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Laugh - by and with Antonia Baehr

"I like to laugh. I laugh often. I am often seen laughing."
Laugh is a piece about laughing as laughing. For the length of the piece Antonia Baehr explores this expression as a sovereign entity, in separation from causal baggage; jokes, tickles, narrative, humor, joy, looking at the thing itself: the sound and shape, the music, choreography and drama, the rhythm and the gesture of laughter. Comedy is not her goal, but contamination is an unavoidable by-product that sometimes contagiously trades sides of the ‘fourth wall’.

"Rire/Laugh/Lachen" premiered in April 2008 at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, France.




Antonia Baehr, Biography

Antonia Baehr is a choreographer, filmmaker and dramaturge. What characterizes her is a non-disciplinary work and a method of collaboration with different people, using a game-structure with switching roles: each person is alternately director / author and performer for the other one.
She graduated in Film- and Media Arts at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Valie Export (1996) and obtained a DAAD-grant and a Merit Scholarship for the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. There she completed her Master in Performance with Lin Hixson of the performance group Goat Island and began collaborating with William Wheeler. Since 2000 she is based in Berlin. She was co-organizing “Labor Sonor“, experimental music and performance series, at KuLe from 2001 to 2003, and co-hosted the festival “Radioriff“ that took place in December 2003 at Ausland, Berlin. From 2006 until 2008 she was associated artist in residence at “Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers“ in France. In 2008 she published her book "Rire / Laugh / Lachen". Her productions include: "Holding hands" (2000), "Un après-midi" (2003), "Larry Peacock" (2005), "Merci" (2006), "Rire / Laugh / Lachen" (2008) and "For Faces" (2011).
Antonia Baehr works a.o. with Lindy Annis, Gaetan Bulourde, Valérie Castan, Antonija Livingstone, Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann and William Wheeler. She is the producer of the horse whisperer and dancer Werner Hirsch, the musician and choreographer Henri Fleur, and the composer Henry Wilt.
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