LUSTOPIA

LUSTOPIA

LUSTOPIA

Silke Z., Laurynas Žakevičius, Airida Gudaitė | Silke Z. X LOWAIR

 

LUSTOPIA is an intergenerational and inclusive stage piece on the themes of desire and utopia, co-produced by choreographers Laurynas Žakevičius and Airida Gudaitė, the urban dance company LOW AIR from Vilnius, Lithuania, and contemporary choreographer Silke Z. from Cologne.

The project brings together six dancers from Lithuania and Germany who differ greatly in age, generation, ability and dance biography.

Individually and as a collective, they follow the lure of Pleasure moments and develop a utopian blueprint of their unique and shared pleasure.

Is LUST bound to certain characteristics such as age, gender, body or disability?

Do shame and insecurities caused by gender ascription, age or disability get in the way of UTOPIA?

The project moves playfully between pleasure, obscenity, bodyshaming and bodypositivity and consciously rubs up against social norms and existing taboos. In the search for a lustful freedom, the joint dance exploration of boundaries and in contact with each other, LUSTOPIA follows the utopia of a moving fusion of bodies.

LUSTOPIA invites the audience to a dance performance experience that explores the differences of each individual and the utopia of a shared identity.

CREDITS / CAST / FUNDING

Artistic direction: Silke Z.
Choreography: Silke Z., Laurynas Žakevičius, Airida Gudaitė.
Dance: Caroline Simon, Hanna Held, David Winking, Grėtė Vosyliūtė, Dmitrijus Andrušanecas, Darius Strankevičius
Lighting + Stage design: Garlef Kesler
Music + Sound design: Liam Giles
Costume: Melina Jusczyk
Management: Hanna Held
Organisation: Rica Hellige
Assistance: Franzika Nagel

The performance is part of the 700th anniversary of Vilnius program

            

           

DATES

Thu 26.10.2023

20:00

ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

Fri 27.10.2023

20:00

ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

Sat 28.10.2023

20:00

ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

TICKETS

Sliding Scale: 8-20 €

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DETAILS

LANGUAGE  German, English

DURATION  65 min. 

WITH US. KAREL (65) MEETS DAVID (25) AND HANNA (28)

WITH US. KAREL (65) MEETS DAVID (25) AND HANNA (28)

WITH US. Karel (65) meets David (25) and Hanna (28)

Guest performance in Vilnius, Lithuania

 

In WITH US, the three dancing bodies of different ages become landscapes that are relentlessly open and surveyed with a radical eye for all details in order to uncover the information they harbour.  WITH US vividly shows how the bodies and the landmarks attached to them provide information about their owners without being asked and divide them into categories such as disabled, old, privileged. Characteristics such as skin colour, wrinkles, scars, facial features, pigmentation or hair structure become landmarks on the map of social standardisation.

The dance and performative measurement takes place between two generations that rarely encounter each other so directly and physically. WITH US creates an intergenerational questioning and encounter in which eye level and categories such as age, disability and skin colour are negotiated. Prejudices, privileges and visibility are negotiated through play and reflected with great political relevance.

WITH US is an intergenerational dance performance with three dancers of the ensemble die metabolisten by choreographer Silke Z. The performance is based on two duos (“WITH US. Karel meets David” and “WITH US. Karel meets Hanna”), which were created in 2022 and 2023 as part of the guest performance series DIVERSITY and were further developed and elaborated into a full-length piece.

CREDITS / CAST / FUNDING

Artistic direction: Silke Z.
Dance: Karel Vaněk, David Winking, Hanna Held
Lighting design: Garlef Keßler
Sound design: Liam Giles
Management: Carina Graf, Hanna Held

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest performance funding dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the Federal States.

   

DATES

Thu 17.08.2023

19:00

Menu Spaustuve (Arts Printing House) | Studio II.

Fri 18.08.2023

19:00

Menu Spaustuve (Arts Printing House) | Studio II.

INFO

➔ menuspaustuve.lt
Šiltadaržio g. 6, 01124 Vilnius, Lithuania

DETAILS

LANGUAGE  English
DURATION  45 min.
WITH US – EPISODE 3: KAREL (65) MEETS HANNA (27)

WITH US – EPISODE 3: KAREL (65) MEETS HANNA (27)

WITH US – EPISODE 3: KAREL (65) MEETS HANNA (27)

Silke Z. & die metabolisten

 

Each of the invited guest performances in the DIVERSITY series is accompanied by a duo dance piece by Silke Z. with dancers from the ensemble die metabolisten, in which the transgenerative perspective on the content of the guest performance is taken up.
Karel and Hanna put themselves in each other’s skin. Themes such as age, shame, belonging and touch are negotiated. The skin as a border to the world offers both performers the possibilities of opening up and communication, as well as resistance and withdrawal.

CREDITS / CAST / FUNDING

Artistic direction and choreography: Silke Z.

In collaboration with:

Dance performance: Hanna Held, Karel Vanek
Sound design, music: Liam Giles
Production management: Charlotte Brune
Administration: Carina Graf
Public relations: Anna Boldt
Video documentation: Barbara Schröer

The guest performance series DIVERSITY is funded by the Diversity Fund of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

WE. THE EMPATHIC BODY VOL. 1

WE. THE EMPATHIC BODY VOL. 1

WE.

THE EMPATHIC BODY VOL. 1 

Silke Z. & die metabolisten

 

GUEST PERFORMANCE IN BONN:
WE. The empathic body Vol. 1 „QUINTET VERSION“

We are emotional.
We are resilient.
We are dependent.
We are loving.
We are uncertain.
We are jealous, assaulting, grateful.
We are strange, tender, ignorant, freaky.
We are online.
We are diverse.

Humans as social beings have the ability to empathise with others, to put
themselves in their place, to take the place of the other. WE transfers the
natural forms of emotional contagion into dance-choreographic settings. The
performers walk tightrope between attraction and aversion, affection and
assault.

In WE, Silke Z.’s ensemble die metabolisten negotiates empathy and
faces the invasive, encroaching side of empathy. This first production of the
project THE EMPATHIC BODY lays the foundation for a perennial
examination of the topic of empathy. The intergenerational company is
looking for new performative perspectives to approach the complexity of
themes and cultivate feelings of WE.

QUINTET-VERSION

Artistic direction + choreography: Silke Z.
Performance: Daniela Riebesam, Caroline Simon, Hanna Held, Bettina Muckenhaupt, David Winking
Lighting design: Garlef Keßler
Costume + stage: Claudia Grünig, Silke Z. and team
Dramaturgical advice: Barbara Fuchs, André Zimmermann
Sound consulting: André Zimmermann
Administration/Management: Hanna Held
Production assistance: Clara Roth
Video documentation: Barbara Schröer

The revival is financed with the kind support of:

 

CREDITS / CAST / FUNDING

Artistic direction + Choreography: Silke Z.
Performance: Daniela Riebesam, Caroline Simon, Dennis Schmitz, Bettina Muckenhaupt, Jimin Seo, David Winking
Lighting design: Wolfgang Pütz
Costume + Stage: Claudia Grünig, Silke Z. und Team
Dramaturgical advice: Barbara Fuchs, André Zimmermann
Sound advice: André Zimmermann
Dance education: Caroline Simon, Dennis Schmitz, Andrea Marton, Hanna Held
Administration/Management: Hanna Held
Public relations: Vinya Cameron
Press work: Kerstin Rosemann
Photo documentation: Claudia Grünig
Video documentation: Barbara Schröer

The overall concept is supported by the following partners: Coproduction
Fokus Tanz e.V. Munich, Junges Schauspielhaus BochumCooperation
Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Cologne, ehrenfeldstudios e.V.

Funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the 3-year conceptual funding and the city of Cologne as part of the multi-year project funding.

The performances in Helsinki are supported by Exportförderung Land NRW.

PAST DATES

Cirko – Center for New Circus | Helsinki, Finland:

15.03.23 – 7 pm
16.03.23 | 7 pm

ehrenfeldstudios | Cologne:

11.11.21 – 10 am (school performance)
12.11.21 – 10 am (school performance)
13.11.21 – 4 pm (family performance)
14.11.21 – 4 pm (family performance)

Theaterrevier | Bochum:

06.11.21 – 7:30 pm
07.11.21 – 6 pm
08.11.21 – 10 am

DATES

Thu 02.11.2023

20:00

Brotfabrik Bonn

Fri 03.11.2023

20:00

Brotfabrik Bonn

TICKETS

Regular: 15 €
Discount: 10 €
Supporters: 20 €
Students with culture ticket: 3 €
Tickets here

DETAILS

LANGUAGE  German
DURATION  1h
THE AGEING BODY

THE AGEING BODY

THE AGEING BODY

Dance research labs for people 55+

ARE YOU OVER 55 YEARS OLD?

ARE YOU CURIOUS?

ARE YOU KEEN TO MOVE?

Sign up for our next DANCE LAB. We explore MOVEMENT and BODY in AGE(ING) dance, physically, playfully and always in exchange with each other. What do I gain from age(ing)? We EXPLORE this and more together. The lab is led by choreographer Silke Z. and dancer Caroline Simon.

!! Please note the changed time: On Thursday at 5pm there will be the opportunity to participate in the presentation of the lab results.

For ALL with or without previous experience. For ALL with or without physical peculiarities. For ALL !

LAB DATES 2023
27.03. – 31.03.| ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne
25.09. – 28.09. | ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

NEXT LAB WEEK:

22.01.2024 – 27.01.2024

REGISTRATION

Do you want to participate?
Sign up at:
vermittlung@resistdance.de
0221 222 666 3

 

Costs and sponsorships*
Sliding Scale: 150 – 350 €
*There is the possibility to take over a sponsorship (assumption of costs) for people with low income. Just get in touch with us if a sponsorship can be taken over or should be needed.

DETAILS

No previous experience is required for participation.