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PIECE OF PAPER

ENGLISH, PRODUCTIONS, QUERFELDEIN, TANZFUCHS ON TOUR

It crackles and rustles, folds, crumples and tears, it is flexible, malleable and can also cut. There are many colours, sizes and thicknesses. Usually they write and print on it, and they also like to paint or do handicrafts: Paper. Cologne based choreographer Barbara Fuchs ventures into the paper jungle with dancer Sonia Mota and composer Jörg Ritzenhoff. With the help of paper, they make changes, external influences and temporal processes visible: paper “remembers” every wrinkle, every tear and every cut. And just as traces and external influences inscribe themselves in paper, experiences and impressions are inscribed in our bodies – through scars, quirks, wrinkles. Hardly anyone can embody this reminiscent body better than Sonia Mota, who turns 70 this year; she is an “archivist” of movements and dance. Together with the musician Jörg Ritzenhoff they roam the paper jungle and tell their experiences and stories with live sound and movements.

The premiere of PIECE OF PAPER took place on 27 September 2018 at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf.

TEAM

Artistic director: Barbara Fuchs
Dance: Sonia Mota
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Stage: Odile Foehl
Light: Wolfgang Pütz
Dramaturgy: Henrike Kollmar
Assistance: Emily Welther
PR: Kerstin Rosemann
Photography: cMEYER_ORIGINALS

PIECE OF PAPER is co-produced by tanzhaus nrw as part of Take-off, the Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, the Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes NRW. tanzfuchs PRODUKTION is supported by the RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur.

Piece of Paper, Papierstück (AT) – Solo für die Tänzerin Sonia Mota | tanzfuchs PRODUKTION |

Press quotes

O-Ton | Kulturmagazin mit Charakter

by Michael S. Zerban

The deeper meaning of the paper

[…] And the fact that you can create interesting music with paper and cardboard also causes a lot of amazement. On the other hand, the Magic Flute for children is really old hat. […] An all-round beautiful afternoon for the children comes to an end – and one wishes that many more children would enjoy such an imaginative, varied and original performance. […]

Tanzende Säcke (choices.de) / Laudatio for the Cologne Children’s and Youth Theatre Prize

by Thomas Linden

[…] In hardly any other production this year was there so much laughter as in the wordless “PIECE OF PAPER”. The poetry of the material lies in its analogy to skin, which also casts wrinkles and on which time and memory also inscribe themselves. […]

Stadtrevue

by Melanie Suchy

New in the theater – PIECE OF PAPER

[…] The paper is paired with music, all the rustling, tearing, crackling, splashing becomes rhythm. A great game! […]

Laudation of the WESTWIND jury

[…] Barbara Fuchs has choreographed a scenic concert with the “PIECE OF PAPER” and the performance has an unbelievably affectionate atmosphere, turned towards the audience. It works for the youngest and for any other age as well. Here the pure play, shimmering creativity, cheerfulness, nonsense, freedom reigns. Highest art! […]

QUERFELDEIN FamilyFestival

ENGLISH, QUERFELDEIN

We cordially invite you to celebrate the first edition of the FamilyFestival at ehrenfeldstudios with us! Together with you – from big to small and young to old – we would like to experience a whole weekend of dance: With performances of the tanzfuchs production MUNCH! and a guest performance from Sweden by Eliisa Erävalo I am a tree, with our GrowthLab, punch and waffles. We will also present our new TANZ@HOME videos.

On December 10 and 11, the FamilyFest will take place as part of our QUERFELDEIN series, with which tanzfuchs PRODUKTION regularly presents performances for children and young people in the ehrenfeldstudios. tanzfuchs PRODUKTION creates performances for young audiences in Cologne and can also be seen in other cities in NRW and throughout Germany.

Schedule

Saturday 10.12.2022

13.00-17.00 h: GrowthLab

14.00 h: I am a tree  | A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three  

15.00 h: TANZ@HOME| Dance and movement to join in for the whole family with Ronja Nadler   

16.30 h: MUNCH!  | A dance and sound performance for all ages

Sunday 11.12.2022 

11.00 h: I am a tree  | A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three  

12.00 h: TANZ@HOME | Dance and movement to join in for the whole family with Ronja Nadler 

13.00-17.00 h: GrowthLab

15.00 h: MUNCH!  | A dance and sound performance for all ages  

16.00 h: I am a tree  | A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three

VIEW FLYER

tanzfuchs PRODUKTION

MUNCH!

A dance and sound performance for all ages

10 December 2022 I 16.30 h
11 December 2022 I 14 h

Dancing plates, a hiccup that moves to the foot, chatty dishes, a delicate egg dance. In the “eating concert” MUNCH!, together with the audience, we swallow, smell, enjoy, consume, nibble, listen and digest. An experimental and respectful approach to food and drink becomes a sensory experience of a special kind.

Artistic direction, Choreography + Concept Barbara Fuchs Dance, Choreography Emily Welther & Odile Foehl Sound + Music Jörg Ritzenhoff Costumes Sabine Kreiter

Eliisa Erävalo (Schweden/Finnland)

I am a tree

A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three

10 December 2022 I 14 h
11 December 2022 I 11 h+ 16 h

What makes us humans different from the trees in a forest? Can trees hear us? Do trees have feelings? “I am a tree” is an artificial experience of nature in which children become co-creators. The performance invites them to think together about nature and its functions. How do we live in nature, how do we imitate processes from nature? What would it be like to be a tree, an ocean or an insect? And what is it actually like to be a plastic flower?

Concept, Direction + Choreography Tatu Hämäläinen & Eliisa Erävalo Performance Eliisa Erävalo Visual design Chrisander Brun Music + Sound Pekka Tuppurainen  Dramaturgy Tora von Platen Production Kaveri Collective Original production Uusi Teatteri Producer Minttu Jäävuori

Even more to discover: 

In our GrowthLab you can make your own plants grow and create SeedBalls for the coming spring.

With our moderated TANZ@HOME tutorials, we want to dance with you and introduce you to our latest videos to get active yourself. You can also find them on our website and dance at home.

For your physical well-being we will provide punch and waffles.

TICKETS/FEES 

Single: 8 € / Performance

Small family 3 Persons: 22 €

Large family 5 Persons: 36 € 

karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de 

WHERE ? 

ehrenfeldstudios e.V.
Wissmannstraße 38
50823 Cologne
Tel: 0221 – 44907514 

FUNDING

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
TANZ@HOME is supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Aid Program Dance.

Pffhhh… – A rubber dance play

ENGLISH, PRODUCTIONS, QUERFELDEIN

Bicycle tube snails, tyre-furniture, air pump-kisses and in the midst of all is a dancer who moves as if made of rubber. Seemingly boneless and rather flexible the rubber girl moves through her own world. Here everything can be twisted, squashed, blown up and formed. Everything squeals, gnarls and pipes. Pffhhh… The choreographer and dancer Barbara Fuchs likes to twist the common view on objects and their material qualities. Leaning on anarchy, with affection for the absurd and for humour she engages in her artistic composition. Together with composer Jörg Ritzenhoff she developed Pffhhh…, a solo where not only rubber in various manifestations but also dancer Odile Foehl are tested for their elastic potential. The tanzfuchs team breathes a new life to bicycle tubes and rubber tyres, creates new spaces for experience beyond the known and changes things to companions of the dancer. Everything is object to change, yet never for long.

Pffhhh… is part of the performance project RESPACE on the relations between space, memory, sound and performance by the label tanzfuchs PRODUKTION, headed by Barbara Fuchs.

The premiere of Pfffhh… took place on 30 June 2016 at tanzhaus nrw in Dusseldorf.

DATES

24 & 25 November 2022 | 10 am
26 & 27 November 2022 | 4 pm

TEAM

Artistic direction: Barbara Fuchs
Dance: Odile Foehl
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Choreographic assistence: Emily Welther
Stage: Barbara Fuchs
PR: Kerstin Rosemann

Photography: cMEYER_ORIGINALS

A tanzfuchs PRODUKTION, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw as part of Take-off: Junger Tanz, supported by Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf and Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW. Also co-produced by BARNES CROSSING Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst. The production is further supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW and NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Supported also by the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. tanzfuchs PRODUKTION is endorsed by RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur.

Press quotes

Neue Westfälische, Paderborn 23.11.2017

Queen of the rubber world

“She wakes up in a bed of rubber, starts a poetic performance with rubber tires and bicycle tubes and becomes, among other things, the queen of this freely designable space. In the studio of the theatre it squeaks and whistles, and by means of a loop machine the rubber girl creates the appropriate sound cosmos, which gets along without words.

Westdeutsche Zeitung, Krefeld 21.11.2016

Rubber woman inspires the spectators in the Heeder

[…] The wirily flexible dancer Odile Foehl stretches and stretches, bounces on the floor like a rubber ball and in the next position bends her limbs as if they were also made of rubber. At first, the kids on the benches are breathless excitement, incredulous amazement and then loud laughter.

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Book tickets at ehrenfeldstudios e.V.

Schlalalalaufen

GUEST DIRECTIONS, QUERFELDEIN, TANZFUCHS ON TOUR

Street cradle cat’s eye, run sneak loop: Here everything runs on a string, a dancer and a dancer, up and down, criss-cross. They stretch strings, wind and tangle themselves and others, spin patterns and paths and lead the spectators through ever-changing landscapes.

The thread games known in many cultures are the basis of inspiration for this mobile dance piece. From the hands they are transferred to other parts of the body and the audience is also included to play the whole space. Patterns are given and received, something falls, something works, everything transforms and everyone is connected to everyone else.

It is a fun, collaborative piece that encourages complex movement and collective thinking.

TRAILER

DATES

21.5.22 I 4 pm
23. & 24.5.22 I 10 am
at the ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

TEAM

Dancers: Minju Kim and Moonjoo Kim

Regie / Choreographie: Barbara Fuchs

Music / Composition: Jörg Ritzenhoff

Singing: Antonia Ritzenhoff

Equipment: Barbara Fuchs

Dramaturgy: Andrea Kramer

A production of Consol Theatre Gelsenkirchen

Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

← HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Pffhhh… - A rubber dance play →

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

ENGLISH, QUERFELDEIN

Guestperformance series DIVERSITY
On the topic of inclusion & participation

by Silke Z. & die metabolisten in cooperation with QUERFELDEIN

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY | CiM – Companhia de Dança
An inclusive dance piece for everybody from age 8

Human Geography investigates the relationship between people and their environment in different places. In the choreography HUMAN GEOGRAPHY by Ana Rita Barata, the performers enter a space together – their bodies become points of reference for each other as well as for the things and movements in this space. They create a living, constantly changing map of different surfaces, landscapes and territories. How do the bodies and things relate to each other in space? How do they change common territories? HUMAN GEOGRAPHY is the surveying of a space with different bodies that inscribe their traces in the memory of this place.

CiM – dance Company promotes a pioneering approach to artistic creation in the spirit of inclusion through dance and image. The company develops regular training and awareness that focuses on the movement specificities and unique expressiveness of each dancer/performer and promotes a vision of the idea of capacity and boundaries through choreography that reveals diversity as a driving force.

WITH US – Episode 1: Karel (65) meets David (25)
Silke Z. & die metabolisten

Before the performances, Silke Z. & die metabolisten develop an intergenerational dance perspective on the guest performance Human Geography: In Episode 1, Karel (65) and David (25) meet.

Workshop DANCE FOR ALL

9 & 10 June 2022 | Workshop CiM “Dance for All”: for students after the performance
11 June 2022 | 12 am – 2 pm Workshop CiM “Dance for All” (all levels, mixed-abled)

Registration is requested at vermittlung@resistdance.de

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY is the first guest performance in the Diversity series on the theme of inclusion & participation.
In the next two years, the guest performance series curated by Silke Z. in cooperation with Querfeldein will present national and international dance productions that deal with the themes of inclusion & participation, gender & sexuality, privilege, appreciation & racism, age, everyday life & visibility. In this format, topics of the diversity discourse are explicitly anchored in the repertoire in order to make their visibility sustainably effective.

DATES

Thursday 9 June 2022 I 10 am
Friday 10 June 2022 I 10 am
Saturday 11 June 2022 I 4 pm
Sunday 12 June 2022 I 4 pm

9 & 10 June 2022 | Workshop CiM “Dance for All”: for students after the performance
11 June 2022 | 12 am – 2 pm free Workshop CiM “Dance for All” (all levels, mixed-abled)

Registration is requested at vermittlung@resistdance.de

Tickets: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Children: 6 euros, adults: 10 euros

TEAM

Artistic director: Silke Z.
Management: Caroline Simon, Hanna Held
Administration: Carina Graf
Organisation: Anna Boldt
Press and public relations: Kerstin Rosemann

The guest performance “HUMAN GEOGRAPHY” of the series DIVERSITY cooperates with the programme series Querfeldein, which is financed, among others, by the funding for top-level productions (Spitzenförderung) of tanzfuchs PRODUKTION.

SUPPORTERS

Tickets reservieren in den ehrenfeldstudios e.V.

Karla, Ändi, Arthur

ENGLISH, PRODUCTIONS, QUERFELDEIN, TANZFUCHS ON TOUR

Barking and singing, fur-covered stones and furry flowers, here a breeze blows, a smell comes from there – in Karla’s, Ändi’s and Arthur’s world there is much to see, hear and feel – each of the three does this in his/her own way: Karla sees with her knee, Ändi preferably with her nose. Arthur prefers to look good. Besides, Karla is older than Ändi and Arthur, Ändi has four legs instead of two, and Arthur is the only one with dark hair. On the other hand, Ändi can drum with his tail, Karla knows how to dress, and Arthur knows how to move. In this world dogs and humans are equal: no matter wether they are quadrupeds or bipeds, old or young, fury or not – cuddling, kissing, chatting, rubbing, dancing or looking at the stars is most beautiful in a when done with the three of them.

Choreographer Barbara Fuchs, composer Jörg Ritzenhoff and the dancer Arthur Schopa have let Karla Faßbender and her guide dog Ändi show them a new world. It is not the world as we know it through which Ändi leads Karla, but a realm in which all of the senses are equal. Follow, Karla, Ändi and Arthur into this unique world.

Dates

Sun. 2 October 2022 | 3 pm
Mon. 3 October 2022 | 10.30 am

Past dates:

1st October 2021 I PREMIERE | ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

29 & 30 January 2022 I 4pm
31 January & 1st February 2022 I 10am
ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

For people with visual impairments, we offer a touch tour on stage half an hour before the performance. Please register for this with us in advance.

Team

Idea, artistic direction: Barbara Fuchs
Music and lyrics: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Performance: Karla Faßbender, Ändi, Arthur Schopa
Choreography Arthur Schopa & Barbara Fuchs
Narrator Gisela Nohl
Stage Odile Foehl
Costume design: Stefanie Bold
Lighting: Wolfgang Pütz
Mediation and dramaturgy Vivica Bocks
Production management: Carina Graf
Press relations: Kerstin Rosemann
Photos: Sabine Grosse-Wortmann

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Beauftragten
of the Federal Government for Culture and Media and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur.
Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw and Feldtheater Berlin.

Ändi

by Jörg Ritzenhoff | Ändi

Allein, zu zweit, zu dritt

by Jörg Ritzenhoff | Allein, zu zweit, zu dritt

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