›Blue Skies / Bodies in Trouble‹

Mit dem wachsenden Einfluss der Technologie auf das Leben verändern sich unsere Körper, unsere Gemeinschaften und unsere Umwelt – was tun?

Fabian Saavedra-Lara (Leiter, Büro medienwerk.nrw) und Stefan Hilterhaus (Künstlerischer Leiter, PACT Zollverein) geben erste Einblicke in das Festival ›Blue Skies / Bodies in Trouble‹, das vom 10. bis zum 14. Juli bei PACT Zollverein stattfindet.

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Monica Duncan & Senem Pirler

Surface Connection is a live performance that explores the concept of queer space, objects and the relationship between queer bodies through a series of audiovisual interactions where we touch/vibrate/fluctuate/excite surfaces and objects. In our collaboration, we channel our camp sensibility and create performative actions by “vibrating”, “deviating” and “disrupting” bodies, objects, and surfaces from their normative representations and their linear paths.

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Sidney Leoni

Choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Sidney Leoni returns for a second residency at PACT with his docu-fiction-dance-film-performance ›FLY‹; the first residency was together with composer Yoann Durant to produce and record ›FLY‹’s soundtrack and original songs, and this time he will be joined by lighting designer Anton Andersson and dancer Jaan Ulst to finalize the performance on PACT's stage.

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Seyoung Jeong

We have already seen tragedy in the theater, began to understand the principles of tragedy unconsciously and the audience witnesses various variants of the tragedy in the theater. In my research, I wondered why the tragedy in the theater did not work as before.

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Anna West & David Callanan

During their residency at PACT Anna West and David Callanan of idontloveyouanymore have been working on their new project ›Even Fruit Flies Get Frustrated‹.

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Léonard Engel

A magic show? A hunting party? A punk concert? In How to get rid of a body. A magic manual, his new solo created in collaboration with electronic musician Korhan Erel and dramaturg Maja Zimmermann, choreographer and performer Léonard Engel blurs the lines between practices and genres.

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Juli Reinartz

Eine gemischte Gruppe von Performer*innen kehrt zurück zu den Anfängen dessen, was wir als Tanznotation kennen und fragen, was in ihren Bewegungen heute notiert werden muss.

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Agata Maszkiewicz

During their residency in PACT Agata Maszkiewicz and her team tried out the strategy of ›LISTING‹. For 10 days Agata Maszkiewicz, Olivier Normand, Christophe Demarthe and Vincent Tirmarche launched themselves onto a trip of creating, imagining, composing, representing, choreographing lists of everything that surrounded them.

Alma Söderberg on ›Entangled Phrases‹ (March 08 & 09 at PACT)

Calm perfectionism, poetic precision and sensual lightness characterize the works of Alma Söderberg, who most recently presented the world premiere of her solo ›Deep Etude‹ at PACT. In her latest work ›Entangled Phrases‹ she now continues her exploration of sound and movement, polyrhythm and polyphony through an axiomatic practice of 'listening to movement‘.