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The Four Seasons
Spring, summer, autumn, winter – gentle birdsong, summer thunderstorms, rustling coloured leaves, clashing frost. Playful and dreamy, the well-known music by Antonio Vivaldi is reinterpreted for children by choreographer Barbara Fuchs together with the Braunschweig State Orchestra. The cycle of life, of nature, which looks and feels different in different parts of the world – sometimes winter is cold, elsewhere it is warm – was captured with all its wonders and mysteries in Vivaldi’s music over 300 years ago. Just like nature and the environment, human life is shaped by rhythms and cycles, which are explored in this dance piece through Barbara Fuchs’ creative language of movement.
Premiere 6 October 2023, Staatstheater Braunschweig
https://staatstheater-braunschweig.de/produktion/die-vier-jahreszeiten
Musical director Felix Gutgesell // Choreography Barbara Fuchs // Stage and costumes Nele Ellegiers // Lighting Harry Heutink // Dramaturgy Miriam Beike //
With Mya Claire Flieger, Angelina Pico, Moonjoo Kim
DOOHICKEY
They shine, rattle, are cold, they don’t even move – and yet these things exude a great fascination. Everyday kitchen helpers are often just as exciting for children to discover as their colourful toys. What could it look like if this world of things came to life, danced and sounded? In „DOOHICKEY („DINGSBUMS“)“, tanzfuchs PRODUKTION turns its attention to the metal everyday helpers in the kitchen and transforms them into a clattering orchestra: it rattles and sounds, clatters and jumps, gyrates and dances. Familiar objects suddenly develop a life of their own, become fellow dancers, mirror images. The three performers explore, feel and experience this world of things – and connect with them: they become extensions of their bodies, disappear under their clothes. Things, people and movements magically merge with each other, giving rise to entirely new hybrid beings.
Team
Idea, artistic direction Barbara Fuchs // Music Jörg Ritzenhoff // Performance Minju Kim, Arthur Schopa, Michael Zier // Stage Design Odile Foehl // Costume Stefanie Bold // Lighting Wolfgang Pütz // Maschine construction Marc Brodeur // NRW scholarship children & youth theater Isabel Bernhard // Dramaturgy Vivica Bocks // Production Carina Graf // Production assistance Paula Cuellar // Press Kerstin Rosemann // Photo Anna Rehkämper Photography // Graphics: Caroline Simon
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur.
Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
FamilyFestival
We cordially invite you to the second edition of our FamilyFestival. Together with you – from big to small – we want to experience a whole weekend of dance. On stage, everything revolves around us and nature: the dance and song play “GREEN” is dedicated to people and plants, and the musical dance poetry “Out/foxed” is dedicated to people and foxes. All around you can go on your own search for traces: There will be workshops, waffles and warm punch.
Tickets:
Online via rausgegangen.de
By mail to karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Children 6 € / performance
Adults 10 € / performance
For groups of 5 or more we charge: Adults 9 € and children 5 €
Here’s a little look back at last year:
Programme
Saturday 02.12.2023
2 – 5 pm:
Track Lab: Track reading and listening for children
2 pm:
Educational programme on GREEN: Seedlings – dance and movement to join in for everyone aged 3 and up
3 pm:
Contemporary dance workshop:
On quiet and loud paws – ages 6 and up
4 pm:
Out/foxed – About the fox-human-being
A musical dance poetry for humans and foxes from 6 to 99 years old
Droste, Frenkel, Leuthäuser, Turbahn
Out/foxed Trailer
Sunday 03.12.2023
11 am:
Out/foxed – About the fox-human-being
A musical dance poetry for humans and foxes from 6 to 99 years old
Droste, Frenkel, Leuthäuser, Turbahn
Out/foxed Trailer
12 – 5 pm:
Track Lab: Track reading and listening for children
1 pm:
Contemporary dance workshop:
On quiet and loud paws – ages 6 and up
2 pm:
Educational programme on GREEN: Seedlings – dance and movement to join in for everyone aged 3 and up
4 pm:
GREEN
A floral dance and song play from 3 to 99 years old
tanzfuchs PRODUKTION
GREEN Trailer
Out/foxed – About the fox-human-being
A musical dance poetry for humans and foxes from 6 to 99 years old
2 December 2023 I 4 pm
3 December 2023 I 11 am
Three performers are on the trail of foxes, because they are the success model of the future. They are looking for them and want to become like them. What makes foxes so cunning? So attractive and also mysterious? Can we humans become like them? Can we learn to listen better to urban foxes?
Direction + dramaturgy Gabi dan Droste Performance Ziv Frenkel, Erik Leuthäuser, Julia Keren Turbahn Choreography Ziv Frenkel, Julia Keren Turbahn Composition Erik Leuthäuser Co-costume Marie Gerstenberger Space + Co-costume Nina Krainer Lighting design Vito Walter Assistance Luzy Thüs Production Miriam Glöckler Experts Sophia Kimmig, Michael Schiefel Theatre pedagogical poster Charlotte Bartesch
The development of the piece is based on the research project Stadtfüchse – eine Spurensuche funded by NPN Stepping Out.
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GREEN
A floral dance and song play from 3 to 99 years old
3 December 2023 I 4 pm
What do humans and plants have in common? At first glance we are very different, but if we look more closely, we have a lot in common: we grow, need the sun and are thirsty. Plants and humans both need to breathe. What does the breath of a plant feel and sound like? What is the rhythm of their movements? What does it sound like when plants touch each other? Do they talk to each other? The performers immerse themselves in the cosmos of plants and explore the way they move and unfold as they grow. Composer Jörg Ritzenhoff takes us into the sound world of plants and makes us experience the sounds of their growth.
By + with Arthur Schopa, Miriam Meissner, Odile Foehl Idea + direction Barbara Fuchs Music Jörg Ritzenhoff Lighting design Wolfgang Pütz Stage Inga Sondermann Costume design Stefanie Bold Dramaturgy Vivica Bocks Choreography assistance Maria Plener Production management Anna Boldt Administration Carina Graf, Selina Ehlen Press work Kerstin Rosemann Graphics Beate Freudig Photo documentation Stefan Rogge Video documentation Barbara Schröer
Where ?
ehrenfeldstudios e.V.
Wissmannstraße 38
50823 Köln
Tel: 0221 – 44907514
FamilyFestival idea and realization:
Vivica Bocks, Anna Boldt, Selina Ehlen, Odile Foehl, Barbara Fuchs, Beate Freudig, Carina Graf, Wolfgang Pütz, Jörg Ritzenhoff, Kerstin Rosemann, Arthur Schopa, Barbara Schröer, Gerd Weidig, Emily Welther.
GREEN
What do humans and plants have in common? At first glance we are very different, but if we look more closely, we have a lot in common: we grow, need the sun and are thirsty. Plants and humans both need to breathe. What does the breath of a plant feel and sound like? What is the rhythm of their movements? What does it sound like when plants touch each other? Do they talk to each other? The performers immerse themselves in the cosmos of plants and explore the way they move and unfold as they grow. Composer Jörg Ritzenhoff takes us into the sound world of plants and makes us experience the sounds of their growth.
“GREEN” is the first part of the series SPIELRÄUME, which deals with the interweavings of HUMAN-NATURE-ANIMAL-CITY-RURAL AREAS. The focus is on flora and its interrelations with humans. How do we perceive the green world of plants? Where else is “green” to be found? And how intertwined are we in this green world? All these questions resonate when the three performers explore the plant world before the eyes of the audience. Finally, “GREEN” will also be produced green and is dedicated to the topic of sustainability in the work process.
Tickets: karten@ehrenfeldstudios.de
Adults 10 € | Kids 6 €
Requests for day-care groups: vermittlung@tanzfuchs.com
By and with Arthur Schopa, Miriam Meissner, Odile Foehl // Idea and direction Barbara Fuchs // Music Jörg Ritzenhoff // Lighting Wolfgang Pütz // Stage Inga Sondermann // Costume Stefanie Bold // Dramaturgy Vivica Bocks // Choreography assistance Maria Plener // Production management Anna Boldt // Administration Carina Graf, Selina Ehlen // Press work Kerstin Rosemann // Graphics Beate Freudig // Photo documentation Stefan Rogge // Video documentation Barbara Schröer
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS
tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf & consol theatre Gelsenkirchen
MEDIA PARTNER
FUNDING
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Psssst!
Pssssssssssssst! Quietly … is there a sound? Is there any noise? Silence. On silent soles, two eavesdropping experts take us on an exciting journey of discovery. They investigate and explore whether we can also see sounds. What might a sound look like? What does water sound like and what color is a song? Can you dance with fish and jump with snow? In this humorous experimental arrangement between nature, technology, music and dance theater, the youngest audience members and their adult companions become scientists in the realm of sounds: Be all ears!
Director Barbara Fuchs / tanzfuchs PRODUCTION Stage & Music Jörg Ritzenhoff Costumes Barbara Fuchs Dramaturgy Meike Sasse With Sarah Siri Lee König, Jonas Pätzold
https://www.theaterkonstanz.de/psssst
