Composites is a multidisciplinary dance performance, choreographed and performed by Ramona Sekulovic, investigating what it means to be present. What constitutes presence in both a performer and the audience? How is a performer's presence intimately related to technique? And how can audience and performer have a successful experience and communicate with each other via an artistic presentation? Composites is the outcome of a research process that is heavily influenced by the Feldenkrais Method, a source of Sekulovic’s artistic practice. But Composites is also the product of a dance practice that is intertwined with the experience of dancing while aging. Composites was created in close connection to Philip Glass’ Piano Etudes, which he initially wrote as a means to improve his personal piano play. The compositions caught the interest of Sekulovic who decided to investigate her own body in a similar fashion, using the act of choreography to improve technique. In a time, when our physical self-image and relationship to ourselves is strongly influenced by media, Composites brings the attention back to the body. It further introduces the audience into the creative process of a dance work and let’s viewers experience movement first-hand through sensorial explorations.

Composites 

Etudes For Piano by Philip Glass © 1999 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission.

Choreography, Text, Performance: Ramona Sekulovic

Sound und Video Design: Dusan Sekulovic

Humans Are Here, Too is a dance documentary, that will be screened ahead of the Saturday performance of Composites. The film, shot in Studio 5 at City Center New York in 2012, stimulated the work on Composites. It centers around teacher and choreographer Zvi Gotheiner’s ballet class, and offers an experiential view on the factors and processes involved that allow dancers to be "in the moment" and fully present in dance. The film contains interviews with Zvi, the pianist and composer Scott Killian, as well as a multigenerational cast of dancers embedded in a visual exploration of place and space via the medium of film.