MAGDALENA REITER

Upcoming dates:
10.05.2025 –12. Biennale of Contemporary Dance in Slovenia, Gibanica 2025 – main programme; Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
11.08.2025: Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Munich, Germany
05.09.2025 – Platforma Festival, Maribor
30.10.2025 – Zagreb Dance Center, Croatia

Quartet is a performance for two dancers and two cameras. This research excursion is dedicated to the inner and outer architectures of our relationships. The cameras monitor the action live, acting as a mirror and voyeur; they emphasize and change what is already visible and reveal what is hidden.
The primary processes of construction of the choreography and the performance itself are reduction, duplication and montage. Reduction to the most basic elements of relationship, movement and physical proximity. Walking, touching, looking, all of which make up the score of the quartett.
The gaze of the duo, the gaze of the cameras, the gaze of the spectator. And the play, as the essence of a relationship and of the very act of performaning arts. The play of possible combinations of reduced and re-expanded elements. The central point between the body and the two-dimensional image is the play of opposites between pleasure and violence, coexistence and alienation.
The fabricated story, shown from different perspectives, reveals itself to the public and invites to follow the construction of the stage reality itself.

Excerpts from reviews:
Her work is an exciting crossing of boundaries between dance, performance, and moving image.The opening, in particular, is impressively well done, marked by enormous technical and dance precision. 
It is visually striking to follow the two in their movements while at the same time seeing the film images in the background. Through the clever play with distances, camera positions, and angles, thrilling scenes emerge again and again in the overall view.
Michael Schleicher, Merkur.de, 12.08.2025

The performance Quartet by choreographer Magdalena Reiter turns out to be a striking fusion of stage reality and recording technique, which duplicates, reproduces and even emotionally nuances the various sequences of the dancing couple, seemingly deepening the reality through the recording technique, and recreating a cinematic vision.
Daliborka Podboj, Parda plesa, 20.01.2024

We are witnessing more and more windows through which you can see yourself entering through the door on the opposite side. Because this is all about perceptual spaces.The feeling of distortion has much less to do with the distortion of the image itself (e.g. with the technical processing of the video) than with the distortion of the one’s inner world. A well-thought-out choreographic process that draws the viewer’s feelings into the intimate feeling and perception of the “characters”.
Radhani Pernarčič, Neodvisni, 19.01.2024