Programme

DANCE ON ENSEMBLE Deborah Hay

Tenacity of Space

Part of “OUT OF NOW / DANCE ON Festival”

Duration 70 min.

Language English 

“Dance is my form of political activism. It is not how I dance or why I dance. It is that I dance.” (Deborah Hay)

Tenacity of Space, Deborah Hay’s demanding work for the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE, is a reaction to the disempowering world conditions of the past year and represents a catastrophic loss of learned dance behaviour. Rather than rely on their physical bodies and what they can do, the DANCE ON quintet was encouraged to relentlessly notice everything in their visual field to support their moving bodies. “Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests…” (Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space).

  • Cast

    Choreography & Direction

    Deborah Hay

    Artistic collaboration

    Jeanine Durning und Ros Warby

    In collaboration with

    Ty Boomershine, Amancio Gonzalez, Brit Rodemund, Christopher Roman und Jone San Martin

    Lighting Design

    Tanja Rühl

    Composition & Live-Electronics

    Mattef Kuhlmey

    Costume Design

    Judith Adam

    Tailoring and Costume-Making

    Sophia Piepenbrock-Saitz

    With

    Ty Boomershine, Jeanine Durning, Brit Rodemund, Christopher Roman, Jone San Martin

  • Credits
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Further Information

Visitor note

Production: DANCE ON/DIEHL+RITTER. Co-production: tanzhaus nrw, ADC-Association Danse Contemporaine Genève. Supported by the NPN Coproduction. Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision made by the German Bundestag. Premiere: 24March 2017, tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf.

DANCE ON is an initative of DIEHL+RITTER gUG, funded by The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON. The DANCE ON Festival is supported by the Capital Cultural Fund in cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Past dates

Fri 2.3.

from 20:30 to 22:30 HAU2

Notes: Afterwards: Open Dialogue #2 / With DANCE ON ENSEMBLE and Tamara Tomic-Vajagic

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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