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How it Molds into the Shape of their Skin
A durational performance at the Staatsgallerie Stuttgart.
A piece that took place in the same rooms where works by Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko and the iconic Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer can be seen.
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Sebastian Barbanell
Performers, Co-Creation: Stella Covi, Dario Wilmington
Photography, Videography: Rowan Schratzberger
Wetland
“Welcome to Wetland , a wet, queer place that liquefies supposedly fixed assumptions, ways of thinking and categories. On a stage floor modified with water, the performers enter into a slippery confrontation with their permeable bodies. Wetland is a wetland that not only manifests itself as a metaphorical-political space, but also emerges on stage as a material-real place in which binary structures seep away like a swamp. The choreography merges virtuoso sliding technique with a queer perspective, a pleasure-celebrating approach with pop culture influences, and forms a stream that undermines our overly stable, comfortable ways of thinking.
In examining hydrofeminist discourse theory, Katharina Senzenberger and her accomplices embark on a search for the transformative potential of water in relation to space, body and corporeality. They draw attention to the porous relationships of our watery bodies. They invite us into the zone of emergence, assembly, reproduction, divergence, differentiation, merging. A fluid border space whose edges are in constant fluctuation. Where two complex systems meet, touch, collide and transform each other.”
Just recently, Wetland has been selected by the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024 as on of the most influential dance pieces of the last two years.
Concept, Choreography, Performance, Lighting, Production: Katharina Senzenberger
Performance, Co-Creation: Stella Covi | Pin-Chen Hsu (original cast), Ibai Jimenez Gorostizu-Orkaiztegi, Vivien Kovarbasic | Magdalena Forster (original cast), Benze C. Werner
Music, Composition, Sound: Isabella Forster
Stage Design: Renate Mihatsch (revision), Christi Knak Tschaikowskaja (original version)
Dramaturgy: Valerie Wehrens
Production Assistance: Marlen Pflüger
Stage Design Assistance: Agnes Müller, Mail Benger
Technical Realization: Anna Lieber
Photography: Nathan Ishar
Cabaret
Cabaret is based on the autobiographical short stories of the British-American writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986). Attracted by the reputation and sexual promiscuity of the city of Berlin.
Staging: Calixto Bieito
Musical Direction: Nicholas Kok
Choreography: Juanjo Arques
Dramaturgy: Ingoh Brux
Stage: Helen Stichlmeir, Calixto Bieito
Performers: Stella Covi, Marco Ciullo, Luis Hergon, Carla Baumgartner, Lara Neuser, Ronja Sahra Steinacher, Felipe Ramos, David Hegyi
Photography: Toni Suter
In the Country of Last Things: Chapter 2
If the first piece in the trilogy danced two complementary declensions of man in the chrysalis stage, i.e. in a stage of becoming but intrinsically burdened by passive acceptance, in which the world presses in from outside as a necessary phenomenon, in this only the protagonist has internalized change.
If, from a Hegelian point of view, we can recognize in both dancers a synthesis, a dialogue undergone with a painful antithesis external to both, in this case the dancer has completed her ascent to the state of synthesis, where change is no longer undergone but acts. The dancer's body and mind are now strong enough to allow her to kill herself and be reborn, just as the butterfly is ready to let go not only of the chrysalis that contains it, but also of the caterpillar that once was. In this piece, not only is it sufficient to contain itself, but it also shapes the carriage to contain the consciousnesses obtained during its transformation, represented by the objects inside. The idea of plumbing the depths of meaning of the 'last things' that remain points to the end of the world imposed by others for the protagonist, as part of a very personal path of self-determination, in which one can also explore contradiction and the opposite within oneself.
Concept, Choreography, Lighting, Production: Elena Cattardico
Performance, Co-creation: Stella Covi
Music, Composition, Sound: Edoardo Nocco
Sleep Dancing II: The Open Palm
Sleepdancing II: The Open Palm is the second chapter of an ongoing series of collaborative performance projects between Max Levy Choreographic Works and digital art duo Cosa Mentale building an atmospheric experience where performers, motion-capture, and music coalesce in an unique environment between meditation, relaxation and sleep. While the first chapter Are e Luar brought dance through film into the privacy of the bedroom, blurring the lines between reality and the dream world as much as those between dance and film, this second installment takes a different approach.
Concept, Direction: Max Levy
Choreography: Max Levy in cooperation with the performers
Production and Artistic Assistance: Patscharaporn Distakul
Performers: Stella Covi, Noemi de Rosa, Jerneja Fekonja
Digital Artwork: Cosa Mentale, Celia Bétourné, Louis Cortes
Composition: Max Levy
Photography: Jubal Battisti
Videography: Jubal Battisti
Production Management, Communication: Verena Strasser
Richard Wagner seems to belong to a bygone era - the late romantic posturing of an
Elite, educated middle class. Can Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde" - this "underbody music", as Heidegger teased - be told in a different way? Completely without pathos – mild and quiet? For once without this endless longing for love and death? For example, as a very common everyday story? Probably not. But you can dance it like that! And together - namely as an expression of a co-creative, mancipatory-participatory process from the conception through public rehearsals to the performances of professional dancers, citizens interested in dance, the audience and... yes, wire-haired dachshunds. And so people and dogs meet not only on stage, but also in the title: “Tristan, Isolde und Petitcru”.
Conception, Choreography, Direction: Katja Erdmann-Rajski
Performance, Co-creation: Saskia Hamala, Elena Cattardico, Stella Covi, Sonia Lautenbacher
Lighting Design: Carolin Bock
Music: Richard Wagner
Photography: Marco Grisafi
Tristan, Isolde und Petitcru
Performances
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In the country of last things: Chapter 2
Upcoming Dates
To Be Announced
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Cabaret, Schauspiel haus Stuttgart
Upcoming Dates
November 4, 2023
December 4, 5, 6, 31, 2023
January 12, 2024
February 17, 2024
March 9, 17, 2024
April 1, 19, 2024
May 2, 2024
June 1, 2024
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Lucia di Lammermoor, Staatstheater Nürnmberg
Upcoming Dates
November 5, 11, 17, 19, 26, 2023
December 9, 19, 30, 2023
January 13, 22, 25, 2024
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Ich bin dein Labyrinth, Lockstoff!
Upcoming Dates
May 16, 23,30, 2024
June 6, 2024