MARTIN HANSEN
if it’s all in my veins
if it’s all in my veins
Concept/choreography: Martin Hansen
Performers: Hellen Sky, Maxine Palmerson, Michelle Ferris
Lighting Design: Amelia Lever-Davidson
Videography: Cobie Orger
Costume Design: Shian Law
Berlin-based Martin Hansen's work if it's all in my veins questions constructions of time and history, focusing on the spectacle of the theatre. Here, Martin looks to the Accelerationist Manifesto, which suggests that the process of capitalism should be accelerated to reach its inevitable demise. if its all in my veins is choreography at the intersection of time, the body and performance history, questioning linear progression and inviting new possibilities. Martin's work is ultimately open-ended. He interrogates how we can envision our dance's future if we proclaim it is no longer possible to think through 'a' future? Would dance history be over? Where do we direct our fiery optimism? What other histories might it give way to? Be optimistic.
MARTIN HANSEN is a 2014 graduate of the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin. In collaboration with Ania Nowak, he was the HOUSEMATE RESEARCH artist at Dancehouse, Melbourne in 2014 and premiered A Queer Kind of Evidence at Tanztage 2015. Martin presented Monumental at Tanznacht 2014, PACT Zollverein, Semper Oper Dresden and Ballhaus Ost. With Kareth Schaffer, Martin developed and performed in Other Dreams, an artistic tour of Gropiustadt, B-Tours Berlin 2015. Martin has performed with Tino Sehgal, Sebastian Mathias, Christoph Winkler, Jeremy Wade, Sebastian Blasius, Ligia Lewis, Laurie Young, among others. He was named 'Dancer of the Year' by Tanz Magazin in 2012, was a danceWEB scholar in 2013 and was the Origin Foundation Scholarship winner in 2014. In 2015, Martin received the Einstiegs Forderrung from the Berliner Senate and Art Start funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. Before moving to Germany, Martin toured internationally with Chunky Move, Not Yet Its Difficult and Hydra Poesis.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - March 2016 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.