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Anna Koch film
Claudia Molitor film / music
Anna Koch (Sweden) & Claudia Molitor (UK/Germany, 1974)
handle with care varsamt World Premiere (2020) 30′
Claudia Molitor’s music tells us stories about nature’s course. Her work starts with listening, connecting it to the other senses we experience life through. She’s written several pieces that alight the existence of objects: Sonorama, a train-journey soundtrack, as well as The Singing Bridge, which gave a voice to London’s Waterloo Bridge. At hcmf// 2019, she performed the final edition of her collaborative work Decay, an open-ended improvisation in which performers acted as a conduit for a continuing piece of music that lived its own life. She also premiered new audiovisual works she’d made for a sound installation which slowed down time, inviting audiences to experience focused, absorbed listening.
A dancer, choreographer and director, Anna Koch’s work attempts to drive the world of dance forward. As the founder of Weld, she has tried to push against the perceived limitations of the genre, ‘developing the idea of what a dance company can be today’. Through new and experimental approaches to rhythm and repetition, she also likes to challenge what can be choreographed, examining the physical arrangement of ‘voices, hands and objects’. Used to applying her style to spaces, and to finding the choreography in places and things, her work shares subtle linkages with Molitor’s, looking beyond the tradition of dance to a new, all-encompassing version of it.
Molitor and Koch have used their digital downtime to work on a collaboration that explores ‘separation and connection’, thinking not only about the two spaces they’re living in, but the ‘movement’ between the two that happens when they communicate. The resulting film piece focuses in on the small, unnoticed things around them, the duo moving and choreographing objects – combining them with sounds that have been ‘foraged’ for, collected from the suppressed local environments still breathing around them.
Commissioned by hcmf//