Sep 12Sep 15, 2024
SAŠA ASENTIĆ & COLLABORATORS
DIS DIS CONTACT • Premiere
A NEW APPROACH TO A FAMOUS WORK BY PINA BAUSCH, GOING STRAIGHT TO THE HEART.
Since 2017, Saša Asentić and the group Per.Art have been addressing and reinterpreting iconic choreographic works, adopting their own perspective as artists living with disability. Kontakthof by Pina Bausch, first performed in 1978, provides an inexhaustible subject to explore, and has now become the focus for this new work. But the audience should not expect a reconstruction, as with rearrangements for versions produced with senior citizens and teenagers. As persons invariably relegated to the fringe of mainstream society, the performers investigate Pina Bausch’s work and the reasons for it being so important. Who else could have a better understanding of situations of loneliness, rejection and distress as evoked with great subtlety in Kontakthof? Their apparent fragility brings inherent grace and light, illuminated by their boundless humanity.
Original idea and artistic direction Saša Asentić
Choreography, artistic collaboration & performance Natalija Vladisavljević, Jelena Stefanoska, Snežana Bulatović, Dalibor Šandor, Marko Bašica, Frosina Dimovska, Alexandre Achour, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Saša Asentić
Collaboration for costumes Julia von Leliwa, Marina Sremac
Lighting Anja Sekulić
Production Saša Asentić Coproduction Olympiade culturelle, Theatre de la Ville.
“Dis Dis Contact” is the subject of a research project entitled “Aesthetics of Access and Politics of Memory” at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo.
Some elements of this show are taken from “Dis_Sylphide” (2019) and from “Dis Contact” (2023) co-produced with Kampnagel Hamburg – HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts-Dresden – Künstlerhaus Mousonturm-Frankfurt – SOPHIENSÆLE-Berlin – Théâtre de la Ville-Paris. Financed by le Département Culture et Europe du Sénat de Berlin. With support from NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK. With help of Fund for Dance, financed by le Délégué du Gouvernement fédéral à la Culture et aux Médias.
Thu 12 Sep 2024
7:00 PM
From €8 to €23
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