ERICA
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jamais
by Steffen Fuchs

Empire
by Takako Suzuki


Promoting young talent 2008 - Emerging young choreographers

Premiere
May 23rd, 2008 | 8 pm | semper kleine szene, Dresden

Further performances
May 24th | 25th | 30th | 31st and June 01st, 2008

Call for applications

More than 60 teams from 19 countries applied in autumn 2007 for the promoting young talents / dance production grant 2008 of Tanzplan Dresden which supports interdisciplinary and experimental dance projects. The jury awarded a grant to three choreographers: Takako Suzuki, Steffen Fuchs and Pipo Tafel. The rehearsals took place in April and May 2008 in Dresden and were accompanied by a mentor: Bruno Cathomas, actor at the Schaubühne and Volksbühne Berlin amongst others, Sophie Becker, dramaturg at the Bayrische Staatsballett Munich, and Dr. Ulrich Bischoff, director of the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden.

ERICA :-))

PROSTITUTION, ART AND WAR; DRESDEN, MARY WIGMAN & DADA
Pipo Tafel
Mara Tsironi
Behrang Karimi
Paulo Guerreiro
Florian Zwißler
Paul Wiersbinski
Carlos Fernandez Lopez

 

to bring a stone
to your mouth,
to eat in the stone
what remains of the stone,
when it goes in your mouth

 

On 6 th June 2008 ERICA was performed as opening event at the XTRA FREI festival.

 

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Vita Pipo Tafel 

Vita Pipo Tafel

Pipo Tafel studied digital arts at the HfG Karlsruhe to intermediate diploma level and dance at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. He completed his degree with the two year D.A.N.C.E. programme in Marseille, Brussels and Dresden. His projects are a fusion of dance, film and digital arts.
For the development of “ERICA” an experimental and interdisciplinary approach was adopted whereby all team members are equally involved in the creation of the piece.

jamais

Choreography: Steffen Fuchs (D)
Costume design: Maik Stüven (D)
Dance:  Marie Sophie Budek (D), Michael Veit (D), Daniela Dinh (D), Mevlana van Vark (D)
Dance and Assistance: Barbara Passow (D)
Light design: John Gilmore (CAN)

 

Special thanks goes to TENZA Schmiede.

 

People and art are concerned with the fear of emptiness since people attempt to harmonise feeling with thought. Human existence comprises birth, becoming an adult by passing stages of vigorous adolescence and maturity, and release through death. On this path we are confronted with interruptions and irritations. In his piece “jamais” Steffen Fuchs approaches these aspects. “jamais” illustrates how it is, when it happens, what it does to us und where it leads us to.

 

Vita Steffen Fuchs 

Vita Steffen Fuchs

Steffen Fuchs was trained at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin. After he worked as a soloist for the Leipziger Ballett he started working as an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher. Steffen Fuchs choreographs since 1998 and created many productions since then. Amongst others, he cooperated with LOFFT.Leipzig. Currently he furthers his choreographic skills through postgraduate studies at Palucca-Schule in Dresden.

Empire

Supervision and choreography: Takako Suzuki (Berlin/Japan),
Visual composition, Video: Hannah Groninger (München),
Composition, trumpet and electronic: Axel Dörner (Berlin)
Dance and choreography:
Silvana Suárez Cedeño (Berlin/Venezuela),
Alisa Panchenko (St. Petersburg)
Harmonika Maxim Nekrasov (St. Petersburg)
Light design: John Gilmore (CAN),
Costume design: Claudia Helling (Berlin)

 

Besides the art works the Hermitage in St. Petersburg presents a further, “living interior” – the museum staff who guard the art works. “Empire” is dedicated to the story of these witnesses and explores the Hermitage through their eyes.
The dance project reflects upon institutionally determined constellations in a museum: those between the art works as objects being gazed at; between visitors as observers of the art works; the staff supervising the visitors’ conduct; and in an empathic sense the art works themselves as active players.

 

Empire is supported by Goethe-Institut München. Coproducer: Sasha Waltz & Guests in the framework of the support programme »Choreographen der Zukunft«, which is sponsored by BASF SE as main sponsor. Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by funds of the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin.

 

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Vita Takako Suzuki 

Vita Takako Suzuki

Takako Suzuki, born in Japan, lives in Berlin where she has regularly worked together with the dance company „Sasha Waltz & Guests“ since 1992. She studied dance in Tokyo and at the HBK Braunschweig. The idea for “Empire” emerged from a residency in St. Petersburg during which she intensively investigated the work of the museum guards at the Hermitage Museum.