Choreography and Direction: Deborah Hay
With artistic support from Jeanine Durning and Ros Warby
In collaboration with Ty Boomershine, Amancio Gonzalez, Brit Rodemund, Christopher Roman and Jone San Martin
Artistic Direction DANCE ON ENSEMBLE: Christopher Roman
Lighting Design: Tanja Rühl
Sound Design: Mattef Kuhlmey
Costume Design: Judith Adam
Technical Production Management DANCE ON: Benjamin Schälike
Assistant to the choreoographer: Katharina Rost
Cast: Ty Boomershine, Amancio Gonzalez, Brit Rodemund, Christopher Roman, Jone San Martin
Co-production: tanzhaus nrw, ADC-Association Danse Contemporaine Genève
Supported by the NPN Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision made by the German Bundestag.
Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON
Fri 24.03. 20:00 + Sat 25.03. 20:00 + Sun 26.03. 20:00
Duration: 60 min. / Sat 19:00 Physical Introduction / Sat public talk afterwards / Sun 18:30 Film „The Body as Archive“ by Michael Maurissens
Debora Hay remains among the most radical and influential postmodern artists, and she is also one of the founding members of the Judson Dance Theater that first came up in the 1960s. To this day, the artist, born in 1941, influences the development of the international dance and performance scene. In her works, she does not only question dance and choreography practice, she also focusses on a differentiated perception of one’s own body and the reflection of learned patterns of perceptions, from both dancers as well as from the audience. “Tenacity of Space”, too, was created from the basic idea of “enlarging your perspective”, according to Deborah Hay: “In my work with DANCE ON, I developed a choreography for an ensemble in which the artistic focus shifts towards more and more subtle forms of awareness, unconventional approach and revelation.”