the Festival Instant Composition is a platform for real time composition. Habits of perception want to be refreshed and movement and composition be played out in multiple and surprising ways.
Interaction and collaboration are central issues, and according to point of view will affect the focus and program of each edition.
The third edition is planed for autumn 2021 (shifted due to the bottleneck in programming as a result to the pandemic).
Theme and focus will be collaboration:
inviting groups of dancers / musicians who have been collaboration on Instant Composition for a while
between different regions and cities in Switzerland, including the fresh speaking part
a mutual collaboration within a three-day residency of all the involved artists to prepare shared performances in the different cities
The first two editions of this Festival were a collaboration between Zirkusquartier Zurich and the fusion projects. The aim was to bridge contemporary dance and artistics. Eye and ear were invited to open up to similarities and differences.
There was performances and workshops to experience the art of the now as observer and with your own body
first edition February 2019
second edition March 2020
view excerpts https://vimeo.com/400586259
performances 2020
6.3. Sina Nikolaus: dance /artistics Andrea Kirchhofes: music
6.3. Instant PIG: Lisa Thomas, Claudia Senoner: dance Oliver Prechtl: music
7.3. Jonas Althaus, Julian Vogel, Josef Stiller: artistics Benjamin Brodbeck: music
7.3. cie odos: Maja Zimmerlin: dance Kritonas Anastasopoulos: artistics Eva-Maria Karbach, Alfred Zimmerlin: music
8.3. Peter Aerni, Sunita Asnani, Gianna Gruenig, Chris Lechner,
Angela Stoecklin, Ivan Wolfe: dance
with the kind support of: Ernst Goehner Stiftung
Stadt Zurich Kultur (performance support)
performances 2019
14.2. Kuan-Ling Tsai, Angela Stoecklin: dance
Jan Schacher, Beat Unternährer: music
15.2. Jonas Althaus: juggling; Volker Böhm: music
Susanne Sanna Zoll, ropedance; Lia Schädler, acrobatics
16.2. Lilo Stahl, Michael Schumacher: dance
Daniel Studer, Harald Kimmig, Alfred Zimmerlin: music
with the kind support of: Migros Genossenschaft
Stadt Zurich Kultur (performance support)