Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo / Os Gêmeos (BR) and Johannes Wieland (D)

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 Johannes Wieland (Germany) & Os Gêmeos (Brazil) & “Aura” Dance Theatre (Lithuania) „box mélancolique“

 

Choreography: Johannes Wieland

Sculpture: Os Gêmeos

Costumes: Johannes Wieland, Rūta Biliūnaitė

Music: The Andrews Sisters, Ben Frost, Radiohead, Bert Kaempfert, Kate Bush, Phonophani and more

Performers: Gotautė Kalmatavičiūtė, Rūta Lelytė, Evangelos Poulinas, Mantas Stabačinskas

Premiere: 28th of October, 2011

What or who is the “I” ? To what are we referring to when we reflect inward toward ourselves – and what time line is constructing this “I”? Have we come to create another more complex dimension of “time” in our head and isn’t that layered experience of time and events forcing us to create simplified mental or physical reference points in our lives, making us believe they exist clearly only in that one particular imprint forming our identity?   Anything and everything else would probably be whip-lash inducing….  clashing together the artistic worlds of Os Gêmeos and Johannes Wieland. Four performers are thrown into a box mélancolique, trying to find these defining reference points – visualizing and dissecting them, fabricating a new mental landscape melding the time lines into one visual experience.

Os Gêmeos are twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, Os Gêmeos means twins in portugese. They were born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and been actively involved in local graffiti scene since they were 12. Spray paint was not easily accessible for graffiti artists, so in the beginning they used latex pain. As a part of Brazilian graffiti tradition, they still use latex paint as well as spray paint and other medias creating their murals, objects and paintings. In their works brothers share the imagery of their mutual dream world. Sincere and naive, it goes by the name of “Tritrez”. What is noticeable in these paintings is Brazilian folk, characters from “Tritrez” and personages depicting family members of Os Gêmeos.. Yellow people as well as yellow colour are the distinctive character of their work. Their huge murals are located all over the world, including New York, Sao Paulo, Lisbo, Berlin, Moscow, Athens, Krakow and other places. In 2002 one of their works was commissioned to Olimpic Games, in 2007 they coloured Kelburn castle in Scotland, in 2008 they drew a huge mural on TATE Modern in London. Os Gêmeos visited Kaunas in 2007 and 2010, some of the works that are still present in Kaunas are located on the wall of Kaunas Picture Gallery, in gallery “101”, in the inner yard of closed cinema “Romuva”. In 2011 twins Os Gêmeos are back in Kaunas to present other side of their art. Starting in September, installation will be gradually built in Kaunas Picture Gallery. The work will tell the emigration history of their family of Italian and Lithuanian descent. The story will evolve on old furniture and little building filled with eccentric pictures inside.

Margarida Leda Kanciukaitis is the mother of two, Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo. Veronica Tognoli is her sister. They both are textile artists, Veronica also paints. Their hand-work is commissioned as a part of this project. They were born in Brazil in a family of Brazilian and Lithuanian. In 2007 Margarida and her sons were invited to Kaunas Biennial by curator Fernando Marques Penteado, who at the time searched evidences of contemporary textile art in Brazil. Margarida Leda Kanciukaitis and Veronica Tognoly are mostly inspired by the life, family traditions, Brazilian folk and Naif art, and sometimes they both collaborate with Margarida’s sons, Os Gêmeos. 

Johannes Wieland received his early dance training under Ellys Gregor in Berlin, the ballet academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, with John Neumeier at the Hamburg State Opera and the Amsterdam School of the Arts where he earned his BFA. His dance career took him back to Germany, the State Theatre of Brunswick, Germany, followed by the Berlin State Opera. Here he worked with numerous guest choreographers, among them Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. He then joined the Béjart Ballet Lausanne as a principle dancer and also toured extensively with the company. Ready for a radical change, Wieland next moved to New York City, where he was awarded a scholarship to the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, earning his MFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography in 2002. His company, johannes wieland, was founded that same year and debuted with his original work tomorrow at the Joyce SoHo theater. Praised as ‘a spectacular exploration of relationships’, by Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times, this was one in the body of the startlingly powerful, terse strange pieces Wieland began creating for his company, prompting Dance Magazine to cite him as one of the 25 to Watch, 2003. In addition to heading his own company, Wieland is artistic director and choreographer of the resident dance company of the State Theater of Kassel in Germany. He was also associate artistic director of Paradigm in New York and is a guest choreographer and teacher in schools and companies in Europe and North America. He is a permanent resident of the United States and divides his time between New York and Germany.  

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