TextTanz 

Fri, 24.06.05, 8pm (Premiere)
Sat, 25.06.05, 7pm
Sun, 26.06.05, 8pm
HAU 2
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin

Entry: 12/9 EUR

With phase7 performing.arts, Chantal Maillard

From June 24th to 26th 2005 the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin will link poetry with dance and dedicate two works, in the year of Cervantes, to Spain’s most famous visionary: Don Quixote. The Spanish poet Chantal Maillard will write new texts especially for the occasion. 

Part 1
Debut performance: Q
A dance to the poem El desencanto de Don Quijote (The disenchantment of Don Quixote) by Chantal Maillard

A poem catalyses dance, which will develops alongside the poetic rhythmicity and unfold parallel to the text that Chantal Maillard will herself read. The “dance-poem” emerging from this link will take spectators off on their own, independent journey, the path of which will meet up with that of the poem, cross it and leave it again. The dancers will trace the emotions underlying the poem and convert them into movement, in this way linking together dance and spoken expression. Chantal Maillard has written a new text especially for the evening.

Choreography: Dan Pelleg, Marko E. Weigert
Text: Chantal Maillard
With: Dan Pelleg, Marko E. Weigert, Maya Lipsker, Mimi Messner, Chantal Maillard
Costume: Pedro Richter 

“Q“ is a joint project by phase7 performing.arts and Marko E. Weigert/Dan Pelleg (wee dance company)

Part 2
delusions
A delusion is an unshakable belief in something untrue

In delusions, a cross-media performance, phase7 tackles the issue of communication with the ego, the opponent and the virtual image. Projections will join up with sound and media art. Special software will convert the movements of the dancers into real-time video projections to create ghost performers, which the cast will amplify. At the same time the random movements will generate a question-answer dialogue, which, through its randomness however, remains futile. The dance will release poetry and bring it to life.

Artistic direction: Sven Sören Beyer
Concept: Sven Sören Beyer/Christiane Neudecker
Costume: Pedro Richter/Sabine Hahn
Percussion/composition: Markus Hauke
Sound programming & simulation: Sasse Baumhof/Christian Steinhäuser
Software art: Frieder Weiß
Choreography/dance: Lydia Klement/Emily Fernandez
Text: Christiane Neudecker/Chantal Maillard
Narrator: Oliver Wronka
Technical direction phase7: Sven Nichterlein

delusions is a co-production of phase7 performing.arts with the Forum Neues Musiktheater der Staatsoper Stuttgart, revised for the poesiefestival berlin.

With the kind support of the Instituto Cervantes.

The poesiefestival berlin is funded by