OWN WORK
FRAU MIT FLÜGEL/VROUW MET VLEUGEL
a piece for and with piano
Fledging means
leaving the old familiar
and to dare something new.
How does it feel to leave your own nest? To go your own way? To show yourself to others? To wish for something and be afraid of it at the same time?
Cautiously, curiously and playfully, the performer approaches her piano and the audience. A hiding place, a child, a cave, a dance partner, a grand piano, a woman. Shapes and images emerge and transform continuously.
Piano music, language, dance and movement theatre merge into a very personal piece about authenticity, the courage to show oneself and the longing for connectetness.
2022
Concept, composition, piano, performance: Oona Minoo
BEING & BECOMING/dance performance
“You say you gonna change this world, but this world changes you.
When did it all start? With the egg from which you emerged?
Have you really ever been a blank slate?”
Lyrics from the music to Being & Becoming
The human body in fusion, connection, and distinction to his environment. A moving journey through different stages of being and becoming. A continuous metamorphosis.
2020-2022
Choreography, dance: Oona Minoo
Music: Maria Solberger
Costume: Claire Chatel
Photos: Hanne Pilgrim
TRACKS/dance video & photo serie
Tracks we carry. Tracks we follow. Tracks we leave behind.
No past without future. No future without past.
Engraved and interwoven.
No ending. No beginning. An infinite thread.
TextilTanz 2020
Dance improvisation: Oona Minoo
Costume: Claire Chatel
Photos: Linnéa Jänen
Video coming soon!
LAST HUMAN SOLO/dance video & photo serie
Originally a part of the dance performance “Being & Becoming”, “Last Human Solo” became its own independent format, shifting the stage into an open air scenery with another original costume.
Metamorphosis can be slowly. But also, sudden and explosive.
TextilTanz 2020
Dance: Oona Minoo
Music: Maria Solberger
Costume: Claire Chatel
Photos: Linnéa Jänen
LAYER BY LAYER/ artistic research project
Skin as a border between the inner and the outer world.
The most intimate human cover. As the outermost envelope. The closest contact point to our surroundings.
Skin covers the many layers of the body,
interwowen and engraved with memories and stories.
This project started with an intensive movement research about the sensation, influence, and relationship between different anatomical “layers” of the body (skin, muscles, fascia, bones etc.) and movement. During our following residencies at CLOUD/danslab and Espace des possibles, Claire Chatel (costume, stage design) and I, experimented with sound and textile materials, connecting other kinds of layers to the developed movement material. In the last research periode, the interaction between body, movement and material was the focus of our research and was formed into choreographic scenes, which were presented at CLOUD/danslab.
The rich artistic material that came out of this research project also inspired us to develop the following performances: Being & Becoming, Last Human Solo and Tracks as well as my composition Sous ma peau.
TextilTanz 2019-2020
Movement research, choreography, dance: Oona Minoo
Textile research, costume, stage design: Claire Chatel
Residencies at: CLOUD/danslab,
The Hague, Espace des possibles, Rouan
Photos: Ralph Luzon, Textiltanz
WINDSTEIN/movement research & documentation video
How can textile material and movement influence each other? What kind of movement possibilities does a certain material have to offer? How does movement change the shape and meaning of a textile object? What new pictures and stories can arise during the interaction between movement and material?
TextilTanz 2018
Movement research, Performance: Oona Minoo
Textile design & video: Claire Chatel
Music: Oona Minoo
Photos: Linnéa Jänen
About TextilTanz: Claire Chatel (designer, textile artist) and Oona Minoo (dancer, choreographer) cofounded this collective in 2018 to research about the connection and possibilities of movement and textile art. Their projects often have video formats as well as stage performances and photo series in cooperation with Linnéa Jänen.
P.O.M./music video
2018
Music, choreography: Oona Minoo
Dance: Carla Schuler, Oona Minoo
Video: Alina Huber
Photos: Oona Minoo