Season 3 October 20-30th 2011


Chords and Discords — My Dog is my Piano

Tuesday, October 25th   |   6:30pm   |   40 min   |   Performance   |   The Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Co-presented with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Goethe Institut (New York)
Tocky von Arnim and Bettina von Arnim live together in the same house. They do not speak the same language, they are hardly alike and yet, they have assembled. In « My Dog is My Piano », Antonia Baehr sketches a subjective acoustic portrait of the affinity between her mother and her dog : can the house they share be read as the score of the stories of canine-human living together? What kind of language emerges from this long duet of everyday comings and goings, of these choreographies of affinities? Special thanks to Bettina von Arnim, Tocky von Arnim, Donna J. Haraway, François Noudelmann and Gertrude Stein.
Tickets: Free
Chords and Discords — My Dog is my Piano

Antonia Baehr

© Sophie Laly

Antonia Baehr

© Marc Domage

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”  Isaac Newton