Alexandra Wingate
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Four persons calmly wait on the edges of a white dance floor while we, the audience, enter the theatre at WUK performing art, Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, in Vienna. A warm white wash lights hundreds of precisely organized A5 cards spread out on the stage floor. Once we sit, one of the persons introduces herself as…
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On October 3, 2025, I went to the performance Constellation #4 – Shows for Futures by Animalarium Dance Collective. I don’t go to performances that often anymore and, honestly, I only went to support my friends and colleagues. The idea of using systemic constellation work in a performance had my eyes rolling a bit beforehand and I…
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Processes as performanceAnimalarium Dance Collective has developed a practice combining improvisation, choreography and systemic constellation work, called Choreo-Constellating. They share this practice in workshops and performances which are entangled and allow different levels of participation in the work. A workshop at Zukunftshof and one at WUK performing arts preceded the most recent performance at the…
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Your piece is titled Constellation #4 – Shows for Futures. What lies behind the idea of a “Constellation” – and what makes this way of working unique for you? The term “constellation” signals a refusal to center the individual. In Animalarium´s Constellations we are interested in exploring interdependence beyond the human: in the ways bodies,…
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Choreo-Constellating: An Artistic Practice of Embodied Storytelling and Collective Sense-Making In a time of increasing complexity, fragmentation, and systemic crisis, how might we collectively and artistically sense and respond to forces shaping our lived experiences? How can the body become a site of knowledge, not only for personal expression but also for collective understanding and…
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A interview with Liv Schellander and Alexandra Wingate talkning about Animalarium, Choreo- Constellating and the Perform Europe project Animalariums´ Constellations. By Ingeborg Zackariassen. Published by 3:e Våningen September 2024. Link to interview.
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We are interested in the relationship between “Being” and “Showing” in our own field of contemporary dance, but also as a factor in show formats such as sports, self-produced material for social media, live streamed pornography, surveillance footage. And in show formats where humans are not the primary performative subject / object such as in…
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In our first series of works, Shows for Extinction, Shows for Shows, Animalarium – a pop-up Zoo and Animalarium, we use the screen as a medium to challenge the threshold of how we experience live and recorded. Our aim is to explore methods that allow Animalarium to have two or more show formats happening simultaneously…
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At the core of our approach to making and presenting our first works Animalarium – a pop-up Zoo and Animalarium, is a playful spontaneous creativity akin to how we played as children. It is the approach that underlines how we make, build, and transform our movement materials and scores. And it is recognisable in how we utilize costume…
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The author and literature critic J.MCoetzee writes “And indeed it is on creatures least able to bear confinement- creatures who conform least to Descartes’s picture of the soul as a pea imprisoned in a shell, to which further imprisonment is irrelevant-that we see the most devastating effects: in zoos, in laboratories, institutions where the flow…
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