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Even though there were times when dancing to music was unthinkable in Europe and, much later, when modern dance seemed happy to forgo music altogether, the histories of dance and music are inextricably linked with one another. And nowadays when contemporary dancers team up with classically trained musicians who are keen to experiment, anything is possible – though that doesn’t mean that everything will be cleared up once and for all.
In “for four”, choreographer Stephanie Thiersch insightfully encourages unexpected encounters and poetic collisions between three dancers and the internationally touring ensemble Asasello Quartet. With humorous sincerity and new music that oscillates between subtle and impulsive and often evades every cliché of danceability, “for four” challenges our sense of hearing as well as our grasp of time.
2015 marks a new version of “Nature Morte” presented in cooperation with a string quartet for the first time. The choreography spurs reflection on people, nature and animals whose implications sometimes clash yet are often similar. “Nature Morte” depicts how inanimate man can be in nature and how lively nature can be in man: “A touching, powerful scenario featuring the raw, lumbering inhabitants of an intermediate world at lawn’s end. As if they’d forgotten how to live as humans yet also failed as animals.” (Melanie Suchy, Rheinische Post)
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ASASELLO-QUARTETT
Rostislav Kozhevnikov
(1. Violine),
Barbara Kuster (2. Violine), Justyna Sliwa (Viola),
Wolfgang Zamastil (Cello)
FOR FOUR
CONCEPT, PRODUCTION
Stephanie Thiersch
DANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY
Viviana Escalé, Mu-Yi Kuo, Valenti Rocamora i Torà
VIDEO, STAGE
Martin Rottenkolber
COSTUME
Sabine Schneider
LIGHT DESIGN, TECHNICAL DIRECTION
Niko Moddenborg
DRAMATURGICAL ADVICE
Anna Volkland
ASSISTANT DIRECTION
Jan Rohwedder
MANAGEMENT
Béla Bisom
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Karolin Henze
DURATION
35 minutes
PRODUCTION
MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch in cooperation with
Asasello-Quartett
CO-PRODUCTION
tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, freihandelszone – Ensemblenetzwerk Köln
FUNDED BY
Kunststiftung NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln
NATURE MORTE
CHOREOGRAPHY
Stephanie Thiersch in cooperation with Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
DANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY
Viviana Escalé
Valenti Rocamora i Torà
SOUND
Deathprod, Joseph Suchy
VIDEO, STAGE
Martin Rottenkolber
COSTUME
Sabine Schneider
LIGHT DESIGN, TECHNICAL DIRECTION
Niko Moddenborg
MANAGEMENT
Béla Bisom
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Ines Disselbrede,
Karolin Henze
DURATION
35 minutes
PRODUCTION
MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch in cooperation with Freihandelszone Ensemblenetzwerk Köln
CO-PRODUCTION
tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf
SUPPORTED BY
Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Kunststiftung NRW, RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur, SK Stiftung Kultur
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NATURE MORTE, Photos: Martin Rottenkolber