is an interdisciplinary project which arises from an encounter between two artists; the choreographer and contemporary dancer Iris Heitzinger and the circus artist, acrobat and performer Joan Català Carrasco. Starting from an attitude of innocent curiosity and openness between these two beings, they intend to recognize themselves through a collision with the other unfurling a combat of ideas. A role play which challenges the concept of the masculine and the feminine, the use of power and strength. Incorporating the lightheartedness of a game and the impulse towards mischievousness they propose to create a new universe which they belong to.
Two people walking on the line
between what they know and what they don't know.
There is an apparent doubt towards going on.
As a premiss they choose a free fall.
A jump into dense emptiness.
Idea, creation, performance: Iris Heitzinger & Joan Català
Music: OST Heimatklänge
Lights: Elm Costa
Video: Johann Perez Viera
with the support of: OSIC/Generalitat de Catalunya
, El Graner/Barcelona
, C.C. Can Felipa/ Barcelona
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Trinity is an audiovisual interactive dance piece which tells the journey of a body going through different states of perception of the space. Through movement, the body is immersed in an environment of textures and audiovisual landscapes that not only accompany but will push to a transformation process.
A transformation process achieved through the close link between the triad of movement, light and sound shaping a language that allows the expression of these elements in space, while causing profound changes in physical behavior to the body through the reverberation and echoes of its own actions.
Oscar Sol (visuals and interaction)
Iris Heitzinger (choreography and performance)
Original music: Ramón Prada
Costume design: Ariadna Papiol
Film making: Mind the Film
Created 2013 in Barcelona; produced by electronic performers
with support from:NU2s
/ El Graner
/ Mercat de les Flors
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Wunschkind is a performance intervention created specifically for the exposition
"Que desear" (engl.: "what to desire") at CaixaForum, Barcelona.
Inspired by pieces by Anish Kapoor, Rivane Neuenschwander, Liu Jianhua
and Dora García, Iris Heitzinger invites to read the pieces
reinterpreted through the body. She creates a bridge between the works
and the spectator offering the body as a site of projection where the
concept of desire is reflected and questioned. Offering a physicality
which materializes the suggested concepts the work looks at how desire
sometimes confronts us with our own limits to comply but also how our
most hidden desires are a potential source of strength.
Idea, creation and performance: Iris Heitzinger
Commissioned by CaixaForum Barcelona
Supported by: Centro de Creación Contemporánea
, C.C. Can Felipa
After their first collaboration as co-creators in the piece L_ENTES, Iris Heitzinger (AT) and Natalia Jiménez (ES) continue to consolidate their artistic relation in the piece "Contenedor" a commission by the Festival Escena Poble Nou 2012, Barcelona. In this occasion they collaborate with the musician Gaspar Alloza.
Three performers (2 dancers and 1 musician) join a "corps de ballet" of russian dolls in order to create a musical a physical score which evolves around the concepts of "copy" and "multiplicity". In this work the two dance makers are interested in strategies of composition from the performers point of view who makes decisions in real time in relation to all the information available to her in the present moment. Contenedor is a physical and musical game which investigates the idea if the "particular copy"
Concept, creation and performance: Natalia Jiménez & Iris Heitzinger
Original music and performance: Gaspar Alloza
Lights: Iris Heitzinger y Natalia Jiménez
Costume: Mº Luisa Gallardo, Iris Heitzinger y Natalia Jiménez
with the support of Festival Escena Poble Nou
2012, C.C. Can Felipa
, C.C. La Barceloneta
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THE GUINEA PIG COLLECTIVE'S BLACKBOX (2009)
The guinea pig collective unites three artists from different fields:
(singer/composer) and Iris Heitzinger
(choreographer/performance artist). They are brought together by the interest to
create a discourse, which deepens the understanding of each artist’s own craft as well
as one, which offers an intense exchange and involvement with the craft of the others,
therefore, creating an interdisciplinary language. Their first collaboration is the project
proposition, which combines performative, audiovisual and media art with new technologies in
both the format of an interactive installation and a live-performance.
with the topic of the virtual space as a misinterpreted place of intimacy and of personal
encounters and puts this face to face with the immediate experience of direct human and personal
Idea/concept/creation: Dietmar Suoch, Christine Hinterkörner, Iris Heitzinger
Choreography/performance: Iris Heitzinger
Technical direction/realization: Dietmar Suoch
Musical direction/composition/voice: Christine Hinterkörner
Light design: Hannes Peithner - Lichtenfels
Costume: the collective
Set design: the collective, Ingrid Weichselbaumer
Blackbox is funded by the Arts Council of Salzburg/Austria and was coproduced
within the festival Basics 2010.
Furthermore it’s creation was supported by
- centro de creación de dansa y de artes escénicas contemporáneas/Barcelona,
- centro de creación contemporánea/Camallera y
- association of choreographers/Salzburg.
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LO QUE ES (2008)
SoloDancePeformance for a lady and a ventilator
Where does life happen?
Where does fear live?
In the relations
between owning, loosing and loving.
What is pride?
The attempt to protect one`s own
value or that which keeps us from growing.
What is disillusionment?
The loss of self-deception.
Where does communication or exchange start?
With the willingness to listen.
What is loss?
Realizing that one has to go on.
Why think about what should have happened?
In order to learn.
Why take of the layers one by one, give up again and again all the mechanisms that simplify my living
In order to find myself someday.
Lo Que Es is a reflection on how we try to
deal when we loose something or someone, on the process of admitting loss to yourself and working
through the stages of grief in order to go on.
Idea/creation/performance: Iris Heitzinger
Lightdesign: Dani Lacueva, Iris Heitzinger
AnDANDO CON ZAPATOS (2007)
Duo for 2 dancers and a bunch of shoes
"Would you lend me your shoe?"... Maybe being asked to take of
your shoe could be the most intimate favor anyone could ask of you. And maybe
walking in someone else's shoe gives an idea of his everyday routines, of his
way of moving, thinking, feeling... maybe it means touching a slight bit of his
essence even. And what is there to find? Only a caricature of someone, an
artificial image? Or is it possible to catch a glimpse of truth? And… in the
end is it me who’s walking in your shoe or is it you?
Idea/concept: Iris Heitzinger
Creation/performance: Ariadna Estalella Alba, Iris Heitzinger
CAFE MUT'S HOTEL EDEN (2006)
cafe mut. acts as an interdisciplinary (music-movement-word) and interactive collective of artists, coming from the field of contemporary music and dance who's declared goal and passion it is to create the "moment" in real time and space. Moving within the playground of the art of improvisation we strive to share the creative moment and make it directly accessible and experience-able for every-body and soul. This is accomplished in a typical "cafe mut. melange" consisting of atmospheric and technical virtuosity, emotional authenticity, abstraction and simplicity.
Collaboration in the full-evening improvisation piece "Hotel Eden" (2006)
clemens salesny - reeds
thomas froschauer - drums
clemens wenger - piano,
marlene wolfsberger - movement
iris heitzinger - movement
guest: eneko alcaraz - movement
Appearences at: CCL Linz, WUK Wien,
Festival Dantza Hirian (Spain/San
Sebastian, Irun), Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Wuk Wien, Spratzerner Kirchenweg
(St.Pölten), Sommerpavillon Melk
video I, video II