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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
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
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
QUERFELDEIN FamilyFestival
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
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 €
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.
I am a tree | Eliisa Erävalo (Sweden/Finland)
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