After Trio A | Andrea Božić

After Trio A
Originally: Trio A, 1966, Yvonne Rainer | No Manifesto, 1965, Yvonne Rainer | A Manifesto Reconsidered, 2008, Yvonne Rainer

NO to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe.
After Trio A is based on Yvonne Rainer’s minimal dance piece Trio A and the No Manifesto written alongside of it. Trio A reduced dance to its essentials and is considered one of the beginnings of postmodern dance. Yvonne Rainer turned the then current conventions of dance and the perception of body upside down, saying ‘dance is hard to see’. After Trio A is not a re-staging of Trio A but a dialogue with it. Two dancers are asked to learn a part of the original Trio A phrase live on stage, without any previous knowledge of it. They do it in front of the audience, learning from a recording of the original piece played on a TV monitor, within the course of one hour. The audience observes the learning process: watching becomes learning, learning becomes virtuosity, task-like activity becomes a dance, knowledge becomes power, history becomes present, body becomes political, the non-spectacular becomes strangely spectacular.

A production of Frascati Productions and ICKamsterdam, commissioned by and in co-production with COVER #2.

concept/choreography Andrea Božić
video/concept Julia Willms
music and sound installation Robert Pravda
dance Dereck Cayla and Neda Hadji-Mirzaei or Christian Guerematchi and Michael Jahoda
lighting design Henk Danner
After Trio is a production of Frascati Productions and the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK), commissioned by and in co-production with COVER #2.

Download here the After No Manifesto.