3 000 seconds

Alexandra Waierstall's pieces are characterized by a fine and multi-layered visual language, an invitation to somnambulistic worlds existing between poetry and melancholy.

'3 000 seconds' is a performance charged with a drive into how we imagine the future, with underlying notions on love and nature. Throughout the performance the view is changing. The emerging choreography is performed by two bodies and an object. A series of images, one retrieved by another altering our perception of a luminous landscape, progressively bringing us back to the very beginning.

This performance is the first part of a research cycle titled 'Future Diaries' The performance is supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture Cyprus within the program Terpsichore.

The award winning artist Alexandra Waierstall, (most promising artist of the year 2013 from the City of Düsseldorf, Germany, and finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protege Award 2012 - 2013) is a choreographer and artist. Her conceptually - physically charged investigations are absorbed into choreographies, installations, situations, sounds, texts and images.

Alexandra Waierstall (1979) born in England and raised in Cyprus is a gratuate from the Master in Choreography of ArteZ Anhem. She has received numerous choreographic awards in Cyprus and Germany amongst them the 2013 most promising artist award from the city of Düsseldorf NRW. Her choreographic work has been selected and supported by networks like Aerowaves, Modul dance, IDEE - Initiatives in Dance through European Exchange and Chin-A- moves. In 2012 she was finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protége Award. Based in Düsseldorf her work is co-produced by Tanzhaus NRW since 2007. Together with her father visual artist Horst Weierstall they have founded TheArtSpace – a project room initiating movements of thought within the different art disciplines. TheArtSpace also functions as the premisses for her own artistic work, in order to install the possibility of a working place for a continuous creative process. Alexnadra Waierstall has presented her choreographic works in Europe, Canada, Brazil, Korea and China.

Concept / Choreography / Creation: Alexandra Waierstall

Performers / Contributors: Evangelia Randou, Harry Koushos

Artistic support: Irina Raskin

Sound: Marios Takoushis, Alexandra Waierstall

Lighting design: Alexander Jotovic, Alexandra Waierstall

Graphic design: Despina Kannaourou

Production Manager: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis