SARA LANNER
Trailer 2024, 0:35 min.
In WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES, choreographer Sara Lanner examines the way spaces and infrastructures inform, empower, or restrict us. Based on their highly varying personal backgrounds, three female performers go out searching for answers to the question of where they have encountered infrastructures as spaces of support, protection, or power – and where they show in their personalities. They react to social and ecological crises of the present, and they shed light on matters of care and social equity.
There are so many different ways to make infrastructures. They facilitate or prevent interaction or access to resources. They regulate the lives of individuals, groups, milieus, and nations. They shape their rituals, standards, or laws, creating hierarchies and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES, three women of different backgrounds disrupt surfaces, transforming places, structures, and, by extension, their own stories into new spaces and emotional landscapes while dancing loudly or whispering quietly. The three performers look for social equity in public, personal, and commercial spaces. They make invisible processes visible, and the demonstrate how the power of infrastructures facilitates various environments and gets inscribed into bodies. What happens when personal infrastructure becomes political? When, as in Elon Musk’s Starlink project, satellites orbit Earth, visible on the starlit sky?
The three women take the audience back into their pasts, they travel even to the outer space of the future, to eventually ask how we can subvert social conventions and their power structures to create change? Infrastructure is always about resources and global economies. How do we shape our environment? Who or what profits from that? And how can we achieve the ideal world we have so far only dreamt about?
A co-production by Living Examples and brut Wien. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Premiere: January 19, 2024, brut Vienna
saralanner.at
@saralanner
There are so many different ways to make infrastructures. They facilitate or prevent interaction or access to resources. They regulate the lives of individuals, groups, milieus, and nations. They shape their rituals, standards, or laws, creating hierarchies and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES, three women of different backgrounds disrupt surfaces, transforming places, structures, and, by extension, their own stories into new spaces and emotional landscapes while dancing loudly or whispering quietly. The three performers look for social equity in public, personal, and commercial spaces. They make invisible processes visible, and the demonstrate how the power of infrastructures facilitates various environments and gets inscribed into bodies. What happens when personal infrastructure becomes political? When, as in Elon Musk’s Starlink project, satellites orbit Earth, visible on the starlit sky?
The three women take the audience back into their pasts, they travel even to the outer space of the future, to eventually ask how we can subvert social conventions and their power structures to create change? Infrastructure is always about resources and global economies. How do we shape our environment? Who or what profits from that? And how can we achieve the ideal world we have so far only dreamt about?
A co-production by Living Examples and brut Wien. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Premiere: January 19, 2024, brut Vienna
saralanner.at
@saralanner
