Lost & Found (2012)
The work develops in the context of an ongoing collaboration with visual artist Roland Rauschmeier, who at the time works on the book Culture de la Danse. Crise de la Forme. Within this shared framework, they propose a fictional and normative aesthetics of performance, blending historical facts with invented narratives and subjective experiences. The piece translates principles derived from Bloom’s taxonomy into a choreographic process, mapping stages of learning from recollection to creative application onto the production of movement.
The artistic process is rooted in discipline and repetition. Between June and October 2012, Anne Juren enters the studio almost daily to record forty five minutes of ad hoc choreographic material. Working in empty theatres and rehearsal spaces, she engages with Feldenkrais practice, contact improvisation and conversational reflection. She revisits formative experiences, including an early encounter with Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps, and continuously copies, adapts and reconfigures movement. Films, texts, music and visual materials serve as additional layers that inform and destabilize what is remembered.
On stage, these processes converge. Materials accumulate without a predetermined master plan and are subjected to composition beyond notions of coherence or failure. The space fills with images, texts, colours and presences, both real and fictional. Juren navigates this landscape, continuously rewriting what has been remembered through the act of choreography itself.
Lost & Found renders artistic practice as a dynamic system of learning, where remembering becomes production and knowledge remains unstable. The work exposes how choreography emerges from accumulation, translation and transformation, and how personal and cultural memory are constantly re inscribed through performance.
Concept, Performance: Anne Juren
Concept, Set, Video: Roland Rauschmeier
Performance: Nancy Banfi, David Subal
Dramaturgy: Silke Bake
Light: Bruno Pocheron
Costume: Lise Lendais
Music, Sound: People Like Us, Christophe Demarthe
Production: Angela Bedekovic
Research: Ruth Ranacher
Assistant: Zane Estere Gruntmane
A coproduction of Wiener Tanz und Kunstbewegung and brut Wien. Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. With thanks to Art Stations Foundation Poznan for a residency within the EU project modul dance.
© Gregor Tietze