About the show

Written Portraits is a participative performance based on improvisation where, as painters do, I portray a person improvising a poem with my typewriter and the person gets the poem in paper as a present.

Participated in more than 60 festivals, performed more than 200 times, portrayed around 2000 persons in 5 years, worked together with 70 artists of different disciplines and included in the so called “the bible of performance” Emergency Index. WHAT A TRIP!!!

Written Portraits with Daniel Bierdümpfl – Live Poetry and Live Music Portraits

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The Written Portraits Poems book gathers 100 poems written during three years of performances.
It includes a twenty pages prologue in English and Spanish telling the story of the idea and its evolution.

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Why?

Writing as an act. The writer beyond his desk. Telling stories than the skin tells. Live. In the moment. Creating with no premeditation. A mirroring game. In the moment. For the moment. That remains as part of our experience. That stays in a paper.

The swing behind.

This performance is based on improvisational poems live written and often invites artists of diverse disciplines. Live music, live painting and improvisational contemporary dance; disciplines which not only drive the moment and the words into an experience of trance and human interconnection but also tend to portray the person in its own language.

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Ox Maló – Written Portraits Session with Daniel Bierdümpfl in Linz, Austria
Written Portraits at Kultursommer Wien with Manaho Shimokawa & Kasho Chualan
Written Portraits / Live Poetry + Contemporary Dance + Live music
Ox Maló – Written Portraits – With Karlotta Frank & Aron Hollinger
Written Portraits Ox Maló w/ Karlotta Frank impro dancing and Aron Hollinger
Ox Maló – Written Portraits Session / Sesión de Escrito Retratos

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