Sat, 8 June    19:00

• 19:30 - 20:45    Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Kleines Haus

  Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft

  Nussknacker

  A project by TANZFONDS ERBE
  © Simone Scardovelli

  The Hamburg-based choreographer Antje Pfundtner has made a name for herself with her idiosyncratic style composed of dance, narration, song, and humour. In her most recent production, ‘Nutcracker’, she looks back on one of the most popular classics of dance history in the company of her eight dancers and an unusual “Chor de ballet”. Time and again, moments of the model overwritten with one’s own and collective memories flare up: well-known poses and movements from the classical ballet and Tchaikovsky’s catchy music, which the composer Sven Kacirek newly arranged with vibraphone, piano, marimba, and drums. The result is a melancholy and whimsical dance-theatre piece that leaves room for both memories and the present.

  Performances on 7 and 8 June
  The performance on 8 June is followed by an artist talk.
  

  Tickets: €  8 – 18
  

  By Antje Pfundtner
  With Jenny Beyer, Verena Brakonier, Dani Brown, Philipp van der Heijden, Michael Hess, Silke Hundertmark, Antje Pfundtner, Matthew Rogers, Regina Rossi
  Music Sven Kacirek
  Dramaturgy Anne Kersting
  Scenography Sabine Kohlstedt, Yvonne Marcour
  Sound Manuel Horstmann
  Lighting Michael Lentner
  Musical consulting Markus Mostert
  Choreographic assistance Trinidad Martínez, Philipp van der Heijden
  Production management DepArtment

  Production: Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft, DepArtment
  Coproduction: Kampnagel Hamburg, FFT Düsseldorf
  Supported by TANZFONDS ERBE – Eine Initiative der Kulturstiftung des ­Bundes, Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Kunststiftung NRW, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

  Moderation Artist Talk: Kathrin Tiedemann, FFT

• 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 - 21:45    Theater Duisburg

  Ballett am Rhein

  b.14

  © Gert Weigelt

  Choreographies by Antony Tudor, Frederick Ashton, and Martin Schläpfer

  The Briton Antony Tudor ranks among the most important innovators of ballet in the 20th century. He understood how to condense the means of classical dance to a psychological language of motion in which the artist becomes an actor and human experience, expressed in dance, is brought to the fore. With the pas de deux from ‘The Leaves are Fading’ and the narrative ballet ‘Jardin aux lilas’ about a love that hopes in vain of being fulfilled, the Ballett am Rhein performs two of Tudor’s masterpieces. They stand in a tensional relation to Martin Schläpfer’s choreography on the Second Symphony of Johannes Brahms and to the work of another significant British master: Frederick Ashton, the founder of the London Royal Ballet. His ‘Five Brahms Waltzes’ are an homage to Isadora Duncan, at once remembrance, revival and recreation: the mirroring of Ashton in the art of the famous expressionist dancer.

  Tickets: € 18,10 – 62,80

  The Leaves are Fading – Pas de deux
  Choreography Antony Tudor
  Music Nr. 8 aus ‘Die Zypressen. 12 kurze Sätze für Streichquartett’ o. op. B 152 von Antonín Dvorák in einer Bearbeitung für Streichorchester
  Set/costumes Thomas Ziegler
  Lighting John B. Read
  Staging Kirk Peterson

  Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan
  Choreography Frederick Ashton
  Music 6 Walzer aus op. 39 von Johannes Brahms
  Lighting John B. Read
  Staging Lynn Seymour
  Piano Dirk Wedmann

  Jardin aux lilas
  Choreography Antony Tudor
  Music ‘Poème’ for Violine und Orchester op. 25 von Ernest Chausson
  Set/costumes Thomas Ziegler
  Lighting John B. Read
  Staging Donald Mahler
  Violin Manrico Padovani

  Johannes Brahms – Symphonie Nr. 2
  Choreography Martin Schläpfer
  Music Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 73 von Johannes Brahms
  Set/costumes Keso Dekker
  Lighting Franz-Xaver Schaffer

  Musical director Wen-Pin Chien, Duisburger Philharmoniker

• 19:30 - 23:30    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

Sat, 8 June    20:00

• 20:00 - 21:15    Capitol, Theatersaal

  Candoco Dance Company

  Turning 20

  © Hugo Glendinning

  For more than 20 years, professional disabled and non-disabled dancers have been working together in the London-based Candoco Dance Company. To celebrate the anniversary, the group has made itself a present with an evening featuring two productions combining contemporary choreography with a postmodern classic. The start is made by ‘Looking Back’ by the French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane, an atmospherically dense and visually and musically powerful piece ­presenting individual portraits of the company members. This work is shown alongside a reconstruction of Trisha Brown’s masterpiece ‘Set and Reset’, a choreography to the music of Laurie Anderson, with the stage design and costumes based on the original designs of Robert Rauschenberg. Accompanied by a dancer of the Trisha Brown Company, the Candoco dancers have newly studied the piece under the title ‘Set and Reset/Reset’ in which geometric forms meet a fluid and fast movement vocabulary.

  Performances on 7 and 8 June.
  The performance on 8 June will be followed by an artist talk. The talk will be translated into sign language.
  

  Tickets: € 24 / red. € 12
  

  Artistic direction Candoco Dance Company: Pedro Machado, Stine Nilsen
  Dance: Mirjam Gurtner, Annie Hanauer, Victoria Malin, Susanna Recchia, ­Kostas Papamatthaiakis, Andrew Graham, Rick Rodgers

  Looking Back
  Choreography Rachid Ouramdane
  Sound design Jean-Baptiste Julien
  Set design Jean-Baptiste Julien, Rachid Ouramdane
  Costumes La Bourette
  Lighting design Chahine Yavroyan

  Set and Reset/Reset
  Reconstruction with Trisha Brown Dance Company
  Choreography ‘Set and Reset’ (1983) Trisha Brown
  Direction ‘Set and Reset/Reset’ (2011) Abigail Yager
  Music Laurie Anderson
  Costumes Celeste Dandeker-Arnold OBE
  Set design David Lock (Costumes/set design after the original design by Robert Rauschenberg, 1983)
  Lighting design Chahine Yavroyan

  Moderation Artist Talk:
  Gustavo Fijalkow

Sat, 8 June    21:00

• 21:00 - 21:30    FFT Juta

  Gudrun Lange & Cordula Körber

  Gemeinsam Abhängen/Hanging Around Together

  © Matthias Dunker

  To simply release one’s own body weight – the installation ‘Gemeinsam Abhängen/Hanging Around Together’ makes it possible! During the Dance Congress, the Düsseldorf-based choreographer Gudrun Lange and the stage and costume designer Cordula Körber invite participants to a foyer chat of a special kind: A sweater vest, a belt and shorts hang from ropes in the FFT Juta, which one can get into and “hang around” in. There is also a table hovering in the middle of the room with a glass of sparkling wine for each guest. An inspiring spatial experience!

  Free admission

  Concept:
  Gudrun Lange, Cordula Körber
  Realisation:
  derstrudel, Gudrun Lange
  Dramaturgy:
  Charlotte Pfeifer

  Supported by Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

• 21:30 - 22:30    tanzhaus nrw, Großer Saal

  Ivo Dimchev

  I-on

  © Marian Ivanov

  In the solo ‘I-on’, performance artist Ivo Dimchev creates a performative exploration of sculptures of the Austrian artist Franz West. The so-called ‘Adaptives’ are portable objects without a defined everyday function that the artist, who died in 2012, started to develop in the 1970s and that seem to have symbolised, among other things, “neuroses” for him. Ivo Dimchev developed a series of scenes that are characterised by their great intensity and the creation of a fragile balance between abstraction, comical and trashy elements.

  Performances on 7 and 8 June
  

  Tickets: € 18 / red. € 9
  

  Performance by Ivo Dimchev in collaboration with Franz West
  Production: Volksroom/Ivo Dimchev, Humarts Foundation

• 21:30 - 22:30    FFT Juta

  Keren Levi

  The Dry Piece

  © Anna van Kooij

  In ‘The Dry Piece’, Keren Levi raises the question of female identity in the context of prevailing beauty ideals. She uses dance, video, light, and music to stage a modern ritual that leads the body to the verge of disappearance. Behind the projection screen, four naked female dancers group to structures that are alternately reminiscent of abstract ornaments, heathen fertility rituals or ironically broken media and advertising images. By confronting us with the desire of our gaze, Levi forces us to rethink the relationship between glamour and labour, beauty and pornography. The piece was inspired by Busby Berkeley, the legendary American musical film director of the 1930s, and the neo-feminist bestseller ‘The Beauty Myth. How Images of Beauty are used against Women’ (1991) by Naomi Wolf.

  Performances on 7 and 8 June.
  The performance on 7 June will be followed by an artist talk.

  Tickets: € 8 – 18

  Concept/choreography Keren Levi
  Dance/choreography Mari Matre Larsen, Tijana Prendović, Orfee Schuijt, Eva Susova
  Dramaturgy Igor Dobričić
  Music Tom Parkinson
  Lighting Minna Tiikkainen
  Video Assi Weitz
  Technical management Paul Schimmel
  Cubicle design/photography Daan Brand
  Advice Moos van den Broek
  Project management Irene Noordkamp

  Production:
  Stichting Neverlike (Keren Levi)
  Coproduction:
  FFT Düsseldorf, Huis a/d Werf Utrecht, Grand Theatre Groningen, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster
  Funded in the frame of the international co-production series ‘Public Bodies. Dramaturgien der Entblößung‘ by Kunststiftung NRW
  Funded by Performing Arts Fonds NL (Amsterdam), City of Utrecht
  Supported by Centro per la Scena Contemporanea in Bassano del Grappa, Tanzquartier Wien, WP Zimmer in Antwerpen

  Moderation Artist Talk:
  Kathrin Tiedemann, FFT

Sat, 8 June    22:00

• 22:30 - 23:00    FFT Juta

  Gudrun Lange & Cordula Körber

  Gemeinsam Abhängen/Hanging Around Together

  © Matthias Dunker

  To simply release one’s own body weight – the installation ‘Gemeinsam Abhängen/Hanging Around Together’ makes it possible! During the Dance Congress, the Düsseldorf-based choreographer Gudrun Lange and the stage and costume designer Cordula Körber invite participants to a foyer chat of a special kind: A sweater vest, a belt and shorts hang from ropes in the FFT Juta, which one can get into and “hang around” in. There is also a table hovering in the middle of the room with a glass of sparkling wine for each guest. An inspiring spatial experience!

  Free admission

  Concept:
  Gudrun Lange, Cordula Körber
  Realisation:
  derstrudel, Gudrun Lange
  Dramaturgy:
  Charlotte Pfeifer

  Supported by das Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

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