STILL LIVES, Skopje

Concept and Realisation: Isabelle Schad & Bruno Pocheron (Germany/France)
Choreography: Cie Isabelle Schad / Good Work Productions
Artistic assistance and Collaborator: Ivailo Dimitrov
Sound and light: Bruno Pocheron
Original concept: Ben Anderson, Manuel Pelmus, Bruno Pocheron, Isabelle Schad.
Concept development and principles for the workshop with local participants: Frédéric Gies, Manuel Pelmus, Bruno Pocheron, Isabelle Schad .
Co-production: Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Goethe Institute Skopje.
Performed by: Biljana Stefanovska, Maja Taneva, Nataša Geleva, Marija Stojanovska, Nadica Vasilevska, Bojan Kraljevski, Tina Tasevska, Aneta Spaseska, Tatjana Ilić, Katerina Petrovska, Maja Kambovska, Elena Stankova, Liljana Pešovska, Irina Stefanovska, Ana Urumovska, Nigjar Nagavci, Luana Basha, Sahar Sadiki, Petra Schön, Biljana Pavlova, Iskra Dimitrova, Jane Danevski, Dragana Zarevska, Kliment Poposki, Viktorija Dineva, Ivailo Dimitrov, Isabelle Schad.
The project is supported by: Goethe-Institut Skopje and French Culural Center Skopje as part of German Weeks 2009, Senatskanzlei.
Production: Good Work Production
Parts of Still Lives were co-produced and funded by: Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti, Festival Stadt Deiner Liebe (Halle), Fonds Darstellende Künste e. V., Goethe-Institut Bukarest, Kulturverwaltung des Landes Berlin, Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille), Monty (Antwerpen), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Sophiensaele (Berlin) TANZtheater INTERNATIONAL (Hannover), Potsdamer Tanztage/ Fabrik (Potsdam),Gessneralle Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Tanz.In Bern.
Contact: susannebeyer@gmx.de

With Still Livesevery city gets its very own portrait: on the streets of the respective cities, passers-by were asked for their thoughts and comments on a photograph by Jeff Wall depicting an urban scene. Their responses are the soundtrack of the Still Livesstage project and reveal much about social backgrounds, personal perspectives and city life.
Versions of Still Liveshave been created for Bucharest, Halle, Lille, Essen, Berlin, Hanover, Antwerp, Potsdam, Zürich and Bern. The recorded commentaries are juxtaposed with scenic and choreographic elements performed by the group and amateur participants from the city in question, combining to create an impressive, thought-provoking multimedia performance on the subject of reality and fiction, illusion and manipulation. 
Still Livesis a part of the Good Work Productions project, an artists‘network which was initiated by Isabelle Schad, Bruno Pocheron and Ben Anderson in 2003. Good Work examines the representation, presentation and perception of the body on stage as well as its status and visibility in society, and aims to circulate ideas, knowledge, information, body practices and choreographic styles by means of a horizontal work structure. 
Further information: www.isabelle-schad.net, http://stilllives-goodwork.blogspot.com/