Production Details / Press Releases
What do Pina Bausch and the ZDF Hit Parade have in common, especially in terms of their nation-building character? Inspired by the subtitle “Schlagerballett” (“Hit Ballet”) of an early work by Bausch and her company, which could perhaps be described as Germany’s most successful export of high culture, choreographer and performer Joana Tischkau sets out in search of ways to queer the German national narrative. In the tradition of Black German pop stars such as Roberto Blanco, Randolph Rose, Marie Nejar, and Tina Daute, the performers dance and sing their way to an aesthetic Germanness that makes sense regardless of Whiteness and heteronormativity. After “Last Night a DJ Took My Life” (Schauspielhaus Zürich), Joana Tischkau pulls out another box from the archive of the Deutsches Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music (German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music), which opened at HAU in 2020 to unpack the unlikely yet plausible matrix of Germany, showbiz, and White supremacy.
Joana Tischkau is a freelance choreographer and performer. In her work, she strives to expose the absurdity and arbitrariness of various mechanisms of oppression, drawing on postcolonial theories, feminist discourses, and pop cultural phenomena. She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.
[Source: hebbel-am-ufer.de]
TFB Nr. 1924
Cast & Credits
Artistic Direction & Choreography: Joana Tischkau
Performance & Choreography: Dayron Domínguez Piedra, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Elli Hampe, Moses Leo, Deborah Macauley, Carlos Daniel Valladores Carvajal, Sophie Yukiko, Anne-Kathrin Hartmann
Sound: Frieder Blume
Sound Assistance: Kairo Fumilayo Edward
Costume: Nadine Bakota
Stage: Carlo Siegfried
Lighting design, technical direction: Hendrik Borowski
Collaboration Direction: Anta Helena Recke
Producer: Lisa Gehring
Assistance production: Lianne Mol
Assistance stage design: Marie Göhler
Outside Eye/Input: Dr. Mariama Diagne
Production: Joana Tischkau
Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm
Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
Cooperation research: Malpaso Dance Company / Verbindungsbüro Goethe-Institut Havanna
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
Stresemannstr. 29
10963 Berlin
Tickets: +49 (0)30 259 004 27
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de
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)