Lilo and the Pain of Others
04.08-18.08.2024
Berlin
Two years after the last - digital - dance project, the next project with the same title and thematic focuses, but with some new elements, will finally take place.
SAME SAME BUT ALSO NEW & DIFFERENT
The best news: The dance project will take place in-person and on-site, just like before. This summer, young people and young adults from different European countries will gather in St. Chély d´Apcher - a small mountain village at an altitude of about 1000 meters amidst a wild natural landscape on the edge of the Cevennes National Park in Occitania, France. For two weeks, we will dance, eat, experience nature, and enjoy being together - in short, live together.
LILO ERMANNS POETRY ALBUM
Lilo Ermann's poetry album is a small red book with short lyrical texts written by her parents, relatives and friends. This poetry album is kept in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. For a few weeks, the book was loaned to the city of Saarbrücken, the city where Lilo Ermann spent her childhood and youth.
THE PAIN OF OTHERS
The second content dimension of the project results from a small oil painting with the title "Angelus Novus" by Paul Klee and the corresponding mental picture of the philosopher Walter Benjamin. In this picture, the latter discovered the destructive downside of progress as early as 1939 and developed from it a critique of our way of life. This clever man and the oil drawing, as well as the image of the fragility of our earth, will inspire the content of the project.
Framed by the fragility and the (mental) image of the Angelus Novus, the participating young people will deal with six topics in terms of content and dance: With the state of the earth, capitalism, interpersonal relationships, the Angelus Novus and the European dominance culture, and also with the topic of sustainability. The choreography of the emerging dance theater piece becomes a personal uplifting of the young people, a political intervention and possibly also a resistance against their own powerlessness in the current times of crisis.
I want to live.
I want to laugh and have burdens
and want to fight and love and hate
and want to touch the sky with my hands
and want to be free and breathe and scream
I don't want to die. No!
No.
Project led by Heiner Buchen
Artistic Direction: Hannah Chandra Mahler
Choreographers: Hannah Chandra Mahler, Bai Li Wiegmans, Safet Mistele, Anna Tafel, Chloé Lilla Bojoly
Dramaturgy: Hannah Chandra Mahler, Heiner Buchen
Music composer: Carsten Thiele
Visual arts: Timon Homberger
Vocals: Marianna Raffele
Light design and technician: Hannah Chandra Mahler
Videography: CJ Viñalon, Julian Bidot
Photography: CJ Viñalon, Hannah Pauly
Public relations: Mara-Michelle Wagner, Hannah Pauly, Nicolas Manstein, Julian Bidot, Sophie Yelda Siegwart
Pedagogical team: Heiner Buchen, Celeste Ciccolini, Daniela Ciccolini, Marianna Raffele, Lea Reiter, Esther Roca Vila, Nicolas Manstein, Nicole Oster, Hannah Pauly, Lucien Sanglier, Sophie Yelda Siegwart, Mara-Michelle Wagner,
International partners: Mino Cârnu, Jean-Luc Ferstler, Dženita Hasečić, Esther Roca Vila, Tarek Osmanagić