DATES
Jan 23-31 2009, Hau 2 & 3 (Berlin)
The Politics of Ecstasy
With Meg Stuart and Jeremy Wade
www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Jan 25 2009, Hau 3 (Berlin)
Improvisation solo 'getting off' Hau 3
www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
PIECE DESCRIPTIONS
SCHWEBEZUSTAND (suspended in time & space)
created, costumed & performed
by Kathleen Hermesdorf (Motion Lab/San Francisco) & Stephanie Maher (Berlin)
live music
Albert Mathias (Motion Lab/San Francisco), Mangrove Kipling (Berlin) & Matthias Herrmann (Berlin)
video
Yoann Trellu (Berlin)
dramaturgy & management
Gabi Beier (Berlin)
Alice encounters Pandora in wonderland, drinking magical thinking.
distances warp, or is just them, growing and shrinking?
Rollercoaster transportation, transforms, leaving them where they
started, but suspended, drooling and lighter from fright.
Bruce Lee shows how to get out of the box, Leonard Cohen offers
humility and the Tennessee waltz holds the tired talk at the end of the
day.
The memories dance, embedded in the skin. 15 years bleed into 5
seconds, here becomes somewhere else entirely.
Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping,…
I remember you then, when, now, they say to each other and sing, stomp and shriek. Colliding and colluding, they crash, melt, merge and separate; a waltz of intertwining unison notes heard between the teeth. The movie plays on, bigger than life, looping time and space into spools of pixels, catching pixies in the barn and tired ladies on the stairs. Catching moments embedded on the retina, burning on the tongue, shrinking and growing in the heart. They continue, sisters containing cities and stories, continue, containing surprises and secrets, continue, containing space and time, continue …
"Schwebezustand (suspended in space & time)" involves perceptions of
the distances between, the time spent and the language of memory and
now.
It is a duet of choreography and improvisation, created by long-term
collaborators Hermesdorf and Maher, revealing a relationship of
intimate momentum, intricate history and bold choices. Contained within a technical
orchestra of computer and video, warmed by the strings of a cello,
banjo and dotar, Maher and Hermesdorf, with their brilliant collaborators, bring their faraway
lives in sister cities Berlin and San Francisco in line for a moment suspended in time and space.
Shaped over time, "Schwebezustand" is a continual working process and
work-in-progress that has been presented at Tanztage International
Festival in Potsdam, Germany in 2003, Ponderosa Tanz/Land Festival in Stolzenhagen, Germany
in 2003 and 2004 and by Jess Curtis/Gravity in San Francisco in 2004.
It will be featured in Motion Lab's May 2005 Season at ODC Theater as part of the
San Francisco International Arts Festival and premiere in Berlin in
August 2005.