PROGRAM: KOPFLOS / MASTERS OF COMPLICATIONS DANCE PERFORMANCE-SWITZERLAND SITE & TIME: SOUTH GATE SPACE,798 ART DISTRICT/SEPTEMBER 29-30,20:00PM ARTISTS: ARTHUR KUGGELEYN & CO - SWITZERLAND CHOREGRAPHY: ARTHUR KUGGELEYN SUPPORTER: SWISS ARTS COUNCIL PRO HELVETIA CURATORS: JING XING TICKET: 80RMB RESERVATION AND STUDENT TICKET: 60RMB CHOREOGRAPHY: ARTHUR KUGGELEYN MUSIC: CHRISTIAN MEYER LIGHTING DESIGN: ALAIN GARCERON PHOTOGRAPHY: J.L. DELMOTTE (MASTERS OF COMPLICATIONS)CAROLINE MINJOLLE (KOPFLOS) DANCE: CATHERINE JODOINANNE GA?LLE LENHERR ANNA TENTANABIH AMARAOUIMATTHIEU BURNERMARION DILLEMMA RIBBIN

The Company

Arthur Kuggeleyn & Co has been established in 1998. Since then the company developed around 20 pieces and performed them all over Europe. Continuity throughout the pulsating rhythm of ritualized movement and acoustic as well as visual loops is the main feature of all the company's choreographies. This choreographic style is called "trance dance". The company's creations confront the audience with an uncompromising point of departure coupled by taste for breaking established representative codes that continues to provoke uncertainty, astonishment and strong reactions.

The Performance

"Masters of Complication" follows a choreographically system in which the dancers and their actions may organically evolve. Like a game ordered by invisible and open rules "Masters of Complication" organizes itself as a continuo of movement punctuated by interferences and interactions, all this describe and question our ways of thinking and acting. How do we deal with each other, how do we deal with life? Where resides our suffering, where our lust, where our pain and where our energy? What on stage is resolved at one moment even with the aid of the public, here confronts the spectator as open and personal questions.

The Choreographer

Of Dutch origin actor and choreographer Arthur Kuggeleyn figured for a long time as director of RA.M.M. Theatre, in Berlin, Germany. Since 1997 he works in Berlin as well as in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his company ARTHUR KUGGELEYN + CO. is working in close collaboration with the local Th¨Śâtre de l'Arsenic.

Arthur Kuggeleyn's artistic strife is directed towards taking risks as regards content as well as form. In close collaboration with dancers, actors and musicians, especially German composer Christian Meyer-Mal he developed a unique and consistent choreographic style which he calls "trance dance".