions of Total Masala Slammer and The H.C. Andersen Project, Laub directed Portraits 360 Sek at Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus
in 2002. This was an undertaking which would spur his long-standing fascination with the applications of portraiture in theater to evolve. Having experienced success with solo portraits (Solo with Charlotte Engelkes, and Out of Sorts with Richard Crane), Laub began, with Portraits 360 Sek to extend the idea to a collective performance, and in time, a serialized concept.
For the Laub portrait of the performance artist Marina Abramović
in The Biography Remix (2004-’05), content called for a multi-layered format; “One moment you are watching the young Abramović on video, the next Abramović played by one of her young students, then Abramović in the flesh”, but the object remained grounded in a very direct approach. While one critic noted that “above all one remembers authentic emotion, which culminated in the final glimpse of a smile from the artist. It is beautiful, very beautiful; terribly intimate; and perfectly universal.” Libération
concluded that "The Remix is generally as disturbing as it is moving". A quality one would anticipate, even aspire to, in a performance chronicling the life and work of an artist who has spent decades pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional endurance.
360 Sek and the ensuing Portrait Series projects (there have been five to date) eschew almost all theatrics and strip the performer’s role down to oftentimes uncomfortably intimate biographical details. “By linking the unstructured with the well-calculated, the director subtly conveys to the audience some idea of those elements of which theatre is composed: exuberance and effort, yearning and application, happiness and fear. Yet because the individual portraits are so direct, as an exercise in vanity this self-portraiture remains modest. The quietly non-intentional gets the same six short minutes as the noisily exhibitionist, and that is why, in the final resort, the theatre emerges victorious as a powerhouse of the imagination as opposed to a factory of personalities.” The focus is on realism and authenticity. This is made all the more evident with Laub often favoring non-professionals for these projects, as their untrained stage personae are all the more vulnerable and raw.
The Portrait Series have proven popular, in part due to the concept’s adaptability. From a theoretical point of view, The Portrait Series is an endeavor wherein he tests theater’s global vocabulary. The idea being that virtually any entity comprising interesting characters can be formatted by Laub for a Portrait Series show. The latest such venue to have solicited a Portrait Series is Vienna’s Burgtheater
.
He opened 2010 with the highly personal, original composition Death, Dance and some Talk in Berlin (February), followed by Portrait Series Istanbul (April–May), Portrait Series Rotterdam (September), and working on the Burgporträts at the Burgtheater
, Vienna.
In addition to his stage-work, Laub has held several guest professorships (at the University of Glessen, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Norwegian Theatre Academy), and is now taking up residency at HfG Karlsruhe in 2011.
Avant Tehran, De Appel
, Amsterdam
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
stage director and contemporary dance
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...
choreographer. His work has been shown around the world, notably at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
of 1984, the Universal Exposition Seville Expo '92
Seville Expo '92
The Universal Exposition of Seville took place from Monday, April 20 to Monday, October 12, 1992 on La Isla de La Cartuja , Seville, Spain. The theme for the Expo was "The Age of Discovery" and over 100 countries were represented...
, and the Festival d'Avignon
Festival d'Avignon
The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest...
of 2005. He has often been described as a minimalist and "one of the founding fathers of anti-illusionist theater".
Career
Laub's career in the arts began in the mid-1970s when based in StockholmStockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, founding and co-directing Maniac Productions with Edmundo Za. Their work was referred to as innovative; mixing Performance art
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
and Video installation
Video installation
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has increased in popularity as digital video production...
. Genevieve van Cauwenberge observed that the performances "are in fact polyvalent and difficult to classify. They make use of everything at once, combining their specific language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
, stage direction, plastic arts (Minimal Art), musical composition (repetitive sampling) body language (Body Art
Body art
Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping , full body tattoo and body painting.More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation...
), Happening (intervention of hazard) and of course the electronic video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
image."
With the founding of Remote Control Productions in 1981, Michael Laub proceeded to take his work somewhat closer to theater. Influenced by various forms, ranging from soap operas to classic literature and dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, his output as director of Remote Control Productions currently stands at over twenty plays. In what is perhaps something of an oversimplification of his extensive body of work, one can divide the material by three thematic approaches; the musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
(Rough, Solo, Daniel and the Dancers, Total Masala Slammer); classic literature (Frank Wedekind
Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...
's Lulu, Frankula, The Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
Project); and portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
work (Portraits 360 Seconds, Out of Sorts, Alone/Gregoire, and The Biography Remix with Marina Abramović
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
). One constant, since Rewind Song in 1989, has been the collaboration between Remote Control Productions and musician Larry Steinbachek, formerly of the band Bronski Beat
Bronski Beat
Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy". All members of the group were openly homosexual and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues...
.
Many theater critics have noted the conventions-challenging nature of Laub's work. When reviewing Daniel and the Dancers one writer commented that "the theatrical illusion has been destroyed, and what is happening on stage is simply a new reality." Deconstructing theater, finding novel ways in which to reconfigure the elements of a performance, is what fascinates and distinguishes this artist. A review pertaining to the same piece in the Danish newspaper Politiken
Politiken
Politiken is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies ....
attributes a certain violence to this theatrical approach. "This is masterful comedy," writes Monna Dithmer, "-served by the Laub diva Charlotte Engelkes-and a masterclass in the Laub technique, the aim of which is to smash the whole theatre process into bits and pieces and display them in all their naked glory."
It was only in the mid nineties, and in particular with the success of the play Rough, that Michael Laub/Remote Control Productions garnered international recognition. As a result the ensuing works became more elaborate in scope and far-reaching in audience. An example of this was Laub's play Total Masala Slammer/Heartbreak No. 5 (2001), in which six months of research in India brought his fascination with Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
, Kathak
Kathak
Kathak is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dances, originated from Uttar Pradesh, India. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers...
dance and music into a synthesis with Goethe and Western contemporary live art
Live Art
Live Art is the fifth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and their first non-studio album. It was recorded live at various concerts between 1992 and 1996 and features ten guest musicians....
forms. The H.C. Andersen Project (2003) was another ambitious project that used a multitude of biographical and literary interpretations in exploring Laub’s take on the famous Danish subject. The Austrian daily Der Standard
Der Standard
Der Standard is an Austrian national daily newspaper which is published in Vienna . It was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and the first edition was published on 1988-10-19...
lauded the resulting mash-up, stating the play’s "masterful blend of condensed fairytales, biographical notes, and exquisitely transfigured personae from Andersen’s universe is achieved through clarity of dramatic structure, the lightness of the 'show' form, the outstanding dancers and performers, and the subtle music of Larry Steinbachek".
Between the large-scale productions of Total Masala Slammer and The H.C. Andersen Project, Laub directed Portraits 360 Sek at Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus
Deutsches Schauspielhaus
The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. With a capacity for 1192 spectators, it places it as Germany's largest theatre...
in 2002. This was an undertaking which would spur his long-standing fascination with the applications of portraiture in theater to evolve. Having experienced success with solo portraits (Solo with Charlotte Engelkes, and Out of Sorts with Richard Crane), Laub began, with Portraits 360 Sek to extend the idea to a collective performance, and in time, a serialized concept.
For the Laub portrait of the performance artist Marina Abramović
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
in The Biography Remix (2004-’05), content called for a multi-layered format; “One moment you are watching the young Abramović on video, the next Abramović played by one of her young students, then Abramović in the flesh”, but the object remained grounded in a very direct approach. While one critic noted that “above all one remembers authentic emotion, which culminated in the final glimpse of a smile from the artist. It is beautiful, very beautiful; terribly intimate; and perfectly universal.” Libération
Libération
Libération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...
concluded that "The Remix is generally as disturbing as it is moving". A quality one would anticipate, even aspire to, in a performance chronicling the life and work of an artist who has spent decades pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional endurance.
360 Sek and the ensuing Portrait Series projects (there have been five to date) eschew almost all theatrics and strip the performer’s role down to oftentimes uncomfortably intimate biographical details. “By linking the unstructured with the well-calculated, the director subtly conveys to the audience some idea of those elements of which theatre is composed: exuberance and effort, yearning and application, happiness and fear. Yet because the individual portraits are so direct, as an exercise in vanity this self-portraiture remains modest. The quietly non-intentional gets the same six short minutes as the noisily exhibitionist, and that is why, in the final resort, the theatre emerges victorious as a powerhouse of the imagination as opposed to a factory of personalities.” The focus is on realism and authenticity. This is made all the more evident with Laub often favoring non-professionals for these projects, as their untrained stage personae are all the more vulnerable and raw.
The Portrait Series have proven popular, in part due to the concept’s adaptability. From a theoretical point of view, The Portrait Series is an endeavor wherein he tests theater’s global vocabulary. The idea being that virtually any entity comprising interesting characters can be formatted by Laub for a Portrait Series show. The latest such venue to have solicited a Portrait Series is Vienna’s Burgtheater
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
.
He opened 2010 with the highly personal, original composition Death, Dance and some Talk in Berlin (February), followed by Portrait Series Istanbul (April–May), Portrait Series Rotterdam (September), and working on the Burgporträts at the Burgtheater
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
, Vienna.
In addition to his stage-work, Laub has held several guest professorships (at the University of Glessen, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Norwegian Theatre Academy), and is now taking up residency at HfG Karlsruhe in 2011.
Maniac Productions
- 1975
Maniac Productions, Narren Teater, Stockholm
- 1976
Enfantillage, Fylkingen Center for Intermedia, Stockholm
Paralysed Infancy in Repetitive Structure, De AppelDe AppelDe Appel is an internationally focused contemporary arts centre, located in Amsterdam. Since it was founded, the goal of de Appel is to function as a stage for research and presentation of visual arts. Exhibitions, publications and discursive events are the main activities of de Appel. In 1994...
, Amsterdam
Avant Tehran, De Appel
De Appel
De Appel is an internationally focused contemporary arts centre, located in Amsterdam. Since it was founded, the goal of de Appel is to function as a stage for research and presentation of visual arts. Exhibitions, publications and discursive events are the main activities of de Appel. In 1994...
, Amsterdam
- 1977
Mouse in Repetitive Structure, Avant Tehran Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam
Lily is going to have a baby, Fylkingen Center for Intermedia, Stockholm
Infection/Love Tape I, Video Festival, Fylkingen, Stockholm
- 1978
Tragico Intervallo, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
Tragico Intervallo II, Arteferia Post Avant-Garde Theater Festival, Bologna
Maniac Productions II, Mickery, Amsterdam
I closed the window and I went out for dinner, Folkwang Museum, Essen/Galerie Neu, Aachen
Hotel Life (a 12-hour live video exhibition in 12 hotel rooms), Museumzicht Hotel, Amsterdam
Untitled Video Performance, International Performance Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
- 1979
Dinner Somewhere and then Back to my room RTBF Television http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTBF (French), Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne/Theatre Populaire de Wallonie, Lieg
Chap Tapes I, Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp
- 1980
Chap Tapes II, Mickery, Amsterdam
Remote Control Productions
- 1981
Snapping, Computing and Performing
Kulturhuset, Stockholm
- 1982
White Out
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- 1984
Return of Sensation
XXXII Biennale di Venezia http://www.labiennale.org/en/
Kulturhuset, Stockholm
International Theatre Festival, Copenhagen, June 1985
- 1987
Pressure
Kulturhuset, Stockholm
- 1989
Rewind Song
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, February
6th Bergen International Theatre Festival, Norway
- 1991
Fast Forward/ Bad Air und so...
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, February
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, February
Bergen International Theatre, April
Touch Time Festival, Mickery, Amsterdam, May
Kaaitheater, Brussels, June
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, June
- 1992
Jack's Travelogue/La Prison des Femmes
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, May
Teatro Central, Seville Expo '92Seville Expo '92The Universal Exposition of Seville took place from Monday, April 20 to Monday, October 12, 1992 on La Isla de La Cartuja , Seville, Spain. The theme for the Expo was "The Age of Discovery" and over 100 countries were represented...
, June
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, August
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, October
Kaaitheater/Theatre 140, Brussels, November
- 1994
Rough
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, January
Teatergarasjen, Bergen, January
Springdance, Utrecht, April
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, April
Szene, Salzburg, July
Internationales Sommer Theater Festival, Hamburg, July
Theatre 140/ Charleroi Danse, Brussels, November
Nordisk Scenekunst Festival, Arhus, April
Europaisches Festival Schlossfestspiele, Schwerin, June
Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, July
Hebbel Theater (German), Berlin, August
- 1994-'96
Daniel and the Dancers
Frascati, Amsterdam, October, 1994
Monty, Antwerpen, January, 1995
Lantaren, Rotterdam, January, 1995
Schouwburg, Tilburg, January, 1995
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, February, 1995
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, February, 1996
Hebbel Theater (German), Berlin, March 1996
Kanon Hallen, Copenhagen, March 1996
- 1995-'96
Solo with Charlotte Engelkes
Spielart, Munich, October 1995
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, February 1996
Hebbel Theater (German), Berlin, May 1996
Szene, Salzburg, July 1996
Monty, Antwerp, October 1996
Schouwburg, Tilburg, October 1996
Kulturhuset Arhus, November 1996
- 1997-'98
Planet Lulu
Kulturhus Arhus, March 1997
Springdance, Utrecht, April 1997
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, May 1997
Hebbel Theater (German), Berlin, May 1997
Szene, Salzburg, July 1997
Zürcher Theater SpektakelZürcher Theater SpektakelThe Zürcher Theater Spektakel is an international theatre and performing arts festival, held annually each summer in Zürich, Switzerland. First held in 1980,...
, Zurich, September 1997
Kampnagel, Hamburg, September 1997
Grand Theater, Groningen, September 1997
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, October 1997
Schouwburg, Tilburg, October 1997
Pusterviksteatern, Gotheborg, October 1998
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, October 1998
- 1998-'99
Frankula
Grand Theatre, Groningen, August 1998
TANZtheaterInternational, Hanover, September 1998
Frascati, Amsterdam, September 1998
Schouwburg, Tilburg, February 1999
Hebbel Theater (German), February/March 1999
Szene, Salzburg, July 1999
- 1999-2000
Out of Sorts
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, April 1999
Grand Theatre, Groningen, April 1999
Szene, Salzburg, July 1999
Expo, Hanover, September 1999
Schouwburg, Tilburg, October 1999
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, February 2000
- 2000-'03
Pigg in Hell
Tanz im August, Berlin, 2000
Podewil, Berlin, 2001
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, 2001
off limits Festival, Dortmund, 2001
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 2001
euro-scene, Leipzig, 2001
Tramway, Glasgow, 2002
Impulstanz, Vienna, 2002
Tanzwerkstatt, Munich, 2002
Zuercher Theaterspektakel, 2002
Four Days in Motion, 6th International Theater Festival, Prague, 2002
cutting edge, Staatstheater Darmstadt, 2003
- 2001-'02
Total Masala Slammer/Heartbreak No. 5
Tanz im August, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, 2001
Archa Theater, Prague, 2001
Zuercher Theater Spektakel, 2001
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 2001
Szene, Salzburg, 2002
Impulstanz, Vienna, 2002
Melbourne Festival, 2002
- 2002
Portraits 360 Sek
Deutsches Schauspielhaus(German) Hamburg, 2002
- 2003
The H.C. Andersen Project- Tales and Costumes
Zeurcher Theater Spektakel,2003
Hebbel Theater (German), Berlin, 2003
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 2003
Exodus Festival, Cankargev Dom, Ljubljana, 2004
Dance, Munich, 2004
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, 2005
Rencontre Choreographique de Seine St. Denis, 2005
- 2004-'05
The Biography Remix with Marina AbramovićMarina AbramovicMarina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
Romaeuropa, Rome, 2004
Festival d'AvignonFestival d'AvignonThe Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest...
, 2005
- 2004
Alone
Zuercher Theater Spektakel, Zurich
- 2004-'09
Portrait Series: Alone/Gregoire
Deutsches Schauspielhaus(German) Hamburg, 2004
De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, 2004
Tanz im August, Internationales Tanzfest Berlin, 2005
Tanzquartier, Vienna, 2005
Mousonturm, Frankfurt, 2006
Rencontre Choreographique de Seine St. Denis, 2006
Festival d'Otono, Madrid, 2007
Sommer Szene, Salzburg, July 8–9, 2009
- 2007–present
Portrait Series Berlin. Professional and Non-Professional Dancers/Marching Series (work in progress)
Tanz im August, Internationales Tanzfest Berlin, 2007
Zuercher Theater Spektakel, 2007
Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 2007
- 2008
Bruce and More
Heli Meklin & Michael Laub
Moving in November Festival, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, November
- 2010
Death, Dance and Some Talk
Sophiensaele, Berlin, February 23–27
Portrait Series Istanbul: Aspiring Actresses, and Actresses.
Garajistanbul, April 28–30, May 6–8
Kulturhauptstadt Europas RUHR.Favoriten, Essen, November 26–28
Portrait Series Rotterdam
Lantern/Venster (Schouwburg Internationale Keuze Festival), September 15–19
- 2011
Portrait Series/Burgportäts
Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria.
External links
- Website of Michael Laub's Remote Control Productions (http://www.michael-laub.com)
- Video of Total Masala Slammer/Heartbreak No. 5 (http://www.impulstanz.com/gallery/videos/rmf9/