THIS IS (NOT) THE END - Premiere

Description

English version below Tanz / Dance, Performance
Hochzeitssaal
Englisch / English How do embodied practices transmit cultural memory? What forms of belonging and togetherness become possible when bodies and dances do not have to belong to only one tradition (or nation)? By bringing different forms of dancing into contact that have travelled across places, borders, communities and generations, THIS IS (NOT) THE END unsettles familiar ideas of virtuosity, beauty, gender and social propriety. Within Krzysztof Bagiński’s musical landscape and to live piano by Saemi Jeong, the two dancers Elvan Tekin and Samuel Francis Perreira combine, layer and shift these forms, creating a hybrid movement vocabulary in which no dance remains quite what it was before. Choreography, concept, performance: Elvan Tekin Performance: Samuel Francis Pereira
Sound: Krzysztof Bagiński, Saemi Jeong Costume, set design: Evan Loxton
Light design: Robert Prideaux
Production: Tammo Walter
Dramaturgy: Boglárka Börcsök, Jette Bühsenschutz
Outside eye: Irem Aydin, Enad Marouf
Dialogue partner: Simge Burhanoglu A production by Elvan Tekin in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Supported by the residencies in PerformIstanbul, Schloss Bröllin, HAUT Copenhagen, MDT Moderna Dansteatern with kind support of Life Long Burning.