Planking... with a plank: Performance artist gives his take on internet sensation with a twist
It was the internet craze that saw people all over the world trying to outdo their online rivals by lying down 'like a plank' in the most unusual places.
But a performance artist has taken 'planking' to the next, and more literal, level by planking... with a plank.
Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner's latest project 'Fitting' sees bendy dancers squeezing into urban location with a plank.
Extreme planking: Not many people could beat this planking pose, complete with a blank, in an urban street show by Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner
Ouch: This painful looking planking drew the crowds at the Festival des 7 Collines in Saint-Etienne, central France
Balancing act: This dancer needed to keep perfectly still to maintain her grip on this plank
Planking around: The new urban street show by Willi Dorner is appropriately called 'Fitting'
The living art is being performed at the Festival des 7 Collines in Saint-Etienne, central France.
The dancers create the 'installations' by posing, laying, plugging planks and walls in the ground.
Droner's last performance, 'Bodies in urban spaces', presented at the Festival des 7 Collines in 2009, has been touring in Europe and in 50 cities around the world.
The human architecture is made of 22 dancers and performers in orange hoodies, purple tights and bright green who turned themselves into human sculptures that complement the surrounding architecture.
Willi Dorner has been performing a similar exhibition for the last couple of years on various parts of the world including Austria, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the US.
A corner all my own: Fitting sees dancers shaping a new urban space with installations in a public space
Bit of a squeeze: This dancer looks a little unsteady literally clinging to his plank
Keeping each other company: At least these two performers could have a chat while posing with their plank
Between a plank and a hard place: Willi Dorner managed to fit the plank into buildings around central France that his dancers could then work around |
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