Duet for Emilio Gutierrez & Thomas Noone

Premiere 21/22 of July 2012 Barcelona, Spain 

Thomas Noone has invited Rootlessroot to create a part of a full-evening performance that will be composed by 3 different choreographers from Spain, Israel and Greece. Rootlessroot's creation is conceived in contrary to the concept of a traditional “sit-down-and-face-torwards dance performance. Three-3 images of different worlds and complete confusion accompanied by a time-lasting visual installation, created in collaboration with Ilianna Skoulaki, and music by Vasilis Mantzoukis.

KIRERU (Death of an Artist)

by Rootlessroot World premiere autumn 2012 Athens - Greece

Jozef and Linda (Rootlessroot) have invited for their new creation in Greece the musician and composer John Parish (www.johnparish.com) known from his own recordings as well as his compositions, productions and performances with his long term collaborator PJ Harvey and his work with artists such as Eels, Tracy Chapman, 16 Horsepower and more. The visual concept is being developed in collaboration with the Director-Production Designer Paris Mexis and the costumes are being designed by Isabelle Lhoas. They will all be working together on the structured destruction of the artist's body and soul. The music will be performed live by John Parish and his band. Soon, more images and sound news about the new collaboration and the live shows.

BULLDOG ANT

New Commission for Rootlessroot by St. Gallen Theater Premiere 1 of November 2012 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Rootlessroot will be creating a new performance for 12 dancers on original music composed by Vasilis Mantzoukis. Perfect Piece for Perfect Country is a working frame where we will be exploring the laughter. Laughter as an excess, sacrifice, wastefulness that has power to demolish all serious thoughts about ourselves, our opinions and our prides. As Foucalt says: "In laughter we have the liberation of forgetting: stepping out of history with dance, into labyrinthine lightness of the moment".