Fleck&Flecker is a dance duet. It is a piece about… partnership. From the personal to the political. It touches and touches on, moves through, around and with, ideas about getting together, staying together, morphing, growing, adapting and compromising, sometimes… With Ludwig’s signature twist, Fleck&Flecker incorporates animated projection, absurdist and sketchy, like the minds of its creators.
Fleck&Flecker will be premiering in August 2012 at the Subiaco Arts Centre Upstairs Studio.
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For the past week Emma and Cass have been in Stuttgart participating in the 16th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival, a special year dedicated to the late Tanja Liedtke. The festival is held in the Robert Bosch studio theatre at Treffpunkt Rotebuhlplatz, a fascinating complex of studios, halls, spaces and staircases.
18 solo works from around the world were presented over three nights and ours, BodySong, was presented as the final work on the second night of performances.
Cass danced Emma’s extremely demanding piece superbly, with heightened energy, charisma and interpretation. It was extremely well received. Following the performance, the dancers and choreographers sat informally on stage to receive audience questions.
The Stuttgart Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival doubles as a “competition” for which between six – eight works are chosen for the fourth night gala and subsequently six awards (three for choreography and three for dance) are given by a jury consisting of five distinguished, international figures from the dance world. Cass and BodySong were chosen to be presented in the gala along with seven other works from Israel, Chad, England, Portugal and Germany. And Cass was most deservedly awarded the third prize for best dancer.
This festival is yet another brilliant platform for new work to be seen, tried, tasted and responded to. It is also a wonderful arena for creators and performers to push their boundaries and experiment a little further conceptually, theatrically and physically.
Such events as this are so important for meeting and networking with other people from your medium – opening doors for new opportunities and creating connections for the future.

Already in the second month of 2012, it is hard to believe…
Emma is back from judging on the jury of the 40th anniversary Prix de Lausanne competition for aspiring young dancers in Switzerland.
Now the Ludwig pair are back focusing on the development of their duet work, Fleck&Flecker. Here are some images taken during rehearsals yesterday.
The project is growing in its fanciful form and function and is in negotiations for its premiere season in Perth this year.

The major project occupying us here at Ludwig 24/7 is a new two person work called Fleck and Flecker. The seeds for F&F were planted during our residency at Impulstanz Festival in July and August this year.
Fleck and Flecker draws inspiration, as well as its name, from a self-portrait by Karl Anton Fleck, a postcard of which we stumbled across at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Our work is exploring one’s relationship with oneself within, during and around one’s relationship with another…
Recently we received Australia Council funding support to aid the further development of this work.
We won’t give away more for now, but we will try to keep you up-to-date with its growth and evolution, and  all going to plan, we will perform it for you in the New Year…

From March 15-18 2012, Stuttgart is hosting its 16th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival at TREFFPUNKT Rotebühlplatz and Ludwig will be there. BodySong, a new work created by Emma and performed by Cass, has been chosen along with 17 other solo works from around the world. The Solo-Dance–Theatre Festival celebrates and showcases equally choreographers and solo artists, so we are extremely excited to be involved in this prestigious event.

Hello everyone who follows our blog posts. Sorry it’s been a wee while. We’re in Vienna if you didn’t already know. Impulstanz has put us up in a lovely apartment in Burggasse for a month and we are profiting from seeing 22 performances which are here as part of the festival. So far we have seen nine. They have ranged from the extreme mad pointe-shoe choreography of LaLaLa Human Steps to the extreme mad in-your-face theatrics of Jan Fabre. There’s some in between stuff but for the most part here work tends to be in the realm of the extreme! What we will take from it we will all see…
We are creating. We have a studio that we use seven days a week and yep, we’re making a work for us, on us and not only about us. Fleck and Flecker make a little appearance as well. It’s going swimmingly. We like it! We’re writing text, making music, making animation and generally luxuriating in creativity for a month. It makes us happy and determined so watch this space.

Here are a couple of images taken by photographer Marco Mancini of the finals of the Rome International Choreography Competition. It was interesting adapting our two solos for the enormity of the outdoor stage at Rome’s National Academy of Dance. The lighting rig was quite extraordinary and it was great working with lighting designer Franco Marri who proved incredibly helpful.


As you may already have heard Emma was awarded third place for “Crossing Satie” and performed it in the Gala for Italian national television on the 6th of July and Cass received the Fausto Maria Franchi prize for outstanding performance with his work “Solo 1.5″.

Dear readers and most lovely supportive friends and fans,
‘Tis true, we are halfway to getting our “Pozible” goal of $3000 going towards our flights to Rome. We are both very much looking forward to this opportunity of performing our own work on an international stage and sharing with you the experience of it all.
Thanks ever so to the following people who have helped us so far:

Many thanks to absolute darlings:

Gwenda Jarred

Tessa Durack of Frond in Darwin www.facebook/frondstore

Nannette Norris

Rick Norris

Alison Kirkness

Agnes Michelet

John Morton

Leisha Aberle

Tim Auld

Bernard Mckenna

Kaitlyn & Cyndi Wood

Nina Harris

So so many heartfelt thanks to the wonderful:

Tanya Nossiter & Gilles Lazerges

Travel Design Professionals www.traveldesign.com.au

Paul Sultana

Gary Schliemann

Clair Medhurst

Diane Hunter

Andrew McGuiness of AMCG Legal

A million and one thanks to astonishingly generous and fabulous:

Leonie Walker

Catherine and David Saxelby

We’ve always found this violin concerto andante of Prokofiev utterly enchanting and what better way to interpret its delicacy, subtlety and charm than with a stop motion ballet for babushka dolls. Having sat happily at home for a couple of years we felt it was high time they earned their lodging and so came about this pretty little number.
Well, not quite so quickly and easily. Stop motion is a time consuming and patience demanding pastime. Not to mention the great many hours Cass spent editing to get all the elements right and the musicality perfected.
Enjoy the offering.

Yup, we’re going to Rome to present two new solo works at the Premio Roma Danza International Choreography Competition. A pricey but truly important and growing experience for me and Cass.

So what are these solo works? Well, some of you saw “Crossing Satie” at Strut’s Prime Cut season this June. The work has been on a long journey of evolution from its seedling stages during my Strut Seed Residency with Jo Pollitt last year. It flitted across a stage in Noumea in white before turning red for this incarnation and continues on a path of development. Rome, I’m sure, will see yet another stage of its development at the beautiful outdoor venue, il Teatro Grande.

Cass’s solo has been a mammoth undertaking in true Cass style, taking on all the elements of production from the music, the text, the movement and performance and importantly, the projected animation. An eight minute exploration of self, ego, stability and instability, this is a dark and light work which should have enormous effect on the stage in Rome and the audience will get an honest and entire Mortimer Eipper experience.

Of course we’ll be holding each other’s hand through the course of the competition with its ups and downs.

But, yes, dear readers we do need a little help from you to get there.
http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/1084/description/0/0
We have created a Pozible site which is a crowd fund-raising site and we need to raise around $6000 before the 30th of June to cover our flights and some accommodation. It would be absolutely wonderful of you if you could check out this site or even donate to us directly via the Ludwig site.
You will not be without reward. We will be filling you in on the duration of the adventure via blogs, photos and video footage.