Exhibition // Dancecamera SPACES, 2023

Exhibition 1 – 4 June

In a performative dialogue with a camera, dancers and musicians create their very own new motion patterns.

Their rhythm and the dynamics of emerging soundscapes and image spaces react with the light-sensitive emulsion of the image carrier and concentrate themselves in the form of long time exposure.

The photographic paper shows both a shadowy figurative image of the situation, as well as tracing the movements of the dancers, which become a line drawing.

This image is made possible by a 3D-printed camera construction that is connected to the dancers’ limbs.

The dance camera is a further development of past works in which Paul Pape has already dealt with wind movements on photographic paper.

Pape adds a wind-light pendulum to the almost classic idea of a Pencil of Nature, which Henry Fox Talbot used in an early work in the history of photography to turn light itself into the creator of the image, so that the wind, which is itself invisible, leaves traces on the image carrier. In “Dancecamera Spaces”, the performers create traces of their movement in space. Standing still means becoming visible, movement means leaving traces.

Concept & Photography: Paul Pape

Construction of Camera: Felix Pape

Costume and Set Design: Agnes Storch Pape

Art Design: Veerle Vervliet

Dance: Maria Werner and Isabel Jakob

Opening hours

Thursday 01.06.

Final rehearsal (open to the public)

Performance, 13:00

Opening hours 13:00 – 15:00

Friday 02.06.

Performance, 17:00

Opening hours 16:00 – 19:00

Saturday 03.06.

Performance, 15:00

Performance, 20:00

Opening hours 15:00 – 21:00

Sunday 04.06.

Performance, 15:00

Opening hours exhibition 13:00 – 17:00