"There is a river. It's called madness. There are leaves floating in it. They are called truth. You just have to fish out the leaves and bring them to the shore. But there are a lot of them. And the river is flowing fast. Perhaps faster than the Internet. Or maybe not ..."
Rolf Baumgart - playwright
"24/7 New Sins"
.Production: Polish Dance Theatre
.Coproduction: bodytalk
.Choreography and direction: Yoshiko Waki
Dramaturgy: Rolf Baumgart
.Assistant choreographer: Momoko Baumgart
.Music: Patryk Pilasiewicz and collage and adaptation: Antonio Vivaldi, Steve Reich, Andrew Konieczny, Melanie Martinez
Costumes and set design: Nanako Oizumi
.Light direction: Timo von der Horst
.Video: Sven Stratmann
Sculptures: Hagen Keller
.Light, sound and video management: Dominik Dudek, Michal Beszczynski
Creation: artist-dancers: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Julia Halka, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulminska, Dominik Kupka, Aleksandra Kuś, Daniel Michna, Jinwoo NamKung, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk
Creation.
Production coordination: Monika Zembrzycka
Duration: 60 minutes
About the show:
.Fatal sins need mortal sinners, and cardinal virtues need guardians of their virtues. Sins and virtues - the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
The river as the Internet, and in it Sinfluencers, Dancefluencers, Infludancers.
"24/7 New Sins." - with 16 dancers and a live musician - is bodytalk's fourth co-production with the Polish Dance Theater (Poznań), following JEWROPE (2014 Cologne City Dance Theater Award), SOLIDARITOT (named "Performance of the Year" in the 2019 "Jahrbuch Tanz" - Dance Yearbook) and ROMEOS & JULIAS UNPLAGUED.TRAUMSTADT (main prize Golden Yorick at the 26th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk in 2022).
Tickets, priced at PLN 120 (regular ticket) and PLN 80 (concessionary ticket), can be purchased at www.bilety24.pl and at the headquarters of the Polish Dance Theater, Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and one hour before each performance.
Link to tickets for the premiere
.The next performance - April 24 at 8 p.m.
.Tickets: PLN 90 (N), PLN 60 (U)
. .About Bodytalk
.Artistic collective founded in 2008 in Cologne by Rolf Baumgart, director, composer and author of opera librettos, and Yoshiko Waki, a soloist and choreographer of Japanese descent who has worked with dance companies around the world from Hamburg to Hong Kong. Drawing on the experience of the famous Johann Kresnik Choreographic Theater, of which Yoshiko Waki was a member, Bodytalk creates performances that are imbued with emotion and heat, described by German dance critics as "intelligently noisy" or "Dionysian." Bodytalk's trademark is live music, performed during each performance. The collective creates theater firmly rooted in the local community, engaging in many community projects. Since 2016, he has been invited as an artist-in-residence by the Theater at Pumpenhaus in Münster(Germany). His work has received numerous awards, including the Movement-Art award for the best independent production of the year and the Bremen Award for Authors and Producers.
Rolf Baumgart - director, playwright, composer
.Director, composer, musician, author of opera librettos. He has worked with the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden or the Akademie der Künste Berlin. He co-creates performances with Kain Karawahn, presented at Festival Neue Musik Rümlingen in Switzerland, Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Austria, and Performance Arts Festival in Cleveland (USA).Honored with many awards, among them: Kölner Tanztheater-Preis, Bewegungskunst-Preis Leipzig and Bremer Autoren- und Produzentenpreis.
Yoshiko Waki - choreographer, director
.She received her diploma from the Department of Dance and Dance Pedagogy at the State Conservatory of Music and Dance in Heidelberg-Mannheim, Germany. She has danced and choreographed all over the world. She has performed at the City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong and at the Volksbühne in Berlin, Johann Kresnik's Choreographic Theater, whose brutalist aesthetic was once considered, along with the Tanztheater Wuppertal, the most invigorating current in dance theater. She has worked with the Bonn Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also worked on alternative stages,
.Nanako Oizumi - set and costume designer
.Studied fine arts at Tama University of the Arts in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating, she worked as an assistant set designer and then as a freelance set designer at various public theaters and on the independent stage in Tokyo. In 2013, she came to Germany as part of a grant for young artists sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture. She currently works as a set and costume designer at the Bremen Theater, Münchner Kammerspiele and Kösk Munich.
Patryk Pilasiewicz - composer
.A lecturer at the Institute of Jazz and Stage Music at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan. Doctor habilitated in the field of musical arts (habilitated in 2018 at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz). Music director of the Big Band of the Academy of Music in Poznań (since 2001). Winner of 1st place in the 2nd Krzysztof Komeda International Composition Competition in Slupsk (1997). President of the Association of Lovers of Krzysztof Komeda's Works "Astigmatic" (and its founder). Member of the Polish Haiku Association.
.Sven Stratmann (AQUIET) - video
.A graduate of ArtEz AKI (Netherlands) in 2008. He works in animation, directing, camera work, editing and set design. In addition to individual artworks (mainly large-format projection mapping or video installations), Stratmann mainly focuses on collaborations with musicians and theatrical productions, ranging from opera to dance to classical plays. In addition to video projects, he is also the co-creator of the AV-PICKNICK audiovisual concert series and the RESET Mixed Arts Festival.
.Photograph by Andrzej Grabowski
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