tellmesthnew!
tell.me.sth.new! explores the transformative power of cutting. The interdisciplinary dance performance is inspired by the autobiographical stories of four people who responded to a call for information on the topic of identity change and clothing. Together, the team creates a fictitious experiential space that examines the relationship between identity, transformation and clothing in terms of a social skin. tell.me.sth.new! understands life stories as fluid entities that we constantly retell to ourselves and others.
About the production
In tell.me.sth.new, Julia Klockow stages performative hybrid creatures from the life paths of the storytellers, her own biography and cultural information. Through the interplay of different intensities of figurative representation and performative moments, she reveals that the real is always present in the theatre space and the fictional is also always present in the real. In a dance-like, dissecting process, tell.me.sth.new! tells of the energy-sapping, birthing and liberating processes of transformation and identity formation that seem to be a never-ending process in the modern world. The dance moves between the concrete act of cutting and abstraction.
Her choreographic practice meets the artistic handwriting of the Italian percussionist Maria Luisa Pizzighella and the Congolese figure designer Claude Bwendua. The energy
Further performances on 12 + 13 October 2024
E-WERK Freiburg, Chamber Theatre
Residency showing on 29 June at ROXY Birsfelden as part of "Labor à trois" in Basel.
Credits:
Storytellers: Special thanks to the storytellers Balduin Bollin, Claude Bwendua, Daniela Maria Eneh and Juls Gassert, who were so open to sharing their stories with us and made it possible for us to experience that, despite very different life paths, we can find ourselves in everyone.
Artistic direction: Julia Klockow
Performers: Julia Klockow (dance), Maria Luisa Pizzighella (live music percussion) and Claude Bwendua (puppetry)
Music/composition: Maria Luisa Pizzighella
Figure design: Claude Shugani Bwendua
Costume: Julia Klockow
Costume consultation: Lydia Sonderegger
Dramaturgical advice: Leon Wierer
Artistic advice on dance: Zina Vaessen
Production consulting: Linda Pilar Brodhag
Lighting: Ingo Keil
Sound technology: Hannes Kieselbach
tellmesthnew! is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau.
Co-operation partners: E-WERK Freiburg & "Labor à trois" residency in the border triangle (CH/F/D) of Tanznetz Freiburg, ROXY Birsfelden and CDCN POLE-SUD Strasbourg.
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