Various adjectives of the first-person alphabet also found their way into the auditorium for the showing in September.
Who are WE (all)?
Due to Ccorona, the spectators were (unfortunately) not allowed to choose their seats. Would you rather have seat on a different chair?
THE OTHERS | DIE ANDEREN
THE OTHERS (DIE ANDEREN), Dance performance by Silke Z. & die Metabolisten
Digitalization and networking in our societies make us think of an apparently direct, immediate proximity. But the supposed abolition of distance does not create more closeness but destroys it. Real closeness to others is becoming increasingly difficult. In order to create closeness, the other must first be identified benevolently. And diversity must be allowed to endure. Processes of rapprochement, however, are increasingly giving way to a growing lack of distance. Identity-less pseudo-equality that remains meaningless.
So who are: THE OTHERS?
Silke Z.’s new dance performance DIE ANDEREN negotiates with the intergenerational ensemble DIE METABOLISTEN the phenomena of proximity and distance in a powerful associative way. Tableaux Vivants emerge in an escalating physical mixture, catapulting us – sometimes desolate, sometimes ordered – into a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
Premiere on December 6th 2019
DATES
PLAY! WILDwest Festival 2021 – digital
Alles könnte anders sein_#Empathie
Funded by: Land NRW
In Cooperation with: kubia
Premiere: 2019 | December
Artistic direction | Silke Z. Co-Director | Angus Balbernie Assistant | Meike Kattwinkel Performance | Angus Balbernie, Malina Hoffmann, Lisa Kirsch, Abine Leao Ka, Bettina Muckenhaupt, Florian Patschovsky, Caroline Simon, Alice Smith, Charles Ripley, Karel Vanek Lighting Design | Garlef Keßler Sound Design | Andre Zimmermann Text and Creative Management | Andreas Richartz Photo/Design | Stefan Henaku-Grabski PR | Konfetti Design
In cooperation with Angus Balbernie, … [Silke Z.] … developed this evening. The Others is the title of their play, that will captivate the audience in an entertaining hour. … Meanwhile, a touching final picture emerges on the stage. And if one sprinkled snow over it, it would be the perfect Christmas story. But it shouldn’t be so much emotion after all. It’s also enough to get the audience to enthusiastic applause. Silke Z. presented a piece that deals with the topic of closeness without sentimentality, but with wit and original ideas. One can look forward to the coming year when Silke Z. will tell us what the emphatic body is all about.
Michael Zerban (O-Ton, Düsseldorf)
Foto: @JacQue Photography
COMFORT ZONE |
MOVE! – 20. Krefelder Tage für modernen Tanz
Tuesday, October 26th I 8pm
Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld
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COMFORT ZONE, dance performance by Silke Z. with John Kendall (Newcastle) and Dennis Schmitz (Cologne)
What happens when we consciously decide to break out of the comfort of streamlined habits? If we dare to return the economy of vanity to a non-designed physicality? Does that bring us back to forgotten originality?
John Kendall and Dennis Schmitz invite us on a circular journey into worlds of movement, which demands our imagination, which abducts us into the total presence of an intimate pact. The two performers dive into a unanimous alliance between their bodies, into an interaction of unknown intensity. Their mutual promise to deny any comfort to each other leads them and the audience out of the comfort zone.
Premiere: 2019 | November
DATES:
Fri, April 30, 2021 I 9 pm I at TANZ NRW I Online Stream via dringeblieben
October 8 – 10, 2021 I Maunula-talo, Helsinki, Finland
Fusion Festival, Müritz 2020 (postponed to 2021 – Corona-Pandemic)
CAST:
Photography © Meyer Originals
BEST OF 65 |
BEST OF 65 celebrates aging – in life and on stage. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, the performer Angus Balbernie embarks on an entertaining journey through time: He recalls weird, comic and intense performance moments of his career and dives into the past – and 20 years of collaboration with choreographer Silke Z. With joint productions, such as the performance series “Unter Uns! Das Generationenprojekt”, the performance “machtMUT” or the dance production “DIE METABOLISTEN – STOFF WECHSELN”. The result is a performance medley that deals with aging on stage and the challenges associated with it in a natural, deeply human and sympathetic way, while at the same time celebrating life and the aging body in a dance performance context.
Premiere: 2019 | 60 min. | 1 performer
DATES
Guest performance:
Danswerkstaedi, Reykjavik, Island
1 April 2020 postponed to 2021 due to the Corona Pandemic
PRESS
“Z. has built up the evening scenically beyond any chronology. So you remain Room for humour, fantasy, poetry and clever remarks. The projection screen becomes a Communication offer. Here Balbernie may express his thoughts, about the physical ailments, which have made his dancing life a very difficult one. Report on its philosophical development, in which dance increasingly takes place in spiritual confrontation, and refuse to answer questions such as “how long does he still want to dance?
(O-Ton)
CREDITS and FOUNDERS
Concept/Choreography: Silke Z.
In collaboration with the performer: Angus Mc Lean Balbernie
Light/Stage: Wolfgang Pütz
Production assistance: Steven Sander
Photo: © Meyer Originals
A production by Silke Z. resistdance.
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Minister President of the State of NRW
OUT SIGHT |
OUT SIGHT deals with different worlds of perception and the effect on our communication. How do we perceive ourselves and the world around us when we focus not only on what is visible, but on everything that is available to us?
How important is the gaze and how reliable is the feeling in contact with others? Is one’s own feeling for the world a reliable consultant when it comes to belonging? How do we navigate through a society that places the highest demands on people and chases superlatives?
OUT SIGHT is a performance project in collaboration with the organisation Vo’arte and the inclusive companies CiM/Lisbon and Silke Z from Cologne. A total of seven dancers* work with and without physical characteristics on the theme of perception and discuss the urgent question of society’s demand for perfection. Vo’Arte is an innovative project that promotes creative dialogue and cultural decentralisation to strengthen relationships between communities and cultures. In 2017, it celebrated the tenth anniversary of the CiM – Dance Company, which includes performers with and without physical characteristics.
Photography © Meyer Originals
Premiere March 2019
DATES
“In Cologne’s free dance scene you rarely see a choreography in which so much dance commitment and such courage to feel is shown.”
(Kölnische Rundschau)
CREDITS and FOUNDERS
Silke Z. – in cooperation with company CiM (Lisbon, PT)
Artistic direction/choreography: Silke Z.
In collaboration with the performers: Joana Gomes (PT), João Furtado (PT), Luis Odriozola (ES), Pedro Ribeiro (PT), Florian Patschovsky (DE), Lisa Kirsch (DE), Caroline Simon (BE)
Assistance: Sofia Soares (PT), Bruno Rodrigues (PT)
Organisation: Gabriel Lapas (PT), Daniela Sopala (DE)
Production Management: Ana Rita Barata
Production: CiM Dance Company (PT), Silke Z. in Gemeinschaft (DE)
Coproduced: Associação Vo‘arte, Associação Paralisia Cerebral Lisboa
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