Gisele Vienne's KINDERTOTENLIEDER to Bring Winter Night to New York Live Arts This Weekend

Making her New York Live Arts debut, Gisèle Vienne, in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg), takes audience members on an emotionally stirring journey that blurs the lines between reality and fiction. A true hybrid dance-theater work set in the visually arresting scenic landscape of a snowy winter night, Kindertotenlieder takes inspiration from the "uncanny" as presented by Sigmund Freud.

The work examines the representation of horrifying dread as something both familiar and alien, triggering a cathartic, ceremonial experience. As noted by Caden Manson in an article for Contemporary Performance, Vienne's Kindertotenlieder provides "The perfect breeding ground for the birth of the uncanny in our imagination, of the eerie blend of something that is equally familiar and strange."

Featuring: Gisèle Vienne, creator, with performers Jonathan Capdevielle, Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir, Guillaume Marie, Anja Röttgerkamp and Jonathan Schat and live music by KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg) and Sunn O))) & Boris (monté by KTL), Kindertotenlieder will run through Saturday, Nov 1 at 7:30pm. Tonight, Oct 30 at 6:30pm Come Early Conversation Collaborating Across Genres: Writer Dennis Cooper and Choreographer Gisèle Vienne in conversation. It all takes place at New York Live Arts, New York Live Arts Theater, 219 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011. Tickets: $15, $30. Call 212-924-0077 or visit newyorklivearts.org. Box Office hours: Monday-Friday 1 - 9pm | Saturday-Sunday 10am to 9pm.

About the Artists:

Gisèle Vienne, born in 1976, is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer and director. After graduating with a degree in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school EcoleSupérieureNationale des Arts de la Marionnette. There, she met Etienne Bideau-Rey with whom she created her first shows. She works regularly with, amongst others, the writers Dennis Cooper and Catherine Robbe-Grillet, the musicians Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley, the lighting designer Patrick Riou and the actor Jonathan Capdevielle. Since 2004 she has choreographed and directed, in collaboration with the writer Cooper, I Apologize (2004),Une belle enfant blonde / A young, beautiful blond girl (2005), Kindertotenlieder (2007),Jerk, a radioplay in the framework of the "atelier de créationradiophonique" of France Culture (June 2007), the play Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011) and The Pyre (2013). In 2009 she created EternelleIdole with an ice skater and an actor and the rewriting of Showroomdummieswith Bideau-Rey. Since 2005, she has frequently exhibited her photographs and installations. Vienne, Cooper, Rehberg and Capdevielle published an audio book in French and English: JERK / Through Their Tears (publisher DIS VOIR). She has published the book 40 PORTRAITS 2003-2008, in collaboration with Cooper and Pierre Dourthe (publisher : P.O.L). Vienne's current works in progress are a performance with the Puppentheater Halle (DE), the direction of two short movies and an opera with La Monnaie in Brussels (BE) for 2017.

Stephen O'Malley was born in New Hampshire, USA and raised in Seattle. He eventually spent a decade in New York and presently is based in Paris. As a composer and musician he has been involved in hundreds of concerts and performances around the world since 1993. O'Malley was a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))) (1998), Khanate (2000), Aethenor (2003), KTL (2005) and others. He is a frequent collaborator of many outsider musicians in various formations, and in studio settings. He has created the music for many of Gisèle Vienne's plays including This is How You Will Disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011) and The Pyre (2013) in collaboration with Peter Rehberg and Eternelle Idole (2009) on his own. O'Malley has worked with film makers and visual artists on gallery installation work, most notably with the American sculptor, Banks Violette.

Peter Rehberg is an author and performer of electronic audio works based in Vienna, Austria. Rehberg has performed live, both solo and collaborative, throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia. He was one of the first batch of artists that turned to mobile computing devices for the presentation of live audio performances in the mid-1990's. He has collaborated live and in the studio with, amongst others, Jim O'Rourke and Christian Fennesz (as Fenn O'Berg), Stephen O'Malley (as KTL), Gisele Vienne/DACM, Peterlicker, Z'EV Russell Haswell, Florian Hecker, Meg Stuart, Chris Haring, Marcus Schmickler, Jade, SUNNO))), as well as being a member of MIMEO. He has operated the Editions Mego label since 2006 and was co-leader of the original Mego label since 1995. He has created the music for many of Gisèle Vienne's plays including This is How You Will Disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011) and The Pyre (2013) in collaboration with Stephen O'Malley and I Apologize (2004), Une belle enfant blonde / A Young Beautiful Blond Girl and Showroommdumies (2001 & 2009) on his own.

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Photo Credit: Mathilde Darel