Elephant & You Should Have Seen Me Dancing Waltz
Rabih Mroué & Dance On Ensemble
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Onassis Stegi Friends & General Presale: from 14 ΟCT 2019, 17:00
Full price: 7, 10, 15, 18 €
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What does a war leave in its wake? Rabih Mroué —political, harsh, poetic— returns to the Onassis Stegi with two choreographies that treat a trauma shared by all humanity.
One of the most important artists on the world stage, the deeply political visual artist, director, and performer Rabih Mroué creates work for DANCE ON ENSEMBLE, with one of the evening’s two pieces making its world premier at the Onassis Stegi.
“Elephant” oscillates between a sense of isolation and a yearning for human connection. Bodies move in labyrinth patterns, trying to reach each other in vain. Jumping backwards and forwards in time, they find themselves searching for moments of togetherness while at the same time experiencing the inevitability of loneliness.
His new work “You Should Have Seen Me Dancing Waltz” confronts the dancers with the news of our daily violence, natural disasters and politics. How do current events affect – and infect – the dancers’ bodies? What is their impact on a physical level? Do they change how we move? These questions will be negotiated in very personal ways, dealing with the impact of words describing their movements.
Photo: Jubal Battisti
Like a magnifying glass, the work of Rabih Mroué reminds us that trauma is universal
We first met Rabih Mroué at the Onassis Stegi’s Fast Forward Festival 1 in 2014 with the lecture-performance “Pixelated Revolution” and the performance “Riding on the cloud”, two sui generis pieces about the explosive situation in the Middle East. We saw him again at the Stegi’s Fast Forward Festival 5 with the gripping lecture-performance “So little time”.
“You should have seen me dancing waltz” is a co-production of the Onassis Stegi.
Saturday 9 November
After performance talk
Moderated by Katia Arfara, Theater & Dance Artistic Director of Onassis Stegi 2019-20 and Assistant Professor of Theater, Performance Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi
Elephant
Concept & Direction
Rabih Mroué
In collaboration with
Ty Boomershine and Jone San Martin
Cast
Ty Boomershine, Jone San Martin, Marco Volta
Lighting Design
Patrick Lauckner, Tanja Rühl
Sound and Composition
Mattef Kuhlmey
Costume
Sophia Piepenbrock-Saitz
Assistant to the Director
Jacqueline Azarmi
Production
DANCE ON/DIEHL+RITTER
Coproduction
HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
Produced for the DANCE ON Festival
with support from Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Co-funded by
the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON
Premiere
28 February 2018, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
You should have seen me dancing waltz
Concept & Direction
Rabih Mroué
In Collaboration with
the Dance On Ensemble
Cast
Anna Herrmann, Emma Lewis, Christine Kono, Marco Volta
Text
Rabih Mroué in collaboration with Ty Boomershine
Voice
Ty Boomershine
Lighting Design
Arno Truschinski
Sound
Mattef Kuhlmey
Costumes
Sophia Piepenbrock-Saitz
Assistant to the Director
Clarissa Omiecienski
Production
DANCE ON/DIEHL+RITTER
Coproduction
Onassis Stegi (Athens), Kampnagel (Hamburg)
Supported by the
NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Premiere
8 November 2019, Onassis Stegi
DANCE ON is an initiative by DIEHL+RITTER gUG funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
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