We warmly invite you to the third Workspace Evening at Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance!

The Workspace-series at the Produktionszentrum, curated and moderated by Christine Chu and Damaris Veenman, is designed to give artists the opportunity to showcase the current state of their work and receive creative feedback: Choreographers, dancers, and performers will present their current works and engage in dialogue about them; the evening will become a creative space where critical discourse and inspiration flow together.

After the show, there will be soup, drinks, and music to enjoy while chatting! We look forward to welcoming many guests and sharing inspiring moments.

Contributions by Eva Baumann, Selatin Kara & students, Christine Chu, Marion Flor & Katharina Erlenmaier, Alexandra Mahnke, Petra Stransky, Juliette Villemin & students, and Susa Ramsthaler.

Ticket price: Sliding scale from 2 to 6,- €.

PROGRAM

School’s Out!
A performance by Selatin Kara's hip-hop dance group “Bang!” It's school. The principal is enjoying his position as the boss. But where are the teachers? No one knows what to do next! But the students are more than ready for this... School's Out!

Selatin Kara is an international dance educator and choreographer. He studied in Los Angeles, USA. Selatin has danced with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Usher, Shakira, Ricky Martin, and Carlos Santana. He has choreographed for Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Usher, as well as for the first season of “DSDS,” the Noverre Society, and the Stuttgart Ballet. He is a guest lecturer at the John Cranko School, the École Rudra Béjart in Lausanne, the Rotterdam Dance Academy, and the German Professional Association for Dance Education.

Dance: Rebecca Banzbach, Alina Heiter, Luca Heiter, Noah Jadallah, Lorenz Jadallah, Lucie Mattes, Morris Mattes, Mareike Naminga, Paul Kümmerle
Choreography: Selatin Kara in collaboration with the students

being more
Can a dominant, outspoken person who appears consistent, strong, and self-assured on the outside also be insecure in their behavior? Can a quieter, less dominant person also be strong and dominant? Are we more than just what our first impression reveals? “Being more”?...

Dance: Marion Flor and Svenja Hoffeller, students at the Cologne University of Music and Dance
Choreography: Marion Flor
Dramaturgy, Direction, and Choreographic Assistance: Katharina Erlenmaier

Sieben bewegte Klangmikroskopien
In this performance, musician, instrument maker, and sound experimenter Ulrich Hahnel plays the Waterphone, an instrument that sets water in motion. Performer Susa Ramsthaler improvises—at times creating contrasts with the unique sounds, at times following them—using movement and voice.

Performance, Voice: Susa Ramsthaler
Waterphone: Ulrich Hahnel

Material for the Spine
A Reconstructed Steve Paxton Solo

“Material for the spine” explores physical authenticity and the transferability of movement approaches from choreographer to dancer. Steve Paxton’s legendary improvisational performance set to Bach’s Goldberg Variations was created in 1986. About 10 years later, Vincent Dunoyer (a dancer with Ultima Vez and Rosas) learned a version of the piece, which he reinterpreted in “Three Solos for Vincent.” In 2009, he adapted Steve Paxton’s movement material, as well as repertoire by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, and others, for a second generation of dancers in his production “Encore.” In this production, Eva Baumann danced Steve Paxton’s solo, which is derived from his movement school “Material for the Spine” and, despite its simplicity, captivates with its precise articulation.

Performance: Eva Baumann
Choreography: Steve Paxton, restaged in 2009 by Vincent Dunoyer for his production “Encore”

In the foyer: Original video fragment by Steve Paxton set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations

-PAUSE-

Changes
These four short pieces were commissioned for the Esslingen music festival “tonArt,” which is dedicated to the American composer John Cage in 2012. Cage would have turned 100 this year and is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. His close collaboration with choreographer Merce Cunningham, in particular, was revolutionary for both music and dance. Even today, Cage continues to fascinate with his relevance and ingenuity. From the extensive work "Sonatas and Interludes", which is played on a prepared grand piano—another of Cage’s legendary inventions—we have selected several pieces to compose our own dance creations to accompany them, incorporating Cage’s idea of incorporating chance into the movement material.

Dance: Alexandra Mahnke and Christine Chu
Choreography: Christine Chu

Summa Summarum
Ballet dancer and capoeirista Arsenij Lifschiz seeks the challenge of breaking, shattering, and transcending learned forms and qualities of movement to the point of perfection.

The goal is to draw upon his own unique background, to question it, and—through communication and collaboration with choreographer Petra Stransky—to create an individual, expressive movement language. “What is taken for granted and familiar is gradually relativized and broken down to a zero point, at which I begin to venture into movements that are new and authentic to me....”

Invited to the 16th International Solo Dance Theater Festival in Stuttgart, the piece will have its world premiere there on March 17, 2012. As part of the “SHOWROOM” program, Petra Stransky and Arsenij Lifschiz will present their “work in progress”—a solo piece.

Dance: Arsenij Lifschiz
Choreography: Petra Stransky

PLAYING, FALLING
The 11 students at the “Minkov” Dance Training Institute in Winnenden are creating their first collaborative piece based on everyday thoughts and current issues in their own lives. They feel the stress, the changes, and the demands of daily life. Through repeated practice, they build trust in the unknown and thus seek inner balance. Sometimes the “hard work” gets the better of them, and fatigue—along with the feeling of reaching the limits of their own strength—can sometimes overshadow the joy of learning and dancing. What we see is the “playing and falling” of these dance students’ everyday lives.

Dance: Alex, Anjuli, Janina, Kathrin, Kathi, Nadija, Pasha, Sabrina, Silvia, Sofia, Tabea
Concept and Choreography: Juliette Villemin in collaboration with the students of the “Minkov” Dance Training Institute

In the foyer: Video presentation of the performance “Ladies Occupying Spaces” by Ninel Cam