Production Details / Press Releases
Underneath explores both the feeling of losing ground and that of finding it again, in focusing on the different notions of foundation and (under)ground.
What kind of structures are carrying us, concretely as well as metaphorically? From which areas emerges the desire to set (down) movement and voice, until gesture and speech appear, in the temporary common space proposed by the piece?
By this attention given to the physical as much as poetic depths of a surface, a place, a presence, the piece Underneath proposes a mutation of architectures, with an underground, an overground, and even a horizon.
The dancing bodies, intimately connected to the presence of light and sound, travel through the dimensions from which they will stand up and move, negotiating in a subtle and sometimes abrupt way between the vertical and the horizontal, between impetus and sagging, fight and alliance. So as to navigate between stable and unstable, visible and unseen, interiority and exteriority, guided by what seems to be their ground, their land, their anchorage.
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TFB Nr. 1060
Cast & Credits
Concept, choreography: Aline Landreau
Performance, voice and text: Aline Landreau, Sébastien Chatellier
Music, sound design: Antoine Monzonis-Calvet
Light design: Bruno Pocheron, Emese Csornai
Set design: Aline Landreau, Bruno Pocheron
Dramaturgical advice: Thomas Schaupp
Costumes, outside eye: Marion Montel
Vocal coaching: Ute Wassermann
Set design advice: Tiago Romagnani Silveira
Technical direction: Bruno Pocheron
Production: M.i.C.A. Movement in Contemporary Art (DE), Météores (FR)
PR: kunst kultur projekte berlin – Barbara Gstaltmayr
Coproduction: Tanzfabrik – funded by Senate of Berlin for Culture and Europe, Le Pad Angers, Honolulu Nantes (FR).
With the support of Région Pays de la Loire, city of Nantes, CCNN – National Choreographic Center of Nantes, Wiesen.55 Berlin and Fonds Transfabrik – the French-German fund for performing arts.
Special thanks to Sanja Gergoric, Asier Solana and Mehdi-Toutain Lopez.
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)