Loïe Fuller: Research

EVENT DESCRIPTION

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels co-presents with French May Arts Festival and M+ Loïe Fuller: Research by Ola Maciejewska as part of a Dance Festival in Hong Kong.

Ola Maciejewska’s first solo performance, Loïe Fuller: Research, reprises the famous Serpentine Dances invented by the American dancer, a controversial figure in Western dance: merging movement with special effects, she would transform into a flame, a rippling sea and other natural phenomena through the use of long swathes of silk attached to bamboo poles. Ola Maciejewska brings the iconic legend face to face with her paradoxes and intangible character.

This work explores how dance connects with its own past. By chronicling dance through the body, the work pursues a singular approach to the history of dance, as well as the transmission and emancipation of this art form.

This program is part of “M+ Live Art”.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Dancer and choreographer Ola Maciejewska made her choreographic debut in 2011 with Loie Fuller: Research, a solo performance which she later adapted for three dancers in a 2015 work titled Bombyx Mori. From 2016 to 2018, she was an associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen in Normandy. Her most recent work, Dance Concert, premiered in Taiwan at the National Taichung Theatre and in France at the Pompidou Center as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris. In 2020, she received a grant from Internationale Tanzmesse NRW to work in the Pina Bausch Foundation archives. Her upcoming project Figury (Przestrzenne), which will premiere the 4th of March 2022 at CNDC Angers, consists of a solo performance, a film and a collective choreography workshop investigating the history of the dancing body and its relationship with nature.