dance
| salle modulable | running time around 1 hr 10 | presented during the festival TRANS(E)
French premiere
in French, English and German
thursday 22 march 2012 at 19 h 30
As if (we would be)
Stephanie Thiersch – MOUVOIR
The German choreographer Stephanie Thiersch breaks the rules again with this ambitious, original dance piece. The work came about after a long period of research spent in the waiting rooms of China, Africa and Germany. As if (we would be) shines a light on the particularities of human behavior when we are in groups, our capacity for imitation, and the adaption of our personalities which allows us to melt into the crowd, to become invisible in the crowd. This profound series of questions, remarkably performed by the dancers of the MOUVOIR company, are prolonged and intensified by the images projected onstage. Stephanie Thiersch submerges us in intense emotion and powerful scenes, showing us the possible paths to individuality.
Thursday 22 March
meet the artists after the performance
dramaturgy Angela Melitopoulos, Stephanie Thiersch / choreography, direction Stephanie Thiersch / video Angela Melitopoulos / adaptation video Sala de la Tele Meggie Schneider / choreographic collaboration Alexandra Naudet / advisor Gerald Siegmund / assistant Angela Harter / sound Vitor Joaquim, Joseph Suchy / sound mixing Lyoudmila Milanova / costumes Sabine Schneider / set design Stephanie Thiersch, Angela Melitopoulos, Angela Anderson, Niko Moddenborg / technical direction, lighting Niko Moddenborg / graphic design J. Waschat / photography Tom Trambow / dance by and with Viviana Escalé, Inés Hernandez, Mu-Yi Kuo, Victor Launay, I-Fen Lin, Nicolas Robillard, Valenti Rocamora i Tora
Production MOUVOIR – Stephanie Thiersch with the Freihandelszone Ensemblenetzwerk, Cologne. Coproduction Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf / O Espaco do Tempo, Lisbon / Goethe Institut Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Visa 2 Dance Festival in collaboration with the Schauspiel Köln, national theatre of Cologne / colectivA Cluj / Hungarian, national theatre, Rumania.
