Code Series (2005)

Code Series is a choreographic investigation into the production of movement and its underlying structures. Drawing on the relationship between language and dance, the piece explores how movement can be generated, organized, and transformed through systems of rules and variations.

Referencing linguistic theory and performative speech acts, the work treats movement as a structured yet flexible system. Sets of movements are repeated and subtly altered, producing differences through shifts in parameters such as time, space, orientation, and continuity. In this way, the choreography operates through variation and repetition, echoing principles similar to those described in linguistic and philosophical frameworks.

Rather than presenting unlimited possibilities, the performance highlights the constraints inherent in any staged situation. Within this fixed framework, movement is analyzed, recomposed, and rearticulated, exposing how even minimal changes generate new meanings and perceptions.

Code Series thus positions the dancing body as both subject and system, where choreography becomes a method of thinking through movement, and movement itself becomes a form of language.

Concept, Choreography, Dance: Anne Juren
Artistic Assistance: Fouad Asfour, Bojana Cvejic, Alice Chauchat
Stage: Roland Rauschmeier
Lighting Design: Jan Maertens
Costume: Katharina Montag, Hanako Geierhos
Production Management: Pauline Roussille 

Production: Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung
Co Production: Tanzquartier Wien
Co Realisation: Szene Salzburg, Dans in Kortrijk 

Supported by: the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture 

© Roland Rauschmeier

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