Ivana Müller/ I’M company
Ivana Müller/ I’M company
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English, French, or with subtitles in any language
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Ivana Müller is a choreographer, artist and author. She grew up in Croatia but has lived and worked most of her life as a foreigner, creating dance and theatre performances, installations, texts, video lectures, audio pieces, guided tours and web ‘works’. Some of the recurring subjects in her work are the body and its representation, self-invention, the place of the imaginary and the imagination, the notion of authorship and the relationship between performer and spectator.
Productions such as How Heavy Are My Thoughts, While We Were Holding It Together, Playing Ensemble Again and Again, 60 Minutes of Opportunism or Partituur have been described as ‘uncompromising theatre, scrutinizing concepts and ideas that are usually taken for granted’ and ‘tributes to the power of imagination’.
Ivana Müller is one of the founding members of the Amsterdam-based collective LISA (2004-2009), a collaborative, productional and discursive platform. In 2007 she received the Charlotte Köhler Prize from the Prins Bernhard Fund (NL) for her oeuvre, as well as the Impulse Festival and Goethe Institute Prize for While We Were Holding It Together (2006).
In 2009 she started her own company: I’M company.
International:
Ivana Müller lives in Amsterdam and Paris and works internationally. Müller’s work has a cult following in more than 20 countries throughout Europe, the USA and Asia. Among the venues and festivals that have hosted the work of Müller and her company are Springdance Festival (Utrecht, NL), STUK (Leuven, B), Kaaitheater (Brussels, B), Kampnagel (Hamburg, D), Hebbel am Ufer and Theatertreffen (Berlin, D), Parc de la Villette (Paris, F), Centre National de la Danse (Pantin, F), Théâtre de Vanves (F), Dance Theatre Workshop (New York, USA), National Museum of Singapore, and many others.
Film: Nils De Coster
Working Titles, photo: Barbara Palffy
Dance