Friendly Fire
La Fête
Final Fiction
How do you do?!
real deal
match
Into the Blue
Wish I was Real
Who knows. Maybe Tennessee
Wish I’d be here
Please help yourself
Until the cows come home
Games
Scope
Please help yourself
solo
Please help yourself is a short piece in the subjunctive:
a solo about the impulse before moving,
the breathing in before speaking,
the moment before the event.
Soloist: Fiona Gordon (GB)
Choreography/Direction,
Light Design, Stage Set: Jan Pusch
Music: Beat Halberschmidt [prod.],
Bernd Hilgert, Jost Nickel - Bodien
Sound Composition: Jan Pusch
Costume: Ullinca Schröder
Production: Jan Pusch
Photo: Elke Waldowski
Duration: 20 minutes
Produced by Jan Pusch, November 1998
"Please help yourself" was awarded the First Prize at 3. Internationales SoloTanzTheater Festival, Stuttgart '99 and was guesting in International Dance Festivals in Germany (i.a. Berlin, Hamburg,Kassel, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden), Belgium (Antwerpen), Denmark (Aarhus, Copenhagen), Austria (Linz), Wales (Swansea) and Lebanon (Beirut), Turkey (Ankara)), Japan (Kyoto).
"Aggressive, funny and outragiously charming. Fiona Gordon is phenomenal in this intelligent prank."
Hamburger Abendblatt
"In Pusch's choreographic live-art-act Fiona Gordon succeeds in a tremendous performance about the thoughts before a performance. Danced stand-up-comedy displaying the exorbitant charm and with the powerful ease of this Briton.
Tanzdrama
"In Please help yourself the superb Fiona Gordon draws a bead on expectations of the spectator and stage conventions. Jan Pusch choreographed this intelligent and entertaining study indicating the split between impulse and movement, private self and public performance."
Der Tagesspiegel
"This piece is a witty, intimate and amusing episode from the life of a young woman which, with its mixture of wit and dance-like slapstick comes across so freshly and distinctively that one can only applaud with delight. Most of all the perfectly performed interactions between noises and dance."
Stuttgarter Zeitung
"It is a clever play with the expectations of the audience worked out by choreographer Pusch and his dancer."
die tageszeitung