arianne hoffmann dances

—-  TANZTAGE 2013 —-

For my new solo “Vessel, resonating” I built a frame around the idea of resonance, through which I look at body and movement techniques that have been important to my personal dance history and the way I assembled corporeal knowledge in the past two decades. 

The display of choreographic skill isn’t as important as the irreverent treatment of it, since I recognize that what determines the “skill set”  in each perspective on technique varies as much as the physical skills a technique aims to instill. So I am generally not too interested in “how to convey expertise”; rather I am interested in subtlety and contrast, and in the shifting of awareness, values and frame of mind. 

body as sound, body as animal, body as female, body as shadow, body as interiority, body as theory, body as imagination. 

I am hoping to create more space for fully corporeal and sensual experiences in and around me with “Vessel, resonating”. Let’s see. 

Performances are Monday, Jan 7th and Tuesday, Jan 8th at 8:30pm at Tanztage Festival

Sophiensaele (Festsaal)

Sophienstr. 18, Berlin

Tickets under 030-280 927 93

If you are interested in the other artists on the festival program, click here!

without harp or fiddle

video by arianne hoffmann. screened at Anatomy Riot #45: In Loving Memory / Everything Must Go!

Los Angeles, Jan22nd, 2012.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

The faithless coldness of the times;

Ring out, ring out thy mournful rhymes,

But ring the fuller minstrel in.

(“Ring Out, Wild Bells” by Alfred Lord Tennyson)

impermanent and disposable 

for ANATOMY RIOT at the Poor Dog Group space in downtown LA. 

“sound” at REDCAT Studio. july 2010.

sound support by aaron drake. 

visit this wiki site to read some of my scores

Death Becomes Her Phoenix

Audrey Malone and Ari Hoffmann conduct a burial ceremony at the Craftswoman House in Pasadena for Body Stories, a night of performance curated by Christine Suarez. 

Anatomy Riot Sampler. I am the one in the blue jump suit. 

Classic bag piece. 

Anatomy Riot #21

Bricklayers With A Sense of Humor at Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC. With Maureen Dunn, Rachel Lopez, Ally Voye. Nov 2009.