Production Details / Press Releases
A dance of transformation, inside the junkspace and beyond it.
»Esprit« is a dance piece about the physical transformations that our bodies experience in globalized spaces. It asks which dances airports or shopping centers – spaces designated as Junkspace by the architect Rem Koolhaas – bring about. What characterizes the dances of locations that, as a product of modernization, reject local identity? »Esprit« is an attempt to be moved by these non-places: the dancers travel through the Junkspace, within the euphoria of consumption, they defy anesthetization and create new spaces with their bodies.
SUDDENLY consists of:
Johanna Ackva (DE), Camille Chapon (FR/DE), Ewa Dziarnowska (PL/DE), Björn Ivan Ekemark (SE/DE), Forough Fami (IR/DE), Anna Fitoussi (IR/DE), Magdalena Meindl (AU/DE), Julia Plawgo (PL/DE), Lyllie Rouvière (FR/DE), Sunanyana Shetty (IN/DE), Grete Šmitaite (LT/DE), Hanna Kritten Tangsoo (EE/DE), Alistair Watts (AU/DE)
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TFB Nr. 1337
Cast & Credits
Suddenly:
Concept, choreography, spatial dramaturgy: Lyllie Rouvière
Co-dramaturgy: Johanna Ackva
Dance assistance: Sunayana Shetty
Dance: Johanna Ackva, Camille Chapon, Ewa Dziarnowska, Björn Ivan Ekemark, Forough Fami, Anna Fitoussi, Magdalena Meindl, Julia Plawgo, Sunayana Shetty, Grete Šmitaite, Hanna Kritten Tangsoo, Alistair Watts
Grafics: Ivan Björn Ekemark
Suddenly’s guests:
Technical managment: Nikola Jasmin Pieper
Music: Mars Dietz
Set design, costume: Julian Weber
Light design: Emilio Cordero Checa
Production management: Inge Zysk, Raquel Moreira
Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Co-production: Tanzfabrik Berlin
Special thanks to: Frauke Havemann, Julek Kreutzer and Leifur Eriksson
Open Spaces
Artistic director: Ludger Orlok
Production management: Juan Harcha
Organization: Vincenz Kokot
Communication, press, editorial: Felicitas Zeeden
Technical management: Martin Pilz
Festival assistance: Dominique Tegho
The performance program of the Tanzfabrik Berlin is supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and apap – Performing Europe 2020, co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Tanzfabrik Berlin / Wedding
Uferstr. 23
13357 Berlin
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)