LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS
(2003-2004)

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VIBRATE THE SPACE WITH YOUR CONCENTRATION.

DANCE THE FIRST DANCE SEQUENCE THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER.

ENUMERATE 10 REASONS WHY YOU DANCE (or PLAY or PERFORM).

DANCE LIKE SOMEBODY YOU REALY APPRECIATE.

BE LIKE IT WAS THE LAST MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE.

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LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GALLERY OF MOVEMENT/ 2003

Interpreted/ performed by: Snjezana Abramovic, Damir Bartol Indos, Milana Bros, Nikolina Pristas, Irma Omerzo, Zeljka Sancanin, Zak Valenta and Jasna Vinovrski

The project was commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the dance week festival in Zagreb, Croatia and was presented in the Gliptoteka Museum of Zagreb. In order to question position of dance, Zagreb dance scene, personal influences and ways of thinking of the most prominent artists in that scene, Ivana Müller asked 8 Croatian choreographers and performers from different age groups and styles to join the project.

The piece consisted of 8 solos based on interpretations of a list of identical instructions that Ivana Müller proposed to each of the 8 artists. The instructions were related to issues of body, understanding of movement, presence and relationship to the audience. They were referring to personal histories of the performers as well as to the history of dance in general. The performers had never heard or seen the instructions before the performance and their interpretations were their first (impulsive?), non-fabricated and non-contemplated reaction. Each interpretation was a sort of interview or confession in which the performers answered the questions contained in instructions through their physical / performative language.

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LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS /
VIDEO CHOREOGRAPHY / 2004

A year later in the same space and for the same festival Ivana Müller continued the project with the video installation «List of Instructions/ video choreography».

8 video documents of solo’s that were video-taped a year before are synchronously projected on 8 screens in the same space in which live performances took place last year.

By juxtaposing 8 different interpretations of the same instructions Ivana Müller creates relational – spatial installation in which 8 performers are communicating in the unity of space, time and task, «exchanging» the mind frames and dialoguing physically. In such a way they, even without being physically present but rather present as a mediate image, create a performative event together.


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