Thu, 6 June    16:00

  • 16:00 - 17:30    Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz Video
    LIGNA

    Tanz aller – ein Bewegungschor

    A TANZFONDS ERBE Project Premiere
    © Nicolas Reichelt

    The project ‘Tanz aller’ deals with the almost forgotten heritage of movement choirs that at the end of the 1920s grasped dance as ­a social and political phenomenon. They aimed at “liberating” the bodies of the dancing amateurs, opening up movements for them that went beyond everyday work and allowed them to act as a chorally orga­nised mass in urban space. The project explores the heterogeneity of this movement and looks for choreographies and stories in nine cities. With the radio ballet, the performance collective Ligna has developed a format with which choreographic interventions in public space with an audience are made possible. Can this practice be seen as an update of the movement choirs? What role can masses, what role can dance play today? What does the organisation of masses beyond representation look like? ‘Tanz aller’ examines the political claim of the movement choirs in the present-day context.

    Registration required
    Meeting point: Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz, near entrance Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

    Production: LIGNA
    Speakers: Rica Blunck, Christiane Meyer-Rogge-Turner, Martin Nachbar
    Music: Felix Kubin
    Supported by TANZFONDS ERBE – Eine Initiative der Kulturstiftung des Bundes

    Further information about the project: Talk with Ole Frahm

Thu, 6 June    18:00

  • 18:00 - 20:00    Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Großes Haus
    Faustin Linyekula & CCN-Ballet de Lorraine

    La Création du monde 1923 – 2012

    Recreation of the choreography of 1923: Millicent Hodson & Kenneth Archer German premiere
    © Mathieu Rousseau

    “We have learned to look at ourselves with the gaze of the West,” says Faustin Linyekula. ­In his production ‘La Création du monde 1923 – 2012’, the Congolese choreographer deals with precisely this gaze. In 1923 the author Blaise Cendrars, the composer Darius Milhaud, the fine artist Fernand Léger, and the choreographer Jean Börlin created the so-called “ballet nègre” ‘La Création du monde’ in Paris, a symbolic creation story that was meant to enable a fresh artistic start after the First World War. The model was “Africa” – ­but ­a naively paradisiacal image of it, which stood in stark contrast to the economic exploitation and political oppression of the colonies. In ‘La Création du monde 1923 – 2012’, Linyekula embeds the original piece, reconstructed by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, in his own choreography on the themes of appropriation and foreignness like a citation. He stages the encounter between the past and the present and between different views of a “common” history: How do Africa and Europe see each other? And: Have these views actually changed since 1923?

    Transfer service after the show to the Congress Venue

    Additional performance on 7 June, 20:00

    Tickets: € 10 – 30

    Artistic direction, choreography 2012 Faustin Linyekula
    Music Fabrizio Cassol
    Set design Jean-Christophe Lanquetin
    Costumes Lamine Badian Kouyaté
    Lighting Virginie Galas

    Reconstruction 1923 Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer
    Dialogue with The Swedish Ballet
    Ballet Blaise Cendrars
    Music Darius Milhaud
    Curtain/sets/costumes Fernand Léger
    Reconstruction lighting Olivier Bauer
    With Jonathan Archambault, Amandine Biancherin, Jennifer Blasek, Agnès Boulanger, Guillaume Busillet, Justin Cumine, Charles Darleci, Fabio Dolce, Dmitri Domojirov, Phanuel Erdmann, Valérie Ferrando, Marc Galvez, Tristan Ihne, Vivien Ingrams, Djodjo Kazadi, Laure Lescoffy, Valérie Ly-Cuong, Sakiko Oïshi, Joris Pérez, Morgan De Quelen, Marion Rastouil, Elisa Ribes, Yoann Rifosta, Ligia Saldanha
    /CCN-Ballet de Lorraine (direction: Petter Jacobsson)

    Production:
    CCN-Ballet de Lorraine
    Coproduction:
    Théâtre de la Ville/Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesarts/Brussels in collaboration with Fondation Fluxum, Théâtre Gérard Philippe Frouard
    Supported by KVS Theater/Brussels

Thu, 6 June    20:00

  • 20:30    Congress Venue

    Welcome!

    Opening Party

    Welcome!© Illner

    After the opening event at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Dance Congress invites all participants, lecturers and guests to come to the Congress centre on the area of the tanzhaus nrw and the Capitol Theater at Erkrather Straße for an exchange and to celebrate with food and drinks.
    Besides artists from North Rhine-Westphalia present a kind of performance itinerary leading to different spaces at the tanzhaus nrw and the capitol.
    MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch opens her flea market with short excerpts and interventions from the European-African project ‘Mitumba – A Happening’. In the ongoing performance ‘Gender-Walking’, the Düsseldorf-based choreographer Morgan Nardi presents parts of his current production ‘3rd’. With ‘51° 13´ N 6° 47´ E’, the choreographer Alexandra Waierstall and the dancer Harris Koushos develop interventions between everyday situations and art actions. In Erik Kaiel’s successful piece ‘No Man is an Island’, two dancers play with an apparent bodily inseparability. The choreographer Leandro Kees portraits artist colleagues from North Rhine-Westphalia in a video installation. In ‘Sesamestreet in Sinop’ by Haus der PerformanceKunst, Sabine Seume and Andreas Simon stage a mimic dialogue somewhere between Sesame Street Oscar from the dustbin and the philosopher Diogenes. The hip-hop dancer Ardit Gjikaj aka Airdit from Oberhausen ranks among the scene’s best B-boys and features his skills in a short solo. Already on the opening evening, the Finnish stand-up comedian Johanna Keinänen will make her first comments and statements in small actions.
    In “Backstage. Spaces, (Hi)Stories of tanzhaus nrw”, students of the University for Music and Dance Cologne under the direction of Katarina Kleinschmidt and Martin Sonderkamp take the audience on audio walks to the less known areas of the tanzhaus.
    Followed by: DJ Mindy

    Further information the same evening on location.