PERFORMANCES
MÆR - TALES ABOUT SHADOW AND LIGHT
artistic research & performance with dance and live music (work-in-progress)
2024
Photos: Alex Schröder
This project explores the meaning of fairy tales for us humans.
More info coming soon!
A short impression during a residency in August 2024 at CLOUD/danslab, The Hague.
Choreography, dance: Oona Minoo
Inspired by "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen
Music: Lukas Lauermann
FRAU MIT FLÜGEL (DE) / VROUW MET VLEUGEL (NL)
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, Joana Karácsonyi
DATES:
May 28th 2022 at Splendor, Amsterdam
August 12th 2022 at Kultursommer, Vienna
October 10th 2022 at Porgy & Bess, Vienna
April 30th 2023 at Kulturcafé Max, Vienna
April 28th 2024 at Amare, The Hague
May 11th 2024 at Villa North, Millstatt
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
2022
Concept, 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
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.
