Max always wants to kiss! Day in, day out, he is on the lookout. The lively butterfly doesn’t like it at all. Neither does the giant elephant and the crocodile looks puzzled at the sight of Max’s pointed lips. Because Max is a gorilla! He doesn’t understand at all why the animals of the jungle don’t love kissing as much as he does. For him, kissing is a real joy! But then suddenly a voice asks the only right question – and Max realises that everything beautiful between two beings becomes even more beautiful when both want it from the heart …
Barbara Fuchs’ choreography plays with the naivety and sensitivity of the two main characters and makes rapprochement a major theme.

TEAM

Director/Choreography. Barbara Fuchs
Performance: Arthur Schopa, Emily Welther
Set design: Sabine Kreiter
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Dramaturgy: Maren van Severen

Photo: MEYER ORIGINALS

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I think I’m being smooched by a monkey

[…] There is loud laughter, commentary and giggles […]. The adult companions, […] however, were no less amused. (Christian Bos, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 2016)

I push you – BOING! – and what do you do? You might just be able to keep your balance. Or you simply fall over. Or you bump into the next person with your body – BOING again!!! Three experimental actors discover the connection between cause and effect in a production about bumping into things, falling over and getting back up again. The premiere of “BOING!” took place on 30 January 2016 at the tjg theatre Dresden.

Since 2003, choreographer Barbara Fuchs has been developing productions at the interface between dance, acoustics and visual arts under the label “tanzfuchs PRODUKTION”. In addition to solo choreographies and collaborations with other artists, theatre for the very young has been the third focus of her work since 2009.

TEAM 

Artistic Director: Barbara Fuchs
Direction and Choreography: Barbara Fuchs
Performance: Moritz Stephan, Julian Trostorf, Gregor Wolf
Stage: Grit Dora von Zeschau
Costumes: Grit Dora von Zeschau
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Photo: Klaus Gigga

A production by:

tjg. theatre young generation
Artistic Director Felicitas Loewe
Institution of the State Capital Dresden, Meißner Landstraße 4, 01157 Dresden

Standing in the corner shivering, heat that knocks you over, a bright red head with blue lips, chattering your teeth from the cold or melting away in the shade: Temperatures have an immediate effect on the body and change movements. And there are parallels between temperature and temperament: excited, fast, warm, calm, dark, cold, fleeting and mild. Two performers give themselves over to the elemental phenomena of the ups and downs of temperatures. They run hot and keep a cool head. FrierSchlotterSchwitz will be a test for the ensemble of the JUNGEN STAATSTHEATER. For the first time, the actors will have to rely entirely on their bodies and explore dance as a means of expression. The premiere of “FRIERSCHLOTTERSCHWITZ” took place in 2013 at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

TEAM

Choreography/ Stage/ Costumes: Barbara Fuchs
Schuaspiel/ Dance: Sebastian Reich, Ralf Wegner
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Dramaturgy: Ulrike Stöck

Press quotes:

[…] This is a lot of fun, because getting dressed and undressed is an important topic for small children. Usually it is no fun for them, but as cheerfully and agilely as it is presented here, that can change. The children cheer when the two big stage boys push each other wantonly, jump on each other’s backs, make wide movements or curl up together. In between, they bounce satirising each other and sing hilarious rhymes. […] (Die Rheinpfalz, 25.10.2017)

 

Each day consists of an unending chain of great adventures – even odds and end like a branch on the way can be a discovery, a beetle even a sensation. The two performer invites their audience to share this exciting way. Getting out of bed. Quickly to the bathroom. Shirt on, pants, done. And now they want to get out, get out of the house. Now, discover the world. First of all carefully, because no one knows what will happen. Maybe there is a cow? Or another animal? A pig, big or small? Or even a mouse hiding there behind the house?

Ingeborg von Zadow wrote a piece for the very smallest, full of puns and funny rhymes and surprising discoveries.

The premiere of “Out of the house” took place on 14. April 2012 in COMEDIA Theatre Cologne.

TEAM

Directed by Barbara Fuchs
Dance/Act: Svenja Niekerken, Laura Virgillito
Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Stage & Costume Design: Barbara Fuchs
Author: Ingeborg von Zadow

Photo: MEYER ORIGINALS

A Production of Comedia Theater Köln in Coproduktion with tanzfuchs PRODUKTION/Barbara Fuchs
Founded by: Land NRW im Rahmen von Workspace

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Pure Pleasure

Ingeborg von Zadows new piece „Out of the house!”, choreographed by Barbara Fuchs and her ensemble shows how cross over dance-theater for children aged 2+ can work – with easiness and enthusiasm

“… That´s really funny and sometimes impressive acrobatic. Both performers reflect the feeling cosmos of two year old children: insecurity and courage, foolishness and cowardice, always aided by the sounds and music of Jörg Ritzenhoff. Definitly a piece for the small audience but also for their grown up companions….” (CHRISTINA GATH, aKT-cologne theatremagazin/May2012)

“…Actually a play with a text, which sounds almost like a song, Barbara Fuchs creates with the music by Jörg Ritzenhoff a own (movement) world. “Can you dance while you are sleeping? Yes, that’s possible, because sleep has no to be a hidden matter. In the Comedia the both actors Inne Svenja Niekerken and Laura Virgillito sleep at least on 46 mattresses and sometimes they rest even as bread slices on each tower high….” (Thomas Linden, Choices-culture in nrw-April2012)

 

Once in the sky and back… pushing off from the ground, jumping into the blue of the sky and landing gently on earth again… that’s what the three actors in the new play for the very young dream of. But they don’t stop at dreaming and think: Who could do such a thing? A ball that bounces on the ground and flies upwards, a human being that pushes off the ground and leaps into the air, the human voice that can bounce up and down in motion, a drumstick that bounces on the head of a drum. Barbara Fuchs, Karolina Rüegg and Tobias Liebezeit jump, fall, sing, make music, roll and play for children up to the age of two and their parents. In their concept, which is oriented towards the perception of the age group, form and colour become sound, sound becomes movement, physicality combines with sound and movement rhythm with musical rhythm.
With great joy in experimentation, the three artists explore “Skyblue” in all its facets, sometimes as a duo, sometimes as a soloist or as a trio: What does sky blue sound like? What is a round sound and what is a round movement? At the end of the imaginative play, the boundary to the stage falls and the little audience members are allowed to indulge their own urge to explore. A ball is not only a beautiful toy for adults, it is also a musical instrument and a connection to the sky.
The premiere of “Skyblue” took place on 12 November 2009 at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf.

TEAM

Dance/Stage: Barbara Fuchs
Vocals: Karolina Rüegg
Percussion: Tobias Liebezeit