I samtale: Mette Ingvartsen & Danjel Andersson
Med videobidrag fra André Lepecki

I 2004 formulerede Mette Ingvartsen sit Yes Manifesto som et svar på Yvonne Rainers No Manifesto – en radikal afvisning af det spektakulære, virtuositet, glamour og mange af dansens konventioner.

På åbningsdagen for OPENINGS genbesøger Ingvartsen og Danjel Andersson Yes Manifesto og undersøger, hvad dets idéer betyder for samtidsdansen i dag.

Den uformelle og dybdegående samtale indledes med et videobidrag fra André Lepecki, professor ved Department of Performance Studies på Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Publikum er meget velkomne til at stille spørgsmål og dele refleksioner.

Mette Invartsens Yes Manifesto (2004):

Yes to redefining virtuosity
Yes to “invention” (however impossible)
Yes to conceptualizing experience, affects and sensation
Yes to materiality and body practice
Yes to expression
Yes to un-naming, decoding and recoding expression
Yes to non-recognition, non-resemblance
Yes to non-sense/illogics
Yes to organizing principles rather than fixed logic systems
Yes to moving the “clear concept” behind the actual performance of
Yes to methodology and procedures
Yes to editing and animation
Yes to style as a result of procedure and specificity of a proposal (meaning each proposal has another “style”/specificity, and in this sense the work cannot be considered essentialist.)
Yes to multiplicity, difference and co-existence