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Programme

Ligia Lewis

Water Will (in Melody)

Part of “Complaint, A Lyric. A Retrospective by Ligia Lewis”

Duration 60 mins.

Language German audio description  English 

“Water Will (in Melody)” is a devised choreographic work for four performers using melodrama as a point of departure. Wrestling with language and notions of "the will", this dystopic fantasy becomes a space for negotiating desire, imagination, and feelings of an encroaching end. Unfolding with playful inventiveness, a wet and cavernous landscape becomes host to a fiction that invites instability, recreation, and catastrophe. Lewis initiates this world in which voice, gesture, touch and movement, flow like waves –– both gentle and turbulent. Through the language of mimesis, Lewis and her performers engage with the porousness of the theater by producing a fantastical-like materiality translucent to its metaphoric and symbolic weight. Surrendering to the possibilities of the haptic, sense gets un-done to get re-done, paving way for an-“othered” organization of sight and touch. Through this process of alienation, exteriorization, and materialization, this melodrama touches the borders of its own making giving life to both the emotional landscape of its protagonists as well as to the theater itself.

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  • Cast

    Concept, choreography & artistic direction

    Ligia Lewis

    Development with original performers

    Titilayo Adebayo, Dani Brown, Susanne Sachsse

    Performance

    Dani Brown, Ligia Lewis, Jolie Ngemi, Susanne Sachsse

    Dramaturgy

    Maja Zimmermann

    Light Design

    Ariel Efraim Ashbel

    Sound Design

    Jassem Hindi, S. McKenna

    Sound (touring)

    Max Eilbacher

    Set design

    Eike Böttcher

    Technical direction & lighting

    Catalina Fernandez

    Costume design

    sowrong studio

    Assistance

    Carina Zox, Gilad Bendavid

    Original Production management

    Hannes Frey (HAU Hebbel am Ufer)

    Administration (touring)

    Julia Leonhardt

    Touring & distribution

    Nicole Schuchardt

  • Credits
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Further Information

Visitor note

Production: Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-production: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 / Centre D’Art Contemporain (Genf), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), donaufestival (Krems), Arsenic Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Supported by: Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC).

Notes:

With Haptic Access Tour (19:30) and audio description (German)

Past dates

  • Premiere

    Thu 29.11.

    from 20:00 to 21:30 HAU1

  • Fri 30.11.

    from 20:00 to 21:30 HAU1

    Notes: Afterwards: Artist Talk

  • Sat 1.12.

    from 20:00 to 21:30 HAU1

  • Sun 2.12.

    from 20:00 to 21:30 HAU1

Location

  • HAU1
    Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin

    There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. 
    Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to book tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons for all events via the ticketing system. If you have any questions or would like to book, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

  • HAU2
    Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

    There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
    Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to book tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons for all events via the ticketing system. If you have any questions or would like to book, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

    Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:

    If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.

    Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:

    When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.

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