A series by FITZ! – Theater animierter Formen, Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance and Stuttgarter Filmwinter

Every two months, on a Tuesday evening, SHORTIES brings together short works by artists from Stuttgart and Baden-Württemberg in the fields of dance, puppetry and film, creating a unique cultural experience.

Programme

DANCE

»Fragments« // Mike Planz & Donya Ahmadifar

Fragments is a choreographic space of approximation, a border area where language disintegrates and the body becomes the bearer of an older, nameless knowledge. Breath opens fine cracks in the fabric between self and other, as if something foreign and indeterminate were pushing inward from there. An echo pervades the space—a question never formulated, which does not answer but conjures. Movement appears as a ritual without origin, as a circling trail that devours itself. Gestures emerge like relics of something forgotten and sink back beneath the surface.

Choreography: Mike Planz
Dance: Donya Ahmadifar
Dramaturgical accompaniment: Johannes Szilvássy



THEATER

»Es geht mir gut« // HMDK Stuttgart
A play with puppets, recorders, and texts by Peter Licht

I'm fine. I'm healthy and I have money. The sun is shining and every now and then a drop falls from the sky. But something isn't right. The world could lose its balance. The production by the second-year puppetry students at HMDK Stuttgart was loosely based on “Die Geschichte meiner Einschätzung am Anfang des dritten Jahrtausends” (The Story of My Assessment at the Beginning of the Third Millennium) by Peter Licht and created in collaboration with recorder students.

Play: Elio Jaeger, Zina Strunz, Josepha Flemming (students in Prof. Julika Mayer and Jule Hölzgen's class)
Recorder: Anna Zimmermann and Sumin Yu (students in Carolin Daub's class)



FILM

Short Film Special // Stuttgarter Filmwinter

A curated selection of short films from Stuttgarter Filmwinter, curated by Giovanna Thierry, adds a cinematic perspective to the evening and enters into a thematic dialogue with the stage works.

Curation: Giovanna Thierry