Tomorrow, folks!
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!
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
Elke will be teaching a workshop called "BodyPractice" at Notafe 2025. Viljandi has also my favorite cafe!
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
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
LIVING ROOM DANCES
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
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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)
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!
"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!
