#7 Elenita Queiróz (St. Gallen)
Warning for Contemplation Sections
Portrait No.7 follows the creative process behind Elenita Queiróz's Warning for Contemplation Sections. The film documents the rehearsal process with the dancers Léa Thomen, Charlotte Mathiessen and Mara Natterer under the guidance of the St Gall-based choreographer. Through improvisation tasks and playful settings, they generate new ideas and movement material together. The audience witnesses how the rather abstract topic of female exhaustion and resistance is translated into choreographic sequences and monumental, opulent pictures. Elenita Queiróz’s declarations make it very clear that this piece is both deeply personal and bears significant social urgency.
Duration: 21 minutes
Credits
Concept: Mona De Weerdt, Michelle Ettlin
Camera, editing, post-production: Michelle Ettlin
Dramaturgy: Mona De Weerdt, Michelle Ettlin
Production: echolot films / mdw Kulturproduktionen
with:
Elenita Queiróz (concept, choreography, dance)
Léa Thomen, Charlotte Mathiessen, Mara Natterer (co-choreography, dance)
Raoul Alain Nagel (music composition)
Locations: Rösslisaal Trogen, Pool - Raum für Kultur St. Gallen, Tanzhaus Zürich
Supported by: the Federal Office of Culture / Dance as Cultural Heritage, Amt für Kultur St. Gallen, City of St. Gallen, the Steinegg, Arnold Billwiller, Ernst Göhner, Corymbo, Alexis Victor Thalberg and Sophie and Karl Binding Foundations and TKB Jubiläums Stiftung.
The translation is financed by: Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and the Oertli Foundation
Partners: Reso – Dance Network Switzerland, SAPA Foundation – Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
© echolot films / mdw Kulturproduktionen / Elenita Queiróz 2022
picture: rehearsals at Rösslisaal and Tanzhaus © Michelle Ettlin