Violeta Sanchez's Performance " Five Sister "

IF I CAN’T DANCE, I DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION

PERFORMANCE Five Sisters Guy de Cointet 28 & 29 October 2011, 20:30 hrs Frascati WG, Amsterdam Bookings: www.theaterfrascati.nl Five Sisters 3 & 4 November 2011 STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven www.stuk.be Five Sisters 12 November 2011 MUSAC, León www.musac.es Five Sisters Spring 2012 American, French and British tour

If I Can’t Dance proudly presents the first restaging of the play Five Sisters (1982) by Guy de Cointet at Frascati WG in Amsterdam on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October 2011. Five Sisters is a performance that oozes with the West Coast culture of health and beauty. It presents the story of five sisters, who busy themselves with the problems and pleasures of modern life on a Sunday afternoon. The California sun provokes their reactions, emotions and moods. With Five Sisters, de Cointet explored the affective wellbeing of women who have changing, restless, encounters in their parental home, discussing issues of wardrobe, suntan, health, exotic holidays, work and painting. Through a combination of minimalist and baroque elements, the artist plays with the construction of individuality, the expression of emotion and the various interpretations of language. This restaging of Five Sisters is the result of a research conducted by art historian Marie de Brugerolle, as part of If I Can’t Dance’s programme Performance in Residence, and addresses questions around the idea of ‘making Five Sisters anew’. Concept play and text: Guy de Cointet Design stage and light: Eric Orr Director: Jane Zingale Dramaturge: Marie de Brugerolle Director’s assistant: Vivan Ziherl Performers: Violetta Sanchez, Einat Tuchman, Adva Zakai, Veridiana Zurita Light and sound: Elizabeth Orr Wardrobe: Monique van Heist Publication: Will Holder Curator: Frédérique Bergholtz Language: English spoken Five Sisters is initiated by If I Can’t Dance in Amsterdam, and co-produced with STUK Kunstencentrum in Leuven and MUSAC in León. Five Sisters is financially supported by the Guy de Cointet Estate, Étant Donnés, the Mondriaan Foundation, the Culture Programme of the European Union, and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. With thanks to Yael Davids, Dora García, the Eric Orr Estate, Frascati Theatre and SMART Project Space.

SCREENING Who’s That Guy? Tell Me More about Guy de Cointet Directed by Marie de Brugerolle Produced by Entre2prises 27 October 2011, 20:00 hrs SMART Project Space, Amsterdam Bookings: www.smartprojectspace.net

If I Can’t Dance in collaboration with SMART Project Space, present a screening of Who’s That Guy? Tell me more about Guy de Cointet. A Portrait of an Artist by Artists, on Thursday 27 October at 20:00 hrs at SMART Project Space. This film portrait of Guy de Cointet is composed of interviews and documents compiled by art critic Marie de Brugerolle over a period of 10 years. Artists including John Baldessari, Christophe Bourseiller, Larry Bell, Barbara Smith and Paul McCarthy talk about their contemporary de Cointet and unreleased documents provide insight into the singularity of his oeuvre.

Violeta Sanchez

Later,

Marco de Rivera