Doris Uhlich
Come Back
Dance / Ballet
Dates
5.–7.10.2012
Details
Premiere:
5.10.2013
Wiederholungen:
6.10.2013
7.10.2013
Location
MUMUTH
Graz
Production specifics
Koproduktion steirischer herbst, brut (Wien), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main) & Festspielhaus St. Pölten
insert (Theaterverein) wird gefördert durch die
Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Kopräsentation NXTSTP
unterstützt durch das Kulturprogramm der Europäischen Union
Five former ballet dancers return to the stage years after retiring from their active careers. While their contemporaries were changing society and the world at the end of the sixties, they were training at the barre. Did they follow this time of new beginnings happening around them? Were they aware of the changes taking place outside?
Now, as pensioners, they are establishing their own revolutionary movement with radical self-irony. Together with the young Viennese choreographer Doris Uhlich, who has already worked with former dancers in her piece “Spitze”, they have spent a year engaged in futurist archaeology. Without nostalgia and without personal justification, they search for the marks left inside their bodies by the ballet hierarchy and its rigorous body techniques. They do not look back, but forward: What mobilising power is here and now inside these disciplined bodies which have been changed by time?
“Come Back” is not a piece about ballet, although it is always present. Doris Uhlich’s performative modus operandi grapples with the bodies, discarded by ballet standards, and sets out into a landscape of motion that perceives its limits as a political opportunity.
Choreografie: Doris Uhlich
Tänzerin / Tänzer: Marialuise Jaska
Tänzerin / Tänzer: Susanne Kirnbauer
Tänzerin / Tänzer: Percy Kofranek
Tänzerin / Tänzer: Renate Loucky
Tänzerin / Tänzer: Violetta Springnagel-Storch
Dramaturgie: Constanze Schellow
Bühnenbild, Ausstattung, Raumgestaltung: Alexander Schellow
Lichtregie: Monika Gruber
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Yoshie Maruoka
Mediathek
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