Accident Excercises
Performance Social/Urban Movements Theatre & Performance
Rotterdam Presenta develop exercises in which they probe the accident. They observe collisions, falls, and missteps. Together with performance art group Contact Gonzo (Osaka), they set up a laboratory for risk culture wherein they reflect upon the accident as a moment of deformation and destabilisation, on the qualities of non-autonomous bodies and on the power of sudden happenings. In four accident exercises, human bodies, fruit, and motor vehicles collide and are subjected to meticulous observation.
partners in crime
cast
Rotterdam Presenta/Contact Gonzo Niels Bovri, Stine Hertel, Katarzyna Kania, Ayaka Fujii, Keigo Mikajiri, Jan Rohwedder, Yuya Tsukahara
Technical Assistance: Thomas Widera
Production Management: Carina Graf
Contact Gonzo is a collective from Osaka, Japan, established in 2005, that combines improvisational physical contact with legendary journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s (1937–2005) “gonzo” aesthetics. They work in public sites, mountains, rivers, galleries, museums, theatres, and alleys around the world, with performances that may seem like either a street mosh or a sophisticated dance. In recent years, Contact Gonzo has become the focus of increasing attention in both the performing arts and contemporary art scenes. Contact Gonzo currently consists of four members with different backgrounds, including NAZE, Takuya Matsumi, Keigo Mikajiri, and Yuya Tsukahara.
credits
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the North Rhine-Westphalian State Office for the Independent Performing Arts, Kunststiftung NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Cultural Department of the State Capital of Düsseldorf, Stiftung van Meeteren.
A production by Rotterdam Presenta in co-production with FFT Düsseldorf and Freischwimmen.
Freischwimmen is a production platform for performance and theatre, supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensaele Berlin, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, and Theater Rampe Stuttgart. A guest performance in cooperation with Nippon Performance Nights, Düsseldorf.