Sun, 9 June    16:00

  • 16:00 - 18:00    Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung, Weltkunstzimmer
    Ben J. Riepe Kompanie

    The White Void_Series/Happy Together

    © Ben J. Riepe

    The Düsseldorf-based choreographer Ben ­­J. Riepe shows excerpts from two different works. With the installation ‘The White Void_Series’, Ben J. Riepe continues his work at the intersections of dance, performance, music, and ­visual arts: Situated between choreography, installation and lab, he stages an arrangement of animate and inanimate things ­as a discussion on the concept of nature. The stage performance ‘Happy Together’ deals with the desire for eternity and beauty. At the centre of the performance, which will be shown in a first preview at the Dance Congress and then premiere at the tanzhaus nrw in the fall of 2013, is the body as material, form, image, and as a stage for the connection between nature and artificiality, art and eroticism.

    Installation/performance spaces are continuously open to the audience.

    Tickets: € 5

    The White Void_Series (Installation)
    Choreography Ben J. Riepe
    Performers Daniel Ernesto Müller Torres, Simon Hartmann, Lenah Flaig, Ophelia Young et al.

    Co-production:
    PACT Zollverein (Essen)

    Gefördert von:
    Fonds Darstellende Künste, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Düsseldorf

    Happy Together (Preview)
    Choreography Ben J. Riepe
    Performers Simon Hartmann, Daniel Ernesto Müller Torres, Lenah Flaig et al.

    Coproduction:
    tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Théâtre La Chapelle, Montréal

Sun, 9 June    19:00

  • 19:30 - 20:00    FFT Juta
    Theater der Klänge

    CODA – Bach Cello Suite in C Minor

    Moderated Work Presentation

    CODA – Bach Cello Suite in C Minor© Theater der Klänge

    In 2012 the Theater der Klänge celebrated its 25th anniversary. The ensemble from Düsseldorf takes up the aesthetic stage language of the Bauhaus from the 1920s and develops it into an inter-medial form of its own. It is now working on a new dance concert that will premiere in the 2013/14 season. In “CODA – Bach Cello Suite in C Minor”, two dancers, a cellist, a video artist, a choreographer, and a composer/director gauge the boundaries between the arts, with the music of Johann S. Bach determining the time and form. Baroque dance forms and modern light ornaments are interactively combined to a sensual Gesamtkunstwerk in which the dancing body serves as a moving projection screen.

    The work presentation is followed by an artist talk.
    Free admission

    Mise-en-scène J. U. Lensing
    Choreography Jacqueline Fischer
    Dancers Nina Hänel, Phaedra Pisimisi
    Video Tobias Rosenberger
    Cello Beate Wolff

  • 19:30 - 21:15    Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Großes Haus
    Falk Richter & Anouk van Dijk

    Rausch

    © Sebastian Hoppe

    “You know I used to be so wild and now I am so fragile.”
    Pairing of the human species in the Western hemisphere has become complicated. The ecstasy of love, our last utopia, has been transformed into a highly competitive market. And when love is found, the work begins: on the relationship and on oneself. Where can we still find the all-consuming passion that gives life its meaning and depth? Has the autonomy and self-responsibility which we fought so hard for as modern individuals become a curse? Seven dancers and five actors set off on a quest for the ultimate flush, to break free from the constraints of our liberal society of control, to a life full of intensity and freedom.
    In an egalitarian process, the author and director Falk Richter and the choreographer Anouk van Dijk have created a further work of art together.

    Performances on 8 and 9 June.
    The performance on 8 June will be followed by an artist talk.

    Tickets: €  9 – 41

    Project by Falk Richter, Anouk van Dijk
    Text by Falk Richter
    A coproduction with anoukvandijk dc

    With Peter Cseri, Lea Draeger, Cédric Eeckhout, Birgit Gunzl, Philipp Fricke, Angie Lau, Gregor Löbel, Steven Michel, Aleksandar Radenković, Jorijn Vriesendorp, Thomas Wodianka, Nina Wollny
    Direction/choreography Falk Richter, Anouk van Dijk
    Set design Katrin Hoffmann
    Costumes Daniela Selig
    Music Ben Frost
    Lighting Carsten Sander
    Dramaturgy Jens Hillje

    Supported by Freunde des Düsseldorfer Schauspielhauses, Niederländische Stiftung für darstellende Kunst, Stadt Amsterdam, Botschaft des Königreichs der Niederlande, The Rolex Institute

  • 19:30 - 22:00    Opernhaus Düsseldorf

    Poeten, Virtuosen, Charaktere

    Dance Personalities as Guests of the Düsseldorf Opera House

    © Gert Weigelt

    The dance personalities whom we can witness on the stages of German theatres are as widely varied as the aesthetic views, dance techniques and artistic approaches of their choreographers. This fascinating spectrum of the current state of dance art is the theme of an evening prompted by the Conference of Federal German Ballet and Dance Directors on the occasion of the Dance Congress 2013 at the Opernhaus Düsseldorf. Members of various German troupes, as representatives of about seventy companies of ballet and dance in Germany, present excerpts from contemporary and classical choreographies – from the reconstruction of a Grete Wiesenthal waltz to dance classics such as ‘Swan Lake’ or ‘Le Sacre du printemps’, all the way to a technoid dance spectacle.

    Tickets: € 11,50 – 52,70

    Moderation:
    Cécile Schortmann

    Concept:
    Martin Puttke/BBTK
    A production by BBTK/Bundesdeutschen Ballett- und Tanztheaterdirektoren Konferenz in collaboration with Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg

    Eager
    Felipe Soares Cavalcante, Ballettcompagnie des Mainfranken Theaters Würzburg
    Music: 1st movement from the 2nd piano concert by Elena Kats-Chernin
    Choreography/lighting: Anna Vita
    Costumes: Kristopher Kempf

    Voices (world premiere)
    Lara Lioi, Huy Tien Tran, Balletthagen
    Music: “Innocent“ by Pust from the album “Femkant“
    Choreography/costumes/lighting: Ricardo Fernando

    Plucked
    Kelly Tipton, Riccardo de Nigris, Ballett Augsburg
    Music: 2nd string quartet by Gabriel Prokofje
    Choreography: Maurice Causey
    Costumes: Claudia Keller

    Die Kinder der Königin (world premiere)
    Iskra Stoyanova, Rory Stead, Ballett Koblenz
    Music: “Galuboj Wagon“ by Wladimir Jakowlewitsch Schainski
    Choreography/lighting: Steffen Fuchs
    Costumes: Dorit Lievenbrück

    Heroes
    Ramon A. John, Jorge Soler Batista, Donlon Dance Company/Ballett des Saarländischen Staatstheaters
    Music: “The Jean Genie“ by David Bowie
    Choreography: Marguerite Donlon
    Costumes: Benjamin Tyrrell
    Lighting: Lutz Deppe
    Video: Cecile Bouchier

    „Bin ich?“
    Odsuren Dagva, Thüringer Staatsballett
    Music: “Cockeye‘s Song“ from “Theme from once upon a time in America“ by Ennio Morricone and “Day of Misfortune“ from “Ashes of time“ by Frankie Chan
    Choreography/costumes: Silvana Schröder
    Lighting: Klaus Limmer

    Weißer Schatten
    Alina Köppen, Joseph Bunn, Ballett im Revier
    Music: Concert no. 23 a major KV 488 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arrangement for Oud and Klavier by Hughes de Courson and Ahmed Al Maghreby from the album “Mozart in Egypt“
    Choreography: Raimondo Rebeck
    Costumes: Valeria Lampadova
    Lighting: Jürgen Rudolf

    Schwanensee – Pas de deux
    Rafaelle Queiroz, Flavio Salamanka, Badisches Staatsballett Karlsruhe
    Music: “Schwanensee“ (adagio from the 2nd movement) by Peter I. Tschaikowsky
    Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon after Marius Petipa and Lew Iwanow
    Lighting: Christopher Wheeldon after Natasha Katz

    Panorama Tanz
    Magdalena Pawelec, David Roßteutscher, Ballett des Theaters Nordhausen
    Music: Adagio from the 2nd string quartet by Leoš Janáček
    Choreography: Jutta Ebnother
    Costumes/lighting/video: Wolfgang Kurima Rauschning

    Le sacre du printemps
    Leander Veizi, BallettVorpommern
    Music: “Le Sacre du Printemps“ by Igor Strawinsky
    Choreography: Ralf Dörnen
    Costumes: Claudia Kuhr

    Plafona
    Alessandra Corti, Cordelia Lange, Pin-Chieh Chen, Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg
    Music: “Plafona“ by Ori Lichtik
    Choreography: Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar
    Costumes: Maayan Goldman
    Lighting: Avi Yona “Bambi“ Bueno

    Ramifications
    Marlúcia do Amaral, Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg
    Music: “Ramifications“ by György Ligeti
    Choreography: Martin Schläpfer
    Costumes: Thomas Ziegler
    Lighting: Volker Weinhart

    I Found a Fox
    Eric Gauthier, Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
    Music: Kate Bush
    Choreography: Marco Goecke
    Costumes: Michaela Springer
    Lighting: Udo Haberland

    Wein, Weib und Gesang
    Brit Rodemund
    Music: “Wein, Weib und Gesang“, op. 333 by Johann Strauß (jr.)
    Choreography: Grete Wiesenthal
    Reconstruction/repetition: Susanne Mundorf
    Costumes: Nicola Schmid
    Lighting: Lutz Castell

Continuous

  • Capitol, Foyer
    Johanna Keinänen

    Stand-Up-Comedy-Dance

    As a dancer, choreographer and stand-up comedian, the Finn Johanna Keinänen has combined her passions for humour and movement. During the course of the ­Congress, she spontaneously and with a wink comments on what she has seen, heard and experienced with short interventions. That she thoroughly sets herself in motion, as well, is a point of honour.

    By/with Johanna Keinänen