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CONTACT (première étape) – Festival
d'Avignon 2004
Philippe Olza - Choreography / Dance
Hans Koch - Music composition
Carlotta Sagna, Aleksandra Suermondt - Coaching
Robert Suermondt - Space / Visual concept
Jean-Christophe Simon - Objects
Tomi Kohler - Lighting design
Dank an Didier Chape und Zoltán Dani
Hans Koch - Music composition
Lives in Bienne, Switzerland. Following his degree in the field of classical music he turned his attention to jazz and free improvisation. A member of the international trio Holz für Europa. Plays in the Cecil Taylor European Big Band in Berlin. Member of the Koch-Schütz-Studer trio www.koch-schuetz-studer.ch since 1990. The trio has toured Europe, the U.S. and Canada in recent years and is known internationally for its uncompromising and radical "Hardcore Chambermusic". Koch was deemed best soloist at the Lugano Jazz Festival and received the Kulturpreis of the City of Bienne, the Canton of Berne Musikpreis and the Berner Filmmusikpreis. Scholarship sabbaticals in New York, London and Cairo. Work commissioned by the Pro Helvetia Foundation in 1998. Plays the score for the film "Höhenfeuer" by Fredi Murer. Music for radio plays for Swiss Radio DRS2 and the Swisscom Pavillon EXPO 02. Concerts in improvisational music with Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Bley, Jim O’Rourke, Fennesz, J.-M. Montera, Anthony Coleman.
Carlotta
Sagna - Coaching
Born in Turin, Sagna lives in Paris. Dance training with the Compagnie Sutki, at the Académie de danse classique de Monte-Carlo and at the Mudra School (Maurice Béjart) in Brussels. She has danced in productions by Micha Van Hoecke, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Caterina Sagna. On the acting front she has worked with Cesare Ronconi's La Valdocca ensemble. She acted in a number of films by Jean-Claude Wouters before joining Jan Lauwers and the Needcompany www.needcompany.org in 1993 in what was to prove a long and intensive partnership. With her sister Caterina Sagna, she also developed "La Testimone" and "Relazione Pubblica" presently touring throughout Europe. 2003 saw the premiere of "A" at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris. Her most recent work "Tourlourou", a solo for the dancer Jone San Martin of the Frankfurt Ballet, was premiered as part of Le Sujet à vif at the Festival d’Avignon 2004.
Aleksandra Suermondt
- Coaching
Born in and resides in Geneva. Higher Education as a movement therapist at the Université de Genève (diploma in 1985). Worked as movement therapist for toddlers at the St Gervais nursery in Geneva and for the rectorate of Lausanne schools. Collaboration with speech therapists in order to raise carers' awareness of infantile psychomotoric development. She also worked as an educator in the Centre Clair-Bois where she was in charge of mentally disabled children, and as a theatre pedagogue for children in the Département de l'instruction publique, both in Geneva. At present she holds music and fairy-tale workshops and is touring as a storyteller with her own pieces for children "La pluie et le beau temps" ('Rain and sunny weather'), "Sasha-Clown", "Fragment d'une nostalgie" and "Plume d'or" ('Golden Feather').
Robert Suermondt - Space / Visual concept
Born in Geneva. Lives in Brussels. Following his studies at the Ecole supérieure d’arts visuels in Geneva he worked in the Chérif and Silvie Defraoui Atelier from 1983-1988. He has participated in several national exhibitions (Kunsthalle Berne, "Von Bildern", "6 Artistes suisses", Calcutta and New Delhi). He subsequently completed postgraduate studies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He was a prize-winner of the Concours fédéral des beaux arts in 1994, 1995 and 1996, of the Koninklijke Subsidie in the Netherlands and again at the Bonn Film Festival and at L'Imaggina leggera in Palermo. He lectures at the Piet Zwart Institut à Rotterdam in addition to his work as an artist (film, picture, installations). The Pro Helvetia Foundation featured his work as part of their series Collection Cahiers d’artistes. He is represented by the Annet Gellink gallery (NL), Fabian et Claude Walter gallery (CH) and by the Paolo Boselli gallery (B). www.robertsuermondt.com
Jean-Christophe
Simon - Objects
Born in Nîmes. Lives in St. Louis, France and currently works with the Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble in Basle. As a child he already displayed a passion for the mechanical and for inventions of all kinds. Creativity and craftsmanship were to accompany him throughout his development as a dancer. He has created several remarkable and special objects and stage appliances. He also plays piano, guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, drums, accordion, double bass and castanets... Restores old instruments, in particular, accordeon. He studied dance at the Ecole de l’Opéra de Paris. He has worked with the Théâtre de Nantes, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, with a number of national theatres in Germany (Nordhausen, Eisenach, Schwerin, Hildesheim) and with the Tanzwerk Nürnberg.
Tomi Kohler - Lighting design
Born in Muttenz, lives in Basle. Freelance theatre technician, lighting designer and producer. Kohler worked as technician with the Kaserne in Basle until 2001. Has worked for (amongst others) the Schaubühne Berlin (Sasha Waltz), the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Peter Brook) and the Théâtre du Soleil (Ariane Mnouchkine). Since 2001 he has worked independently with such diverse projects as Cirqu’Enflex, Theater Festival Basel (now Welt in Basel), Dani Wahl and EXPO 02. In 2002 he was lighting designer for Philippe Olza's "Madame Monsieur 6" in the Cathedral in Basle. 2003 saw his collaboration with Niels Torpus. Chief Technician for the production of "If Cassandra" in Stuttgart and Den Haag. Worked with the Biennale Bern and again for the Welt in Basel festival in 2004.
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