Geteilter Abend (SHARED/DIVIDED EVENING)
dance performance Dance Theatre & Performance
The performance by Verena Billinger and Sebastian Schulz deals with sharing in both senses of the word. What connects us, what separates us? How can we communicate with others, especially on stage?
At the beginning of the evening, Verena Billinger is back on stage for the first time in a long time and explores the question of how a biography can be danced. She turns herself into material and tries to catch a glimpse of her life. She invites the audience to experience her relationship to dance and choreography, as well as her place in history and society.
But no person is an island and so relationships are added: the others emerge. Three dancers take over the stage, take up elements of the solo and transform them into a dynamic choreography. They delightfully transform questions of community into joint movements of self-empowerment and loss of control.
Geteilter Abend is a search for traces of the gaps in the narrative, the cracks in one’s own portrait and ruptures in belonging to a group or generation.
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cast
Concept & choreography: Verena Billinger & Sebastian Schulz. Performance & dance solo: Verena Billinger. Performance & dance trio: Jungyun Bae, Camilla Fiumara, Edvards Kurmiņš. Performance & dance guest: Sebastian Schulz. Collaboration movement research: Vivien Kovarbašić. Costume: Anika Baum. Costume care: Dana Joldaspayeva. Photos, graphic design: Florian Krauß. Project organization: Andrea Gerhold, Paul Koloseus, Neele Renzland / transmissions GmbH. Sound engineering: Jan Läkemäker.
Herzlichen Dank an Florian Ackermann, Figen Aksoy, Bessarabiendeutscher Verein e.V., Friedhelm Billinger, Rosa Billinger, Joana Böhnlein, Benjamin Cromme, Katja Grawinkel-Claassen, Tabea Gregory, Alexandra Hennig, Agnes Lackner, Maria Lang, Thomas Lehmen, Ditlind Linke, Steffen Linke, Kousha Rasta, Christoph Rech, Michel Ronimi, Sām Sabor, Melanie Muñoz Salguero, Gerald Siegmund, Katharina Speckmann, Ives Thuwis, Klaus Wallrath, Rufus Wunner, Maximilian Zahn, Susanne Zaun.
credits
A Billinger & Schulz production, in co-production with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main and FFT Düsseldorf. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt on the Main, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts. A preliminary research was made possible by Bureau Ritter / TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Supported by Hilfsprogramm Tanz. With the kind support of Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Z – Centre for Rehearsals and Research.
The Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt on the Main, the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts and the Stiftungsallianz (Foundation Alliance) [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich and Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, ODDO BHF Foundation, Polytechnical Society Frankfurt on the Main Foundation].