Nina Traub (2024)
Dates of residency: Term 5： 9/9~10/4 2024
Nina Traub was born in 1992. She is a choreographer, dancer, and multidisciplinary artist from Tel Aviv, currently based in Paris. Her practice investigates movement through temperature, music, angles, and landscape. Approaching the body from sculptural and plastic perspectives, she works with a range of materials, colors, and textures—often creating the visual environments of her works herself. Her stage works run alongside drawing; through this parallel practice, she clarifies her artistic choices and deepens her research. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, and has trained from an early age in various professional dance institutions.
During her stay at SAIKONEON, she focused intensively on choreography and music-making in the studio. In the midst of a busy schedule, she also climbed mountains within Yamanashi Prefecture—an important part of her research and central to the work’s concept. She later carried out a filmed performance shoot at an outdoor location, leaving a clear record of the project’s outcomes. Below is the artist’s statement.
Mountain is stability and security; it allows you to look far ahead. It is also solitude, silence, desolation, and it resembles a hunched back. It has hardness and softness, a slope and a peak. It can be round, or sometimes pointy; at times it looks like a rock that can graze a cloud. The mountain sees everything but is far away from everyone. It knows how to look into the distance and detect details. It accumulates. It takes thousands of years until a mountain becomes one. It is almost impossible to see the way it changes. The simplicity and wholesomeness of a mountain can attract and threaten at the same time.
Mountain will be a brown solo. A bent-backed mountain in its back, brown floor and walls. The performers will be dressed in brown as if created from the same matter. The space will transform with a gentle, slow movement. Solo by solo, image by image, mountains will try to move slowly, without us noticing they change. The shades of brown will indicate the humidity levels and heaviness of the mass, the temperature and time of day, whether subterranean or aboveground.
Three instrumentalists will sit and stand alternately in a row at the back of the space as a horizon. They will play unceasing music loops in rising and falling waves, creating a space to stare at and gravitate towards. As the mountain slowly changes and accumulates without us noticing, so will the music in this piece.
Nina Traub (2024)
Dates of residency: Term 5： 9/9~10/4 2024
Nina Traub was born in 1992. She is a choreographer, dancer, and multidisciplinary artist from Tel Aviv, currently based in Paris. Her practice investigates movement through temperature, music, angles, and landscape. Approaching the body from sculptural and plastic perspectives, she works with a range of materials, colors, and textures—often creating the visual environments of her works herself. Her stage works run alongside drawing; through this parallel practice, she clarifies her artistic choices and deepens her research. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, and has trained from an early age in various professional dance institutions.
During her stay at SAIKONEON, she focused intensively on choreography and music-making in the studio. In the midst of a busy schedule, she also climbed mountains within Yamanashi Prefecture—an important part of her research and central to the work’s concept. She later carried out a filmed performance shoot at an outdoor location, leaving a clear record of the project’s outcomes. Below is the artist’s statement.
Mountain is stability and security; it allows you to look far ahead. It is also solitude, silence, desolation, and it resembles a hunched back. It has hardness and softness, a slope and a peak. It can be round, or sometimes pointy; at times it looks like a rock that can graze a cloud. The mountain sees everything but is far away from everyone. It knows how to look into the distance and detect details. It accumulates. It takes thousands of years until a mountain becomes one. It is almost impossible to see the way it changes. The simplicity and wholesomeness of a mountain can attract and threaten at the same time.
Mountain will be a brown solo. A bent-backed mountain in its back, brown floor and walls. The performers will be dressed in brown as if created from the same matter. The space will transform with a gentle, slow movement. Solo by solo, image by image, mountains will try to move slowly, without us noticing they change. The shades of brown will indicate the humidity levels and heaviness of the mass, the temperature and time of day, whether subterranean or aboveground.
Three instrumentalists will sit and stand alternately in a row at the back of the space as a horizon. They will play unceasing music loops in rising and falling waves, creating a space to stare at and gravitate towards. As the mountain slowly changes and accumulates without us noticing, so will the music in this piece.
