OWN WORK
FRAU MIT FLÜGEL (NL: VROUW MET VLEUGEL)
a piece for and with piano
Fledging means
leaving the old familiar
and to dare something new.
How does it feel to leave your own nest? To go your own way? To show yourself to others? To wish for something and be afraid of it at the same time?
Cautiously, curiously and playfully, the performer approaches her piano and the audience. A hiding place, a child, a cave, a dance partner, a grand piano, a woman. Shapes and images emerge and transform continuously.
Piano music, language, dance and movement theatre merge into a personal piece about the courage to show oneself and the longing for connectetness.
»Performing alone with a black piano in front of a curious crowd is a challenge. Oona Minoo masters it courageously, with charm and stage presence.«
(Ditta Rudle-Tanzschrift)
»Frau mit Flügel is not only original in its artistic idea, but also convinces with interesting dramaturgical decisions and deliberately chosen stylistic devices.«
(Hanne Pilgrim-pianist/performer)
2022
Concept, composition, piano, performance: Oona Minoo
Photos: Maarten Fox
DATES:
May 28th 2022 at Splendor, Amsterdam
August 12th 2022 at Kultursommer Wien, Vienna
October 10th 2022 at Porgy & Bess, Vienna
April 30th 2023 at Kulturcafé Max, Vienna
BEING & BECOMING/dance performance with live music
“You say you gonna change this world, but this world changes you.
When did it all start? With the egg from which you emerged?
Have you really ever been a blank slate?”
Lyrics from the music to Being & Becoming
How did we actually become what we are today? Were we different yesterday?
Can being be at all without becoming and vice versa? And is it possible to transform into someone or something completely different?
A dancer, a musician, a space. Like an ecosystem where each element influences the others. Like human beings in their environment, who are a part of it, even if they may not always be aware of it. Is the dancer moved by the musician? Or the other way around?
Organic, almost imperceptible, then again powerful and explosive. Movements grow from sounds and sounds from movements. They are constantly transforming, adapting and reinventing themselves. The result is a dialogue between dancer and musician. Between movement, image and sound. Between being and becoming. An infinite metamorphosis.
2022
Artistic director, choreography, performance: Oona Minoo
Live electronics: Maria Solberger
Music: Maria Solberger, Oona Minoo
Costume: Claire Chatel
Projections: TextilTanz
Photos: Theo Bartenberger
DATES:
June 17th 2022 at CLOUD/danslab, The Hague
June 26th 2022 at Reaktor, Vienna
TRACKS/dance video & photo serie
Tracks we carry. Tracks we follow. Tracks we leave behind.
No past without future. No future without past.
Engraved and interwoven.
No ending. No beginning. An infinite thread.
TextilTanz 2020
Dance improvisation, music: Oona Minoo
Costume: Claire Chatel
Photos: Linnéa Jänen
LAST HUMAN SOLO/dance video & photo serie
Metamorphosis can be slowly. But also, sudden and explosive.
Originally a part of the dance performance “Being & Becoming”, “Last Human Solo” became its own independent format, shifting the stage into an open air scenery with another original costume.
TextilTanz 2020
Dance: Oona Minoo
Music: Maria Solberger
Costume: Claire Chatel
Photos: Linnéa Jänen
LAYER BY LAYER/ artistic research project
This project started with an intensive movement research about the sensation/imagination of anatomical “layers” of the body (skin, muscles, fascia, bones etc.) and its relationship to movement (qualities). During the following residencies at CLOUD/danslab and Espace des possibles, Claire Chatel (costume, stage design) and Oona Minoo (movement research, music), experimented with sound and textile materials, connecting other kinds of layers to the developed movement material. In the last research periode, the interaction between body, movement and material was the main focus of research and was then formed into choreographic scenes, which were presented at CLOUD/danslab.
The rich artistic material that came out of this research project inspired TextilTanz to develop the following wor: Being & Becoming, Last Human Solo and Tracks as well as the composition and artistic video Sous ma peau.
Skin as a border between the inner and the outer world.
The most intimate human cover. As the outermost envelope. The closest contact point to our surroundings.
Skin covers the many layers of the body,
interwowen and engraved with memories and stories.
At the presentation at CLOUD/danslab.
This video was created during the residency at Espace des possibles.
TextilTanz 2019-2020
Movement research, choreography, dance: Oona Minoo
Textile research, costume, stage design: Claire Chatel
Residencies at: CLOUD/danslab,
The Hague, Espace des possibles, Royan
Photos: Ralph Luzon, TextilTanz
Experimenting with movement and textile material in Royan and The Hague.
WINDSTEIN/movement research & photo serie
How can textile material and movement influence each other? What kind of movement possibilities does a certain material have to offer? How does movement change the shape and meaning of a textile object? What new pictures and stories can arise during the interaction between movement and material?
About TextilTanz: Claire Chatel (designer, textile artist) and Oona Minoo (dancer, choreographer) cofounded this collective in 2018 to research about the connection and possibilities of movement and textile art. Their projects often have video formats as well as stage performances and photo series in cooperation with Linnéa Jänen.
TextilTanz 2018
Movement research, music: Oona Minoo
Textile design & video: Claire Chatel
Photos: Linnéa Jänen
P.O.M./music video
2018
Music, choreography: Oona Minoo
Dance: Carla Schuler, Oona Minoo
Video: Alina Huber
Photos: Maarten Fox
