Production Details / Press Releases
Imagine a photo of a family of four. Beginning of the 1990s, in early spring. They are standing next to each other on the soon-to-be-green bank of the Oder River, looking into the camera. They are all wearing the same looking, brand-new windbreaker jackets in colours blending into the landscape of a dirty urban springtime – grey for the father, purple for the mother, red-blue and gray-brown for the sons. Everyone seems happy, except for the youngest son – his sour face clearly expresses embarrassment and disappointment as if he would rather be somewhere else.
Romuald Krężel’s new solo draws from his personal and artistic experience. By revisiting his very first dance experience in life: a Ballroom Dance course – the only one offered for free in his primary school, he intends to focus on various aspects of classism in the performing arts context. By re-learning and critically evoking movements, steps, poses and different styles of Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Jive, etc, he attempts to investigate his social-class background and its relation to his current choreographic practice. The ghostly figures, post-punk music and aesthetics will support him in this return to his past.
[Source: uferstudios.com]
TFB Nr. 1769
Cast & Credits
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE: Romuald Krężel
DRAMATURGY: Agata Siniarska
RESEARCH SUPPORT: Tamara Antonijević
COSTUME: Maldoror
TECHNICAL DIRECTION, LIGHT DESIGN: Patrick Faurot
SOUND DESIGN, MUSIC DIRECTION: Miguel Caldas
SOUND DESIGN ASSISTANT: Zach Hart
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT: Louis F. Baca V.
PRESS WORK: Kerstin Böttcher
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: Emmilou Roessling, Silja Korn
PRODUCTION: Anna Konrad
ARTISTIC SUPPORT: Carolina Mendonça, René Alejandro Huari Mateus
A production by Romuald Krężel in co-production with Uferstudios in Berlin and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts in Dresden.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Supported by the Residency Program funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Station – Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade/Serbia, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
With the friendly support of Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.
Uferstudios
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)