Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic

Factory International in Manchester is hosting the world premiere of Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic

Elke will explore the role of a “Flemish scientist” who studies Balkan Magic! Come, listen and find me as I narrate and guide you through this four-hour long ritual. I am going from Marina Abramović’s House With Ocean View performance in 2022 at the Royal Academy in London to becoming a narrator. I will guide you through mythology, eroticism and performance art. During this 4-hour long ritual I will craft how my body is related to the power, mystery and transformation of this work.

I am preparing now! Performing in Manchester on 9 - 19 Oct 2025! Get your tickets!

The Guardian https://apple.news/AzFwt3cttS-eEBymDKwIpKg

Tickets: https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/marina-abramovic-balkan-epic

Elke is thrilled to be part of the PARIS SUMMER ACADEMY (PSA) 2025.

13th edition of International
PARIS SUMMER ACADEMY
4 – 30 August 2025

https://www.oriantheatre.com/parissummeracademy

Elke will be teaching a workshop called "BodyPractice" at Notafe 2025. Viljandi has also my favorite cafe!

Dates: 7/7 to 7/13

Viljandi, Estonia

https://www.notafe.ee/notafe-2025

Elke is excited to be part of NOORTE NOTAFE / YOUNG NOTAFE for the first time!

YOUNG notafe is an international creative camp for children, who are interested in performing arts: dance, drama, music, arts - you name it.

Dates: 7/1 to 7/5

https://evestuudio.ee/noorte-notafe-young-notafe

Residency at Colgate University

Zus Performance is doing a residency this March at Colgate University

Master classes, workshops and interventions

Winter movement intensive starts January 18, 2025

Get moving!
Winter Intensive

Step out of your winter blues and join us in a movement workshop. We will lead a gentle warm up, group exercises to music, improvisation and compositions. Be part of a creative group and connect to your own artistic journey through movement.

Open to all ages and all abilities. No previous movement experience required.

Hosted by Safe Harbors of the Hudson
Location: The Ritz multipurpose room in Newburgh, New York
Starting January 18, 2025
Thursdays 7pm to 8:30pm and Saturdays 10am-11:30am
Drop-ins welcome
FREE

For more information or any questions, please contact: zusperformance@gmail.com or visit: https://safe-harbors.org

First in a new series: LIVING ROOM DANCES

We at Zus are starting up a new series called LIVING ROOM DANCES (…“nobody’s gonna do it for you”)

Come see the first performance, 160 Dubois, featuring work by Elke Luyten and Amanda Hunt

Friday December 13, 2024 at 7pm

Reservations required by emailing zusperformance@gmail.com

Photo by Shannon Shoots Film

Summer workshops

Elke will be teaching a series of workshops this summer in Europe:

Notafe 2024

in Viljandi, Estonia

July 8-12, 2024

10 am-1pm

https://www.notafe.ee/notafe-2024/teachers/elke-luyten

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Cleaning the House Workshop 

at the Marina Abramović Institute

Athens, Greece

July 14-19, 2024

https://www.mai.art/cth

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Mime Corporel Mouvement & Création 

La Montade 

Paris, France

July 29-August 3, 2024

https://www.lamontade.com/mime-corporel--stage-cours-formation-paris.html

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Paris Summer Academy

Paris, France

Week 1 (August 5-9, 2024):
-Movement REALITIES workshops with Elke Luyten (10am-1pm)
-Performance Lab with Elke Luyten (2pm-5pm)

https://www.oriantheatre.com/parissummeracademy

Spaceman coming to Netflix on March 1st

I am excited to see that the film Spaceman directed by Johan Renck and starring Adam Sandler is coming out soon. I performed the animated spider character Hanus on set. We did weeks of shooting in the film studios in Long Island, NY in April and May of 2021. Now it is happening. Long live Hanus!

https://www.netflix.com/title/81301595

"The House with the Ocean View" at the Royal Academy in London

Elke Luyten will be performing "The House with the Ocean View" at the Royal Academy in London, continuously from October 5th until October 16th. 

For tickets and more information, visit: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/page/marina-abramovic-reperformances

She will be sharing some of her preparation and experiences via instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zusperformance

Performance of IT ADVANCES tonight in New York City

IT ADVANCES

Part of the exhibition  Press : On


When: Saturday April 22, 2023 6pm-8pm
Where: 1535 Decatur Street, 2 Left, Ridgewood, NY 11385

For more information about the exhibition, please visit: https://www.peatandrepeat.org/press-on

Thank you to Joppe, Cisse, Nate and Logan for their artwork!

Residency at Wildacres

We are currently in the mountains of western North Carolina for a writing residency.

Book project!

Our dear friend Oswald Egger has put together a book commissioned by the Insel Hombroich Foundation and we have contributed some visual things.

Check it out: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgJp7LTvUQr/

Das Buch vom Drehen und Wenden der Blätter: Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Stiftung Insel Hombroich
von Oswald Egger, ausgelegt
in einer Foliation von Jennifer Eckert

With contributions from:

Oswald Egger
Thomas Schestag
Gundi Feyrer
Peter Gilgen
Sissi Tax
Sonja vom Brocke
Felix Philipp Ingold
Marica Bodrožić
Benedikt Ledebur
Aase Berg
Anneke Brassinga
Dagmara Kraus
Suse Wiegand
Hans Thill
Tristan Marquart
Ulrike Draesner
Astrid Nischkauer
Bodo Hell
Bogomir Ecker
Jean-René Lassalle
Martina Hefter
Michael Donhauser
Ulf Stolterfoht
Marion Poschmann
Stefana McLure
Jil Barrow
Kerstin Preiwuß
Farhad Showghi
Norbert Lange
Marcel Beyer
Aris Fioretos
Durs Grünbein
Jennifer Eckert
Ilma Rakusa
Michael Lentz
lain Galbraith
Urs Allemann
Michel Sauer
Patrick Beurard-Valdoye
Peter Schreiner
Tamara Štajner
Kathrin Röggla
Monika Rinck
Daniela Seel
Max Renkel
Julia Trompeter
Jan Kuhlbrodt
Katrin Köhler
Franziska Füchsl
Uliana Wolf
Benedikt Ledebur
Brigitta Falkner
Nadine Weixler
Gustav Sjöberg
Iris Drögekamp
Arne Rautenberg
Anja Utler
Theresia Prammer
Elke Luyten / Kira Alker
Florian Telsnig
Ralf Kaufmann
Ralf Simon
Martin Endres / Andrea Sakoparnig
Charles de Roche
Heinz Baumüller
Karin Krauthausen
Hartmut Hecht
Katharina Hinsberg
Erich Klein
Ursula Schultz-Dornburg
Benedikt Ledebur
Roland Nachtigäller

Dance video work at “a micro-biology of circumstance: now what?”

We will be showing some OLD and NEW dance video work at this upcoming exhibition, curated by Caterina Verde: CLOWN (2018) and My mouth is full of sadness (2021).

“a micro-biology of circumstance: now what?”

Opening September 8, 2021 6-8 pm

September 6 - 11, 2021

Tashmoo Springs Pumping Station

Vineyard Haven, Mass.

A post/current pandemic morphing exhibition of changing circumstances and variable outcomes 

Kira Alker

Keith Donovan

Jack Greene

Philip Greene

Elke Luyten

Paul McGuirk

Francine Hunter McGivern

Mandy Morrison

Pasha Radetzki

Lesley Raeside

Matthew Rose

Hope Sandrow

Anna Sang Park

Caterina Verde

For more information, please visit: https://www.peatandrepeat.org/exhibitions

Residency at Kings County Hospital

In July we began a residency at the psychiatric wards at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, support by the Beautiful Distress Foundation out of Amsterdam.

We are studying expressions of mental illness in movement and considering the impact on choreography.

We will be living in the hospital for 12 months during which we will be learning about care and institutionalization, bureaucracy and consent, ethics and art. It is through our practice and our outreach that we are trying to find ways to reduce the stigma of mental illness.

This project has been a long time coming for us and we're thrilled for all of the support, training and access we've been given by the staff at Kings County.

CLOWN at Para\\el Performance Space

We are presenting a small piece of CLOWN at Para\\el Performance Space on Saturday May 11th at 7pm.

Para\\el Performance Space (formerly known as Panoply Performance Laboratory) is an amazing space run by IV Castellanos and Amanda Hunt at 104 Meserole Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn. More info at: http://www.ivcastellanos.com/parallel

AND, as part of this program, we were invited to curate one artist's work for the following week. We have chosen Nick Morgan who will presenting some of his research around the artist Mike Glass as well some of his own work. Come check out his piece on Saturday May 18th at 7pm!

Winter Solstice with Sibyl Kempson: the final Shout!

Join us for the FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL Shout:

Sibyl Kempson: 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens: Winter Solstice

It’s been a remarkable journey and we can’t thank our dear friend Sibz for inviting us to be a part of this project!

Tours, responses, dances, songs, collective remembrances and interventions taking place:

Wed, Dec 19–Fri, Dec 21, 2018

Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater at the Whitney Museum

For more information:

https://whitney.org/events/sibyl-kempson-winter-2018

"Clown" at Newburgh Open Studios

We are presenting a dance video installation called “Clown” at Newburgh Open Studios:

Saturday September 29 and Sunday September 30, 6pm-8pm at 115 Lander Street

For more information, check out:

https://www.newburghcommunitylandbank.org/

or

http://www.newburghopenstudios.org/

Fall Equinox with Sibyl Kempson at the Whitney Museum

We are making choreography for "Sibyl Kempson: 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens" again this year! Come celebrate the arrival of decay and decomposition, aka Fall.

Fall Equinox: September 22, 2018 at 9:54 pm

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Whitney Museum website: https://whitney.org/events/sibyl-kempson-12-shouts-fall-2018

If the piece sells out, you can always show up the day of the performance and watch from the 7th floor terrace with museum admission!

Residency in NEWBURGH!

We <3 Newburgh!

We will be living, creating and showing some new work in Newburgh, NY during August and September 2018 with the generous support of the Newburgh Community Land Bank.

https://www.newburghcommunitylandbank.org/artist-in-vacancy