InThisSection - juschkaWeigel

InThisSection is an international project founded in 2004 by Juschka Weigel and Miguel Muñoz. The process of choreographic work of the company is always characterised by the collaboration between artists with different trajectories and professional activities that work in relation to a concrete subject, being involved in the different situations that a production implicates.

The phases of production and investigation are generally intermingled, questioning themselves mutually until the moment of the representation itself. This dynamics provokes the process of doubt, but, at the moment, it’s well thus. We take this instability to move to and to give the possibility of placing the process of creations (its reflections and representations) on a scene, like a self-critical practice. It is only dance that takes a critical point of view of itself.

The methods of the choreographic work are not related directly to the form, but to the different parameters of tension. Alongn these lines, we do not make difference between the parameters of tension of speaking, or running, or the tension necessary to listen to a song. Finally, one does not talk about solely the body, but to the movements, and that means to consider the question: how to move? How to turn the pages of a book, how to watch outside, how to make a joke, how to represent all this. According to this principle, dance is the movement of thinking.

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DANCE PROJECTS by Juschka Weigel & InThisSection

Da wo es trocken bleibt
solo choreography :: 1996

Baba Ertas
solo choreography with support from Dharma Body Work :: 1997

Luisa
solo choreography :: 1999

Nachmittag eines Faun
choreography from Anzu Furukawa :: 1999

remix
with Kosmas Kosmoupoulus´s dance company “alkyonis” :: 2000

the 8 Project
lecturing and improvisation with Anzu Furukawa :: 2000

Goya
with 'Verwandlungsamt' - Anzu Furukawa:: 2000

How´s this...Improvised
partly improvised solo :: 2000

On the peak of normal
filmproduction for 2 dancers, with Berit Kücherer & Ebo Hill :: 2001

How´s this for a start to your day? >>>
co-production with J.Kiss. Invitation to the German “Tanzplattform 2002” in Leipzig

Restempfindlichkeit
film production with Stefan Marks & Monika Pesendorfer :: 2001

We´ll see
with Kosmas Kosmoupoulus´s dance company “alkyonis” :: 2001

escalators today
with Josef Kiss and Stefan Marks :: 2002

hours of cockoo
film production with Josef Kiss and Stefan Marks :: 2002

Im Imperfect
solo choreography with support from DBW :: 2002

Close up & personal >>>
Film and dance production with Ebo Hill :: 2002

grace under pressure >>>
solo choreography with support from DBW :: 2002

Ophir Chasma
with Virpi Pahkinen :: 2002

It´s spooky
full-length ensemble-choreography :: 2003

It´s spooky being alone >>>
solo-variation of It´s spooky :: 2003

ungemein >>>
ensemble-choreography :: 2003

life is to short to dance with an ugly man? >>>
solo choreography :: 2004

sobre el peso de la luz
dancer and choreography assistant for La Espiral danza :: 2004

líneas blancas
co-production with Martin Hug :: 2004

King Salomo or how to fry small fishes
Ensemble choreography :: 2005

frequency - I >>>
Solo choreography :: 2005

frequency - b >>>
Solo choreography :: 2006

AD HOC >>>
Solo Choreography :: 2006

the postpianoman surrender >>>
Ensemble choreography :: 2007

UNGEMEIN 1+2+3 (remembered) >>>
Ensemble choreography :: 2008

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MAIN PERFORMANCES

Santiago de Compostela - En Pé de Pedra / Festival Internacional de Danza - 2003 + 2005 + 2006

Barcelona - Dies de Dansa - 2002 + 2003

Santiago de Chile / Valparaíso - Danzalborde Festival de Danza en Paisajes Urbanos - 2004

Sevilla - ITALICA Festival Internacional de Danza - 2004 + 2005

Sevilla - Mes de Danza / Festival Internacional de Danza - 2004 + 2005 + 2006

London - Aerowaves / The Place - 2005

Rio de Janeiro - TransForma / Festival internacional de Dança em Trânsito - 2005

Sevilla - FEST / Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes Escénicas - 2006

Terrassa - TensDansa / Festival Internacional de Dansa - 2006

Madrid - XXIII Festival de Otoño - 2006

Madrid - Danzacalles / Veranos de la Villa - 2007

Stockholm - Dansens Hus - 2007

Barcelona - Mercat de les Flors - 2007

Madrid - IX Festival Escena Contemporánea / Ciclo Perfil - 2008

Lleida Teatre Municipal de l’Escorxador 2008

Terrassa - TNT/Terrassa Noves Tendències Festival de Dansa - 2008 + 2010

Bozen - ALP Move Festival - 2008

Murcia - Centro Párraga - 2008

Valencia - FESTIVAL VEO / Valencia Escena Oberta - 2009

Puertollano - Feria Internacional de Teatro de Castilla La Mancha - 2009

Santander - Ciclos de Verano UIMP - 2009

Zbaszyn - Experyment Festival - 2009

Barcelona - V Mostra de Teatre i Dansa Contemporanis - 2009

Bilbao / Vigo / Zaragoza - 9º Ciclo de la Red de Teatros Alternativos - 2009 + 2010

Barcelona - II Cicle Punt de Trobada / Museu Picasso - 2010

Prague - International Festival Nulty Bod - 2010

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AWARDS

the postpianoman surrender >>>
Winning project at the VII Premi d’arts Escèniques de Lleida - 2006

ungemein >>>
1 Preis Choreografie- 8MASDANZA (Islas Canarias) 2003

How´s this for a start to your day? >>>
2 Preis Tanz - 5º Festival de Danza de Stuttgart - 2000
PublikumsPreis - 5º Festival de Danza de Stuttgart - 2000
1 Preis Solo - 7MASDANZA (Islas Canarias) - 2002

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juschka weigel

Juschka Weigel starts her studies of dance at ‘Colombo Dance School’, in Zürich. After she finished successfully her three-year course, she received a six-month scholarship for ‘Merce Cunningham School’, in New York, accomplishing her basic dance education. After this period she received another scholarship for the ‘Academy of Art’, in Solo/ Indonesia. Since 1999 she studies Indian traditional music with master Pandit Sankha Chatterjee.

In Germany she co-founds the dance company ‘Verwandlungsamt’, under the direction of Butoh master Anzu Furukawa. At the same time she learns the movement method ‘Dharma Body Work’ (DBW), directed by Mikki Bleidner and Peter Laros.

After investigating the synergy between dance, butoh and body work with  Josef Kiss (1997-2000), they release their first work in collaboration, ‘How is this for a start to your day?’, a dance solo, first performed in the 5th International Festival for Solo Dance of Stuttgart, where she received the 2nd Prize for Choreography and the Special Prize of the Public. This piece gained the 1st Prize at the 7MASDANZA, International Dance Festival of Maspalomas, Canary Islands (Spain), in 2002. During this period she creates successful individual and collective choreographies for stage, film and multimedia productions. She works with different choreographers in Germany, Belgium, Spain, Austria and Sweden.
The solo pieces ‘Up Close and Personal’ and ‘Im Imperfect’ where first performed during the summer 2002. Her Solo choreography, ‘Grace under presure’, with the support of DBW, was first released in Berlin, October 2002.
‘It´s spooky’, her first long piece, has been performed in Germany, Spain and Southamerica from the end of 2002.
In 2003 she creates with the choreographer and dancer Simone Willeit the piece ‘Ungemein’, awarded with the 1st Prize of Group Choreography in 8 MASDANZA International Festival 2003. During the summer 2003 she tours around Spain with the pieces ‘Up Close and Personal’, ‘Grace under pressure’ and ‘How is this for a start to your day?’, successfully performed in cities as Barcelona, Sevilla, Santiago de Compostela and Granada.
From November 2003 until February 2004 she tours around South America and works as Dancer in Residence in Santiago de Chile, preparing her second long solo, ‘Life is too short to dance with an ugly man?’, first performed at HAU3 (Berlin) and selected to take part at AEROWAVES 2005 (The Place – London), among other festivals around europe and south america.

After one year of continuous collaborations with Miguel Muñoz, they create InThisSection – juschkaWeigel in 2005; the première of the company’s first solo work, ‘FREQUENCY – I’ (2005) takes place at En Pé de Pedra International Dance Festival (Santiago de Compostela). ‘frequency – B’ (2006)  was released at Theater im Depot, Dortmund. These two pieces have succesfully toured around Spain and Europe (Festival de Otoño – Madrid; Dansens Hus – Stockholm; Mes de Danza – Sevilla; etc.)

The company releases its first group choreography: ‘the postpianoman surrender ’ in december 2007. This project was awarded with the 7è Premi d’Arts Escèniques de Lleida, and was co-produced with Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona) with the support of ‘IDEE – Initiatives in Dance through European Exchange'.

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miguel muñoz

After different experiences as an actor and dancer, miguel muñoz gets into the field of technic by chance. He starts his collaborations with Cthe dance-theater company Cuerpo Transitorio, in 1997. Since then he takes part, as a light technician, light designer, technical director or direction assistant in many dance and theatre projects, co-working with spanish and european choreographers and directors.

Since 2004 he is a founding member and co-director of InThisSection - juschkaWeigel.