Seismic
This piece was created and produced in the frame of the tYhle collective (CZ),
the Matière Mobile company (FR)
and the company Von B biz Z (DE)
SEISMIC – a dance and physical theatre production that places the scenographic construction at its conceptual heart. A piece for four international performers created by choreographer Marie Gourdain (FR) and dance and theatre maker Felix Baumann (DE).
The action takes place on an unstable and fragmented platform, which may tip, shake or break in response to the movements of the protagonists. It constitutes an extremely uncertain base whereupon the characters display themselves, alone, in pairs, or as a group - thereby risking life and limb. The figures encounter challenges in relation to each other, tirelessly navigating through the instability surrounding them, altering their behaviour, provoking risks, endangering balance and control, threatening to lose the ground under their feet. Situations transform from the ordinary to the absurd, from the banal to the metaphorical.
Through dance, humour and scenographic installation, Seismic tells about a relationship of mutual dependence, in which each body is simultaneously exposed to the mechanics of the space and of the other bodies – a permanent transformation of things in a circular and interdependent sense; a power relationship whose origins are blurred in the mix of events.
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Credits :
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Choreography / Direction: Marie Gourdain,
Felix Baumann
Performers: Felix Baumann, Sean Henderson,
Till Jenewein, Halka TÅ™ešÅˆáková
In collaboration with : Johana Pocková,
Dramaturgical consultant: Jakub Režný
Light design: Zuzana Režná
Sound design: Thibault Cohade
Musical assistant: Lukáš Palán
Costume design: Magdalena Vrabová
Scenography: Jan TomšÅ¯ in collaboration with
Marie Gourdain and Felix Baumann
Production: Matière Mobile, tYhle, Von B bis Z
Production managers: Sarah Corroyer (FR), Ludmila Šindlerová (CZ), Claudia Teichmann (DE)
Pproduction consultant: Dirk Förster (DE)
Coproduction: PONEC – dance venue (CZ), LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig (DE), Les SUBS Lyon (FR), CCNR Rilleux-la-pape (FR)
Other partners: Studio ALTA (CZ), Schloss Bröllin (DE), MS Schrittmacher (DE)
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Photos : VojtÄ›ch Brtnický
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The project was financially supported by the DRAC – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – Aide à la création, French Institute, the Metropolis and City of Lyon, the Spedidam. In the Czech Republic by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic, the Czech-German Fund for Future, Prague City Hall, the City of Brno.”
In Germany the project was supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance as well as the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which are funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the City of Leipzig - cultural office (DE).
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