Cass Mortimer Eipper - Ludwig
Cass Mortimer Eipper is a performer, choreographer, occasional animator and film maker, and co-director of Ludwig. Cass trained at the Australian Ballet school and performed with the West Australian Ballet from 2006-2009 before embarking on a career as an independent dancer and choreographer in 2010.
As co-director of Ludwig, Cass has created numerous new dance works, many of which draw on his passion for film and animation. In his short solo work Solo 1.5 (developed as part of a 2011 STRUT dance SEED residency) Cass explored the multiple internal dialogues that exist within the human psyche. Solo 1.5 combined Cass's unique physicality with a series of brilliant animated projections to re-create the tussle of conflicting thoughts and emotions at work within the mind. Cass performed this work at the 2011 Rome International Choreography Competition and was awarded the Fausto Maria Franchi Award for most outstanding performance.
With partner and fellow Ludwig director Emma Sandall, Cass has also recently undertaken an Impulstanz artist residency in Vienna where the choreographers developed a new mid-length work entitled Fleck and Flecker. The work is inspired by Austrian artist Karl Anton Fleck's portrait painting of the same name and is based on the psychology of partnering and companionship. Fleck and Flecker is planned to premiere in 2012.
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Premiere season planned for August 2012.
Performed and choreographed by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall (Ludwig).
Developed during an artistic residency at Impulstanz Festival, Vienna in 2011 Fleck and Flecker is a new dance work by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall exploring partnering and companionship, from the personal to the political.
The work reveals the pair's penchant for animation, as they transform themselves into two dimensional cartoon-esque characters whose lives and emotions play out on-screen and onstage.
Ranging from the intimate, the abstract, the scientific and the absurd, the choreographers tease apart these ideas of what it means 'to be together' often using their personal and creative relationship with one another as a guide for their journey.
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To create this work Cass drew on his inner dialogue, his stream of consciousness thinking, and the contradictions he discovered to be ever-present features of his psyche.
"We all have opposing forces present in our minds pulling us from one extreme to another, so we tend to operate by working in halves, thirds or when you've really lost it, infinite miniature personalities battling against each other."
Solo 1.5 was developed as part of a 2011 STRUT SEED residency and is the beginning of Cass's creative exploration of the continuous inner dialogues at work within us all.
Cass performed this short work at the Rome International Choreography Competition, 2011 and was awarded the Fausto Maria Franchi prize for outstanding performance in contemporary dance.
As co-director of Ludwig, Cass has created numerous new dance works, many of which draw on his passion for film and animation. In his short solo work Solo 1.5 (developed as part of a 2011 STRUT dance SEED residency) Cass explored the multiple internal dialogues that exist within the human psyche. Solo 1.5 combined Cass's unique physicality with a series of brilliant animated projections to re-create the tussle of conflicting thoughts and emotions at work within the mind. Cass performed this work at the 2011 Rome International Choreography Competition and was awarded the Fausto Maria Franchi Award for most outstanding performance.
With partner and fellow Ludwig director Emma Sandall, Cass has also recently undertaken an Impulstanz artist residency in Vienna where the choreographers developed a new mid-length work entitled Fleck and Flecker. The work is inspired by Austrian artist Karl Anton Fleck's portrait painting of the same name and is based on the psychology of partnering and companionship. Fleck and Flecker is planned to premiere in 2012.
www.ludwig.com.au
Fleck and Flecker
(full length work in development)Premiere season planned for August 2012.
Performed and choreographed by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall (Ludwig).
Developed during an artistic residency at Impulstanz Festival, Vienna in 2011 Fleck and Flecker is a new dance work by Cass Mortimer Eipper & Emma Sandall exploring partnering and companionship, from the personal to the political.
The work reveals the pair's penchant for animation, as they transform themselves into two dimensional cartoon-esque characters whose lives and emotions play out on-screen and onstage.
Ranging from the intimate, the abstract, the scientific and the absurd, the choreographers tease apart these ideas of what it means 'to be together' often using their personal and creative relationship with one another as a guide for their journey.
Solo 1.5
To create this work Cass drew on his inner dialogue, his stream of consciousness thinking, and the contradictions he discovered to be ever-present features of his psyche.
"We all have opposing forces present in our minds pulling us from one extreme to another, so we tend to operate by working in halves, thirds or when you've really lost it, infinite miniature personalities battling against each other."
Solo 1.5 was developed as part of a 2011 STRUT SEED residency and is the beginning of Cass's creative exploration of the continuous inner dialogues at work within us all.
Cass performed this short work at the Rome International Choreography Competition, 2011 and was awarded the Fausto Maria Franchi prize for outstanding performance in contemporary dance.
