NEWS Season 2012
Brochure iDAS NRW
PREMIERES IM JUNE 12
Silke Z./resistdance. /// JUST BETWEEN US! The generation project ///
Making of: Andrew meets ... (man over 60)
Premiere: June 1 & 2, 2012, Studio 11, Köln
Andrew Morrish, an artist of improvisation and performance, will talk in this special edition of the generation project, about himself and about the meeting with his choreographer. "Andrew meets..." is the "making of" of the series. The audience has an overview on how each episode was designed and created.
The choreographer Silke Z., alongside the performers, will bring out, develop and stage in live the generation-specific contents in front of the audience. What once, for the spectator, was researched and worked out behind closed doors is now, in this part of the series, openly explained with a main emphasis on the content.
Andrew Morrish also stands for the generation of men over 60, a generation that has coped with life?
Silke Z./resistdance. /// JUST BETWEEN US! The generation project///
Bonus Track: Caro and Tonio (the couple)
Premiere: June 23 and 24, 2012, Barnes Crossing - Kunstzentrum in der Wachsfabrik, Köln
In the bonus track, we would like to throw light on a current trend: the divorce rate amongst young couples has never been so high! Are we lacking of endurance? Have we lost our willingness to make compromises? Are we so self-centered that we no longer need anyone else? Or have relationships always had a natural expiry date that we have been ignoring? Or is it related to the chronic and excessive demands that we face every day: work, children, the needs of others, flexibility and where does that leave room for the self? Antonio Cabrita and Caroline Simon represent in this episode the generation in their early 30's. They work together, are friends, and are occasionally as father and mother for each other...
PREMIERES IN APRIL 12
Out of the house /// tanzfuchs PRODUKTION / Barbara Fuchs
For an audience of two and up
Every day consists of an infinite string of great adventures – even if their sources are tiny: A twig on the road may already be a discovery, a bug a big sensation. The two people in this play let the audience take part in their travels on such an exciting road. Get out of bed. To the toilet, quick. Put on your shirt, your pants, you’re ready. And now they want to get out, leave the house. Because out there, you can discover the world. Cautiously at first, because nobody knows what awaits you there. A cow, maybe? Or another animal? A pig, small or big? Or is there a mouse hiding behind the house? Ingeborg von Zadow wrote a play for the smallest audience in children’s theatre, full of language games, witty rhymes and surprising discoveries. Barbara Fuchs realizes this on stage.
Experiment on chatting bodies // Fabien Prioville Dance Company
Virtuality as a playground for self presentation: Fabien Prioville is fascinated by the influence of new technology on the way we are communicating. For his new piece he was inspired by the video chatroom chatroulette. On this site users present their, sometimes radical, ideas in totally random encounters. In collaboration with Pascal Merighi, also former dancer from Tanztheater Wuppertal, Fabien asks for the fascination of these encounters. On facebook he invites people to come and join the performance via skype. During the rehearsal process he asks facebook users to provide their own content and together with Pascal they experiment on this mode of interaction.
www.facebook.com/experimentonchattingbodies
PREMIERES IN MARCH 12
changeABLE cohesion /// DIN A 13 tanzcompany
World premiere of changeABLE cohesion is opening the Colombo International Theatre Festival /Sri Lanka
German Premiere: May 22, 2012, Bilefeld, DansArt Tanznetworks
Further performances: May, 24-16, 2012 Köln, Festival Sommerblut
Unspoken beauty reveals itself when certitudes are turned upside down and the fragility of existance becomes evident. Six dancers: two women and four men. three with and three without physical disabilities: Six people born into a time in which daily grind can lead through hidden corners into unpredictable ends, in which familiar structures can turn threatening and danger a thrill.
The DIN A 13 tanzcompany, one of the few mixed-abled dance companies worldwide, starts its new project, UPHEAVAL, in Sri Lanka. After a production process of eight weeks, changeABLE cohesion (Upheaval I)will be premiered at the Colombo International Theatre Festival and tour Germany in May 2012.
Upheaval II & III will take place in Venezuela and Libanon and all three productions will be part of a final performed installation in Germany in 2014.
The Happy Living Trilogy /// MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch
Within three indepedendently staged choreographies, Stephanie Thiersch illuminates the dogma of happiness. The Cologne-based choreographer and media artist assumes different perspectives to do so, collaborating with five dance personalities, stage design artist Joseph Rottenkolber and musician Joseph Suchy.
The solo White Landing for dancer I-Fen Lin, in dialogue with musician Joseph Suchy, plays with images of origin and childhood phantasms. The duo, Nature Morte, approaches the form of human existence lingering between domestication and savagery. Within an atmospherically dense entanglement of images of agrarian landscapes and the touching dancers in all their traits as creatures, a close interplay of forces unfolds: “Idiosyncratic, yet stylistically sure and formally succeeding“, according to Thomas Linden in the Kölnische Rundschau.
The closing trio, Near MISS, puts the topical “happiness“, staged in an imaginary space, within the greater context of a futuristic interpretation of fate and self-determination.
Nathalie meets Katie / Justin meets Stefan /// Silke Z./resistdance.
Episode 4 & 5 of the generation project "Just between us!"
Episodes 4 and 5 Nathalie meets Katie and Justin meets Stefan look at the under twenty group. Is it the generation of rampages, drugs, Facebook and porn? Or the generation of pragmatists who think about career, security and family early on and actually have a very optimistic view of the world? Are they perhaps more grown up than their parents who love to celebrate eternal youth and camaraderie? Or are they perhaps "merely" as diverse as the world they live in?
The Kitchen /// Unusual Symptoms / Alexandra Morales
Alexandra Morales, closely associated with the work of Samir Akika for many years, presents her first own production with THE KITCHEN. And she is following a deeply personal impulse: the kitchen as a space of familial work and work on the own family, as a ledger of a half public, half private negotiation on destinations and contours of one’s own design for life. Between sweet and bitter, cheerful and cheerless, individual narrations from the kitchen table encounter the modes of operation of a globalized world order. Illuminating questions for the end and the beginning of tradition and culture. With an extravagant ensemble which blurs the lines between contemporary dance, hip hop, performance art and noise music. Pondering the question for the expiration date of history and memory.
PREMIERE IN JANUARY 12
From Here to There /// Fabien Prioville
Fabien Prioville prepared a solo resembling an abstract biography for dancer Dirk Kazmierczak with From Here To There. Based on everyday body language, an aesthetic develops in which practical gestures and dance movements merge, making them indistinguishable.
PREMIERES IN DECEMBER 11
Barbara meets Bettina /// Silke Z./resistdance.
Episode 3 of the generation project "Just between us!"- Single working mothers age 40 plus
A woman stands her ground here! Actress Bettina Muckenhaupt and dancer/ choreographer Barabara Fuchs agree: Children are the best thing to happen to them! The “rest“ is secondary. What are the worries about money, the tired shadows under their eyes and the constant need for assistance compared to the joy of motherhood. In Barbara meets Bettina, a geeration meets, posing self-critical questions, exposing preferences and fancies, always challenging themselves.
FLUX /// Stephanie Thiersch - 3 pieces - 3 choreographers
In life, we deal with dependency. One step leads to the next, intertwined like cogwheels. More often than not, the pressure level we can cope with physically and psychically is lower than expected: Borderline, Burn Out. What can you do to outwit, trick and stun yourself in order to be able to walk ever on, to retreat from all those various dependencies? "Flux" as a term describes physical movement and is closely related to "to flux", pertaining to magnetic particle testing, which means dfifferent engineering and testing processes. What happens when life comes apart at the seams?
PREMIERES IN NOVEMBER 11
Human Zoo /// Guido Markowitz & Tarek Assam / Schritt.Art
How much of an animal is there in a human being? The aspect of the unpredictable, untamed, of the wild has always been fascinating for humans. And so it is for Schritt.Art Company choreographers Guido Markowitz and Tarek Assam who examine interpersonal relationships as well as their ambivalence and dependencies in their play Human Zoo. They focus on the psychological aspect of togetherness which often lets us act on instinct, libidinous, almost animalistic.
Studio Album /// 2+ / Célestine Hennermann & Philip Bußmann
1986: Starting point for the dance performance Studio Album is a year, a decade, several pasts, many memories. 2+, comprised of dance dramaturge Célestine Hennermann and video artist Philip Bußmann, together with dancers Allison Brown and Alfredo Zinola, remember the year 1986, the historical and cultural upheavals as well as their own histories. With the hindsight of today’s knowledge, they draw melancholy, humorous, historical and personal portraits of the Eighties and its legends within their multimedia dance performance.
In 1986, Hennermann, Bußmann and Brown were teenaged, and Zinola was three years old – it was the year of Chernobyl, Challenger, Libya, Glasnost, Wackersdorf; Joseph Beuys, Simone de Beauvoir, and Cary Grant died; Lady Gaga was born. And the Pet Shop Boys released »please«, the first album by the British pop duo. It was chosen as a symbol of that time period by 2+, while the LP also forms the topical and emotional centre of the evening.
Pas de Deux /// Raimund Hoghe
In ballet, a “pas de deux” is a climactic duet where the two principal dancers demonstrate the mastery of their art. Raimund Hoghe revisits this sequence as an essential expression of duality, sharing the stage with Takashi Ueno – a young Japanese dancer trained in butô. As dancers come together and apart, physical and cultural differences become visible, but are part of a search for a common ground.
UNTER NULL /// tanzfuchs PRODUKTION / Barbara Fuchs
UNTER NULL (BELOW ZERO) leads its audience into iced realms of space, sound and visuals. The research team plays with associative micro- and macrocosms, all based on water’s third aggregate state. As if under a microscope, the medialized ingredients of a polar expedition become scrutinized in hearing and watching. These ingredients will be closely watched, taken apart, disassembled, contorted, isolated from their respective contexts, and mirrored.
the wood project /// Felix Bürkle / starting point
Wood in its fascinatingly diverse materiality and as a resource marks the point of origin for a fusion of contemporary dance, object manipulation, live music, and the staging of space. Within his new play, Felix Bürkle continues his artistic research into the relations of humans and material, begun with beckett, beer and cigarettes in 2007, an internationally touring production in which he made beer bottles dance.
PREMIERES IN OCTOBER 11
D.E.S. - Dubito ergo sum /// Morgan Nardi
Dubito ergo sum – I doubt, therefore I am. There is no certainty. What happens when one gets completely immersed in doubt? What happens when we lend an ear to all voices moving about in our bodies? What form will time take when nothing is certain? What happens in space when the perception of reality is in permanent flux? Doubt is the underlying concept of revolution, constantly scratching at the surface of our certainty. Once doubt takes root, a development is initiated which dictates all our actions. Borne out of this doubt and the emerging questions, Morgan Nardi scoops the seed of creativity in his new solo.
Der verlorene Drache /// Renegade
Following Irgendwo (Somewhere), the 2011/ 12 season will see another Renegade production at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Within Malou Airaudo’s choreography, dancers of different styles – everybody in his or her own manner – search for the lost dragon. This dragon symbolizes longing and hope, love, but also the sadness and the loss human beings simply bear. Renegade has been artist in residence at the Schauspielhaus Bochum since 2010.
Nature Morte / Happy Living Trilogy N°2 /// MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch
The piece describes with strong, panoramic video images by artist Martin Rottenkolber a “clash” between two strangers and the unmarked territories of the earth. Non-places (Marc Augé) like waste land, parking spaces or given up construction sites are the setting. These landscapes seem to have neither history nor identity. Two dancers colourful and expressive turn them their own, give these spaces an unmistakable imprint. Obscene moments as well as supernatural moments emerge that raise the question of the relation between human and nature. A strong duo, humourous and melancholic at the same time.
The Happy Living Trilogy consists of three independently produced and performable plays on medialized stagings of luck; together, they form one feature-length play. Nature Morte is the second chapter of MOUVOIR´s Happy Living Trilogy.
PREMIERES IN SEPTEMBER 11
young&furious /// Unusual Symptoms / Samir Akika & Johannes Fundermann
young&furious marks the first collaboration of two unconventional theatre people who have met and have come to appreciate each other through their longstanding production relationships with the Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster. The choreographer Samir Akika and Münster’s own up-and-coming director Johannes Fundermann, together with young people from Belgium and Germany, work on a portrait of eight young individuals, eight perspectives on society and living within it. Where individual lives and stories intersect, a panorama of inner voices and external attributions, historical splinters and fictitious stories emerges. Are we all part of the same time stream or are we running on parallel tracks? And where might all this be leading to?
UNTITLED: NATURA /// Ben J. Riepe Kompanie
An ironic game with meaning, rhythmic structures on the verge of disintegration; lies, phantasms in twilight. This stage play for six performers creates an unstable world of in-between conditions: ambivalent and fragile, branched out and in constant transformation. Sudden montage and implied sketches of images are joined to intricately arranged compositions. Dramatic coherence is confronted with the disclosure of the means of theatrical performance. So, choreographical poetics originate, unifying, in paradoxical tension, within itself proximity experienced as well as reflective distance, art and reality.
I´ VE SEEN IT ALL /// CocoonDance Company
Six dancers and a foley artist take the viewer / listener in a changeful game of spoken text, music , sounds and of space and movement. The focus of I'VE SEEN IT ALL is the surreal world of a young man - changing between waking and dreaming - who arises accosted by a voice from the darkness. Bizarre characters take shape and form. Invisible is audible, visible unsaid. I'VE SEEN IT ALL takes the audience on a journey from the mouth through the ear over the eye in the head of the young man in a world dominated by phantasmagoria. The result is a listening game! A game with the listening and the intention to bring about a change in perception.
ELEPHANT WALK /// Célestine Hennermann
A dance project for toddlers (Ages 0-3 yrs.)
How does a penguin walk compared to humans, how does a tiger move? Following her succesful piece Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst, Frankfurt choreographer Célestine Hennermann deals with the movement of animals in her new work. Contemporary dancer Katharina Wiedenhofer along with hip hop dancer Albi Gika play with typical movements of elephants, dogs, cats and many other animals, while also bringing a special prop onto the scene: More than one dozen buckets in different colours, shapes and sizes, become elephant’s feet, hats, paws, as well as the stage setting or seating.
Featuring a specially commissioned and developed sound collage by Frankfurt composer Gregor Praml, ELEPHANT WALK invites its small audience into a world of big and small surprises.
Duration: 25 minutes, followed by an invitation to participate
White Landing / Happy Living Trilogy N°1 /// MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch
Solo for I-Fen Lin
Out of nothing a woman appears on a white carpet. An astronaut with an electric guitar sits next door. We hear about a day where nothing happens. Nothing that would be visible. The vague or ambigous things have the chance to come to the fore. Slivers from past and present, between the banality of every day life and the inner darkness, land in front of our feet. Electric lamps and images from the past enlight the extraordinary dancer I-Fen Lin from Taiwan and turn the solo into a very personal and at the same time highly virtuous dance-performance.
White Landing is the first chapter of MOUVOIR´s Happy Living Trilogy. In 3 diverging experimental set-ups, the piece raises questions about the current term of luck. The aim of the production is to create 3 performances at different locations, different times and with different casts. In all three parts, traces, finds, echoes and quotations can be found of the other parts.
PREMIERE IN AUGUST 11
DRESSING THE CITY AND MY HEAD IS A SHIRT /// Angie Hiesl + Roland Kaiser
City intervention from the URBAN-CITY-URBAN cycle
AWARDS
Alexandra Waierstall is one of three finalists for the international Rolex Mentor and Protége Arts
Initiative in the discipline of dance.
For the cycle 2012/2013 she was chosen for the final phase of the selection procedure from among 25 nominees around the globe. In the end of March, Alexandra Waierstall got together with the named mentor Lin Hwai-Min in his workplace in Taipei (Taiwan). The founder of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Lin Hwai-Min is one of the leading choreographers in Asia.
For the sixth time Rolex Mentor and Protége Arts Initiative designates young, excellent artists in the categories dance/literature/film/music/visual arts/theater and brings them together with a master of their discipline for a one-year creative collaboration. The program promotes a professional exchange, which supports and strengths the individual development of the emerging artists’ potential.
http://www.rolexmentorprotege.com/en/news/2012-2013-finalists.jsp
In 2011, Ben J. Riepe recieved the award for the performing arts of the City of Düsseldorf.
CONGRATULATIONS!
NEW PRODUCTIONS ONLINE
Felix Bürkle / starting point the wood project
Morgan Nardi D.E.S. Dubito Ergo Sum
Raimund Hoghe Pas de Deux
CocoonDance Company I´ve seen it all
Ben J. Riepe Komapnie UNTITLED: NATURA
Celestine Hennermann Elephant Walk
tanzfuchs PRODUKTION / Barbara Fuchs Headwalkers
DIN A 13 tanzcompany / Gerda König
Silke Z. / resistdance SWEDED - life as a copy
Renegade IRGENDWO
Angie Hiesl Produktion DRESSING THE CITY AND MY HEAD IS A SHIRT
Noema Dance Works / Alexandra Waierstall Mapping the Wind
