P N P

A choreographic project by
CBC – Christine Bonansea Company

P N P

A choreographic project by CBC – Christine Bonansea Company

D e s c r i p t i o n

PNP is a multimedia piece created in collaboration with the composer Byungseo Yoo and choreographer Christine Bonansea.
PNP portraits contemporary club and performance culture on intellectual-body level.

The piece has been developed in Berlin with a first choreographic and soundscape instant composition performance in May 2019 at ZK/u, followed by the current version with 3 additional dancers at DOCK11 for the No Borders Festival in August 22 and 24, 2019.


Conceived by:
Christine Bonansea and Byungseo Yoo

Original music composed and Performed by:
Byungseo Yoo

Dance instant composition by:
Christine Bonansea, Yuri Shimaoka, David Mariano, Ann Trepanier

Photography by:
Sigel Eschkol

Duration:
30min

V I D E O

C o n c e p t

PNP is a multimedia piece created in collaboration with the composer Byungseo Yoo and choreographer Christine Bonansea. PNP portraits contemporary club and performance culture on intellectual-body level.
The piece has been developed in Berlin with a first choreographic and soundscape instant composition performance in May 2019 at ZK/u, followed by the current version with 3 additional dancers at DOCK11 for the No Borders Festival in August 22 and 24, 2019.
The international team (Korean, French-american, Mexican, Japanese and Canadian) perform a work that questions perceptions, radical motion, normative aesthetic. In order to do that, Byungseo Yoo extends his research on field recording to create dynamics in between the bodies and the senses while Chirstine and her company represents memes of contemporary city lifer`s auto reflexive body languages. 

By referring methodology of Steve Reich, ‘Phasing’,Byungseo Yoo presents 4 sequences such as ‘Nature’, ‘Camp’, ‘Non-Camp’ and ‘industrial’ as components of Gremas Semantique structurale. Correspond to certain sequences, Christine and her company take role of the bodies, the bodies that trashing itself, meaning-less, almost self-destructive, jokey and evil also funny. 

PNP opens itself by using a multi-layered interfaces such as audio-video live streaming and live multi channel screening on off-line and on-line. While the latency generates the gap, as which Steve reich might call as ‘absolutheit’, the audiences generates its own time and space by being lost, and trashing themselves as the crowds who are on long queue towards Berghain.
  • Performing Dates
    • 2019 August, No Borders Festival,  DOCK11, Berlin Germany
    • 2019 Mai, work in progress, ZK/u Berlin Germany
Work in Progress:
ZK/u, MAI, 2019 (30min)
DOCK11, No Borders Festival, AUGUST, 2019 (15min)

Production:
Christine Bonansea Company
Co-production DOCK11, ZK/u

A R T I S T S

  • Christine Bonansea

    Christine bonansea is a New York-based dancer and choreographer with over 17 years of international experience in conceiving, directing/choreographing and performing movement-based works. She creates performances, installations, and films. She is the Artistic Director of Christine Bonansea Company, founded in 2010. Defined by expressive, virtuosic, improvisation-driven movement, her work inhabits an experimental, interdisciplinary, and collaborative environment in which other media – theater, video, visual art and design, spoken word, and music – play an important and integral part. Having studied Modern Literature at Paris’ La Sorbonne, she cites writers and philosophers as major influences.


    Bonansea studied dance with such luminaries as Regine Chopinot, Catherine Diverres, Mathilde Monnier, Ralph Lemon, Anna Halprin, Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little. She had the pleasure to collaborate and perform with such artists as Catherine Galasso, Katie Duck, Sara Shelton Mann, Faustin Linyekula, Tino Sehgal, Yoshiko Chuma.


    In New York City, Bonansea’s work has been presented by Danspace Project, Dixon Place, and Movement Research at the Judson Church and JACK. Her dances have also been developed in art residencies and commissioned by numerous venues and festivals in the U.S. and worldwide, including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, San Francisco International Arts Festival, and The Joe Goode ANNEX (San Francisco); Headwater Theater Linda Austin Space (Portland); Atlantic Center for the Arts (South Beach, Florida); DanceMatters (Toronto, Canada); Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo, Japan); The Centre Nationale De la Danse – Paris and at DOCK11 (Berlin, Germany). Her last work has been seen at JACK and the Judson Church in NYC and at Earthdance Creative residency in 2017.


    Additionally, Christine is also an accomplished dance teacher in both professional / performative and therapeutic setting.

    Christine Bonansea Company has been supported by funds from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, American Dance Abroad, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the French Consulate of San Francisco, among others.

  • Byyungseo Yoo

    Byungseo Yoo is a visual artist from Seoul, South Korea. Currently he is living and working in Berlin, Germany

    https://www.zku-berlin.org/people/byungseo-yoo-3/