“One could go on for a long time about the genius and wonderful execution of Anna Krzystek’s dance performance- she was absolutely superb!This is a work that plays with our perceptions and perspectives of performance as well as the concepts of transformation or resolution. Playfully and perplexing we are engaged with ideas current in contemporary field theory and as ancient as medieval alchemy.”
Robert Beaton

BIOGRAPHY

Anna Krzystek is a choreographer & performer based in Glasgow. Anna is also a core member of Helsinki based performance company OBLIVIA Anna is currently engaged in developing ideas for No End. No End is to be the 5th in her series of solo pieces based on the premise of waiting. No End will continue to evolve and develop throughout 2011/12 and premiere in 2013. Anna continues to tour Figure This and Face On internationally.
With Oblivia, Anna is currently developing the first of 5 performance pieces in Oblivia's Museum of Post-Modern Art project and continues to tour Entertainment Island 1,2 & 3 - The Trilogy throughout Europe.

CURRENT BODY OF WORK

TEST, STILL, FIGURE THIS and FACE ON form a series of work based on the premise of waiting. Waiting, in all degrees of ambiguity, is experienced by everyone everyday. In these pieces the performer is referred to as the figure. Her presence is at once both immediate and distant as she is placed in relation to time, space, sound, object & filmed image. The carefully deliberated juxtapositions of the various elements forming these works create space for individual experiences to arise.

FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTATIONS

FACE ON
Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, 29th September 2011
www.halles.be

FACE ON
Open Latitudes Festival, Latitudes Contemporaines, LILLE 16th June 2011
www.latitudescontem

poraines.com

FIGURE THIS
Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, BAGNOLET 24th, 25th & 26th May 2011
www.rencontreschoregraphiques.com

FACE ON (premiere)
New Territories @ Tramway, GLASGOW, 8th March 2011
www.newmoves.co.uk

FIGURE THIS
IETM@CCA, GLASGOW 5th November 2010
www.ietm.org

FACE ON
Choreography & performance - Anna Krzystek
Original sound score - Tom Murray
Video installation - Daniela De Paulis, Anna Krzystek and Tim Nunn.

In Figure This the figure, the central element in the series, was brought closer to the viewer through her physical acts of doing and suspended periods of not doing, opening up the possibility for a shared space.

Face On looks at exploring ideas of shared space further by inviting the viewer to experience a sublime state of intimacy as the figure ontologically connects to a sequence of changing situations.

Imbedded within this state of intimacy the figure comes face to face with the implications of performing and performance, of being observed and observing, of exposing the mechanisms and dealing with the consequences.

Face On is co-produced as part of the Open Latitudes network in co-operation with partners in Lille, Brussels, Warsaw, Lausanne and Mons funded by the European Commission EACEA, Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency culture Programme.

Additional funding & support from Creative Scotland, The Work Room, Dance Base, The Nightingale, Tramway, New Territories and Oblivia.

FIGURE THIS
Choreography & performance - Anna Krzystek
Original sound score - Tom Murray
Video installation - Tim Nunn, Daniela De Paulis and Anna Krzystek

FIGURE THIS aims to observe the figure more closely, unveiling newly found aspects of her presence.
The figure moves through a series of choreographic acts that sees her pushed to extremes. These acts are compulsive and enduring, they commence and end without warning leaving the figure suspended in periods of “not doing”. It is precisely in these gaps of “not doing’ that the figure is revealed and a sense of closeness can be felt.

The objects that surround the figure are remains from TEST and STILL, they quietly hold their own presence within the whole.

Commissioned by New Territories. Co-commissioned by Les Halles.
Additional funding & support from Scottish Arts Council Choreographic Fellowship Award, CCA, Dance Base, The Work Room, Dance House, Tramway, Oblivia and Balance.

Premiere: New Territories 2009
Tour Dates include Brussels, Warsaw, BDE Birmingham and IETM Glasgow

STILL
Choreography & performance -Anna Krzystek
Original sound score - Tom Murray
Film installation – Lucy Cash

As TEST presents an ongoing prelude to something that may or may not happen STILL visits the next phase of anticipation.
STILL exists on a fine line between performance and installation. It explores the openness of an installation whilst still utilizing structural tensions and the clearly defined frontal perspective found in theatre and film; finding moments during which the performer is able to fall in and out of focus giving space and time for the spectator’s eye to freely engage with other collaborative aspects of the work.

"(STILL) certainly side-stepped the mainstream with persuasive conviction, producing work that rewarded necessary concentration by sending our thoughts and imaginings into energising freefall." The Herald

Commissioned by New Territories 2007. Additional funding & support from Scottish Arts Council, CCA, Tramway, Dance Base, Dance House and Balance.

Premier: New Territories, Tramway, Glasgow 2007
Tour dates include Paris, Roubaix, Brussels, London, Alsager and Aberdeen.

TEST
Choreography and performance – Anna Krzystek
Original sound score – Tom Murray

TEST exists as a series of in between moments.
From the beginning we share the performer’s introspective, yet powerful, presence, which immediately forms tensions between herself and the space, herself and time and herself & the audience.
Within all its sparse quiescence TEST radiates physical exertion to a point where the audience, no longer just observers, become accomplices in this seemingly ongoing waiting game.
TEST eliminates all sense of predictability and acts as a test to exercise concentration.

TEST was made possible with funding & support from Scottish Arts Council and CCA.

Premier: CCA, Glasgow 2005
Tour dates include Brussels, Vilnius, Bytom, NRLA, Aberdeen and Edinburgh