PAUL GAZOLLA – TWO/ THU 22 & FRI 23 NOV, 20.00 U / MELKWEG
The concept of Two is developed out of the long-term friendship of two dancers and the potential of their unspoken relationship. Focused on what was equally visible in what was not said and done. Two shows us a world of creating invisible histories - actual and implied.
Two - Self-sufficiency onstage. The body doubled. Indentical actions repeated in unison. Live-cameras and delay computers creating other permutations. Intricate temporal structures intertwined in the mechanical effect of the video playback. Manipulating perspectives. Exaggerating silence. The multiplication of bodies - displacing virtuality. Two - A duo that aims to speak about the individual.
DIRECTION: PAUL GAZOLLA PERFORMANCE: JESSYKA WATSON-GALBRAITH, FLORENCIA LAMARCA CHOREOGRAPHY: AIMEE SMITH, JESSYKA WATSON-GALBRAITH VIDEO: DANIEL KÖTTER DRAMATURGY: KERSTINSCHROTH LIGHT DESIGN: JÖRG BITTNER CO-PRODUCTION SOPIENSEALE & GAZEBO64
The Australian artist Paul Gazolla lives en works in Berlin. His interdisciplinary practice utilizes a multiplicity of strategies in the production of performances, choreographies and multi-media installations for stages, galleries and site-specific settings.
ANDCOMPANY&CO – TIME REPUBLIC / THU 22 & FRI 23 NOV, 22.00 U / GASTHUIS
We write the year 50 according to the calculation of time by the cosmic comsomolzkis: In 1957 the Soviet Union managed to shoot a small ‘accompanist’ into orbit and thus gave the starting signal for space-travel. A sputnik-shock for the western world, because finally it became obvious that the Soviet-Union was now able to reach America with rockets.
From this zero-point Time Republic takes off to tell another story of the 20th century about forgotten promises of a future past. And about this last cosmonaut, who was circulating alone in outer space in 1991, while deep down below him on Earth the Soviet-Union dissolved. Andcompany&Co. is searching for the presence of the future in the present and thus resorts to the past to found a state, which doesn’t exist on a territory, but in time.
FEATURING: BINI ADAMCZACK, NOAH FISCHER, ALEZANDER KARSCHNIA, VETTKA KIRILLOVA, NICOLA NORD, SASCHA SULIMMA, SERJOSCHA WIEMER &CO. STAGEDESIGN: NOAH FISCHER &CO. MASKS & PROPS: HILA FLASHKES
Time Republic is a production by andcompany&Co. In co-production with mit Steirischer Herbst, Sophiensaele Berlin and Gasthuis Amsterdam, Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Kampnagel Hamburg, Kultur im Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr.
The young international artist’s network andcompany&Co. was founded in 2003 by Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma as platform for collaborative theatre-works. www.andco.de Recent works from Andcompany&Co. are Europe an alien (Gasthuis 2005) and Little Red (Play): ‘herstory’ (Gasthuis 2006). This last production received huge international attention and was invited to the KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 07 in Brussels in May and to the festival Premières in Straßbourg in July 2007. Andcompany&Co. is associated to Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.
KATE MCINTOSH – LOOSE PROMISE / THU 29 & FRI 30 NOV, 20.00 U / MELKWEG
Some stories are treason, some are dreamy, some are brutal, some are too painful to tell straight, some are too funny to believe, some are magical and others are poorly made, some lack innocence, some are beautiful but difficult to remember.
Loose Promise is a solo work, for which the performer struggles to deliver a knotted, many faced narrative. On stage she sets herself the task of untangling several stories from strongly different voices - but which are somehow, perhaps mysteriously, connected. She reaches for coherence, even as the narrative shifts and slips.
CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE: KATE MCINTOSH TEXT: TIM ETCHELLS, DEBORAH LEVY, JO RANDERSON, RICHARD MAXWELL, M JOHN HARRISON & KATE MCINTOSH ARTISTIC ADVICE: LILIA MESTE, DIEDERIK PEETERS, CAROLINE DAISH, KATJA DREYER COPRODUCER: SOPHIENSEALE (D)
Originally from New Zealand, Kate McIntosh lives and works in Brussels. She performed as a dancer in several companies before shifting her own work towards theatre, performance and making video. She initiates her own work but also collaborates on many projects, including the music and performance collective Poni. In the past she has worked with people such as Random Scream, Wendy Houston, and Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre.
DAVID WEBER-KREBS – THE WORDS JONATHAN SAID / THU 29 & FRI 30NOV, 22.00 U / GASTHUIS
For more than twenty-five years the Benedictine monk Jonathan has suffered from a very special kind of epilepsy. Doctors now call his disease ‘prophesia’: to suffer from spells of prophecy. At first his case only raised interest within the medical community. Later it even caught the attention of some secret services. After This performance en Fade out, The words Jonathan said is the last part of a trilogy on the place of fiction in theatre.
The words Jonathan said is a coproduction of Gasthuis Theater, Sophiensaele Berlijn and LISA.
CONCEPT & DIRECTION: DAVID WEBER-KREBS TEXT: DAVID WEBER-KREBS, MATTHEW GOULISH (GOAT ISLAND) PERFORMANCE: GODEHARD GIESE, DIEGO GIL, HANNA HEGENSCHEIDT, MANFRED OLEK WITT VOICES: ROBIN ARTHUR, SHAUN LAWTON, DULCIE SMART, SIMON NEWBY, ELENA POLZER ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE : MAGNE VAN DEN BERG COSTUMES: MYRIAM VAN GUGHT SOUND: COORDT LINKE SOUND RECORDINGS: NORMAN THÖREL DRAMATURGICAL ADVICE: JAN-PHILIPP POSSMANN
David Weber-Krebs (1974, Belgium) develops ideas that find their realisation in performances, films and installations. His recent works are This performance (Gasthuis, 2004), Fade out (Gasthuis, 2005) and Sacre (Springdance, 2006), David is co-founder of LISA, a collective of makers in Amsterdam. www.associationlisa.com
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