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Founded in 2000 with its production of "The Love Project," cabula6 is an international performance company based in Vienna and New York. We have members from around the world, and they come from various performance backgrounds including contemporary dance, theater, fine arts, journalism, music, Olympic gymnastics and film. Our work ranges from stage pieces, to site-specific works, to films, to projects of social intervention. Cabula6 focuses on the border between reality and fiction and the uneasy dialogue between a person's private sense of identity and its dynamic reception in a broader social context. We often search out non-traditional performance spaces that make it possible to walk the line between what is reality and what is constructed and which can bring audience members face to face with their assumptions and expectations about who they are. We experiment not only with the space but with the nature of public gatherings, often implicating audiences directly into the piece. We search for involved forms of audience collusion that give a sense of renewed agency to us as creators and performers, as well as to the audience as participants. Since 2003, led by co-directors Claudia Heu and Jeremy Xido, Cabula6 has performed in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Holland, Spain, Romania, Serbia, Chile and New York at such venues as the Sommerszene Salzburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Posthof, CCL Linz, The Advanced Performing Arts Festival, Tanztage Wien-Bukarest, Junge Hunde Festival, Buda Arts Center Belgium, The Equilibrium Festival in Tuscany, INFANT festival in Serbia, the Moving Pattern Festival NYC, and the ImPulstanz Festival in Vienna among others. We have been asked to participate in conferences around the world such as the Site Specific Theater Symposium at CUNY in NYC the Performing Rights Days in Vienna and the Transforma Think Tank in Portugal. Our "Crime:Europa" film series is currently showing in festivals in France, Belgium, Germany and Austria. In February 2007 we were in Santiago de Chile developing a new piece called "ON EARTH" funded by the Austrian and Swiss governments, the Tanzquartier in Vienna and UNIACC in Chile. The piece took place in a public bus that crossed the city. The next version of the piece will be seen in Tanzquartier Vienna in May 2007. www.cabula6.com JEREMY XIDO originally from Detroit, graduated cum laude in Painting and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York and trained at the Actor's Studio with Barbara Poitier, Arthur Penn and Andre Gregory. He has trained with Earl Mosley at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York, and Sasha Waltz, Jordi Cortes, Frey Faust, Ivan Wolfe and Curt Hayworth. He plays Capoeira Angola with Mestre João Grande, Mestre Laercio and Mestre Moraes in Brazil, New York, and Europe. In 1998 he was part of the Forum for Young Theater Artists at the Berlin Theater Festival and in 2000 received a Fulbright Grant to develop the company Cabula6 in Barcelona. He was Artist-in-Residence at General Eléctrica in Barcelona where, with Cabula6, he created "The Love Project" and "Eixam." In 2003 along with Claudia Heu he was commissioned by the Tanzquartier in Vienna to create the audio-tour and theater piece "Trace," which went on to premier in New York City, Bucharest, Vienna and Salzburg as part of the Sommerszene where it won the Audience Award. At the end of 2005, he created "Angel Central" as part of Tanzquartier's "Rent an Angel" project, and for 2006 Cabula6 was invited to take part in the Advancing Performing Arts Project (APAP), a European Union project organized by 6 theaters across Europe. For this residency he shot and directed a series of 6 documentary films investigating the reception of local criminal cases in 6 towns across Europe. The films focus less on the truth of the cases and more on the ways in which the people attempt to retell the stories of what happened in order to understand who they are and with whom they live. They are currently playing at the House of Representatives in Berlin and Art house theaters in Belgium. In 2006 along with Claudia Heu, he developed the piece "Café Bon Bon" in residency at the Choreographic Center in Linz and premiered it at the Austrian Dance Platform and Tanzquartier Wien in 2006. Their current project, "On Earth," has been commissioned by the Tanzquartier in Vienna and UNIACC in Santiago de Chile. It took place on a public bus, that crossed from one part of Santiago de Chile to the next, at the end of February 2007. The next version of ON EARTH is presented at Tanzquartier Vienna in May 2007 . Cabula6 has performed all over Europe, in the States and South America. As an actor and dancer Jeremy has worked with Esther Balfe and Tanztheater Wien, lawine_torrèn, Laroque Dance Company, Cia Diagonal, CATARACTS, Jay Scheib, the onnotheater, and at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin under the direction of Stephan Mueller. In the US he has worked at the California Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, and the Drama League in New York. He has shot several feature films including Brad Anderson's "The Machinist," as well as TV series for the BBC in London, TV3 in Barcelona and "Law and Order" in New York. In addition to the Crime Europa series he has completed 3 short films as a filmmaker: "Trace Vienna," "Trace Napoo," and "Monger's Cut." EHREN FORDYCE studied Comparative Literature as an undergraduate at Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude. Following that he received a post-graduate degree in Theatre Studies at the University of Paris, then returned to study directing with Anne Bogart and Andrei Serban at Columbia, where he received a Ph.D in Theatre and Drama Arts. He has taught writing and directing at Columbia University and Loyola College in Maryland, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Drama at Stanford University, where he heads the undergraduate directing program and teach classes on contemporary performance. His work as a director has included stagings of classical and contemporary drama, adaptations, operas and musicals, and performance art. Some of the principal pieces have been Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights," Ibsen's "The Wild Duck," Brecht and Weill's "The Threepenny Opera," Strauss' opera "Elektra," an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books, and Büchner's "Woyzeck" (for which he was the translator). As a writer, his background includes fields such as dramatic adaptation, poetry, translation, critical writing, and journalism. Currently he is working on a translation from the French of novelist Gérard Gavarry's "Hop la! One two three" for a French Cultural Services/PEN American Center grant on the best French writing of the 21st century. The novel invents a form of suburban, West-African, Parisian, shipyard, hybrid, Centaur slang to depict feelings of marginalization and their relation to violence on the outskirts of Paris. Negotiations are underway for publication by Dalkey Archive. In the past year he has also been working in documentary video, producing one short film and one full-length feature on contemporary performance in Europe. The feature, "Are We Real Yet?," concerns three performance groups -- Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, and Blast Theory -- who play on the boundaries between representation and reality. The film is being prepared for distribution on the Franco-German arts channel Arte. |
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