Productions

BORDERS + PASSAGES

Research Theme: »To look life in the face, to know it for what it is, to love it for what it is, it is the right of every human being.« (The Hours 2004)

Borders + Passages …

… Language and time – structures which bind us, but at the same time deliver our identity. The borders between an existential necessity for these structures and an inscape or the manifestation of an outer persona are invisible and rather blurry. Time and language are coterminous: "to be in the one is to be in the other" (Derrida 1982)

Breathlessly enclosed in a world alienated by time as the ‘master and measure of social existence, which appears more and more mechanical and empty. We can break out, but do we have enough courage for freedom; for the leap into the unknown, into a liminal space, which doesn’t host our usual points of reference including our own fears, to which we cling despite all contrary statements?

Choreography: Katrin Riedel-Kelly
Cast: Raisa Kröger, Saskia Oidtmann und Anja Richter
Costume + Set: Susanne Bachmann, Katrin Riedel-Kelly
Lightingdesign: Roth 01
Music/Soundscape: Ipso Schaltwerk, Quid in Shrapnel
Length: -55 Min.

Review:  'movement patterns, which
burn themselves into your skin …'

tanznetz.de July 2008  »  Download PDF

NIGHT: A Physical Theatre Piece

Research/Motto: »Untying the text revealing the unspoken« – discovering the physical reality behind the spoken word.

NIGHT is a physical theatre piece, which is inspired by a short play written by H. Pinter. It questions our efficiency to communicate with each other. For NIGHT, the aim was to create a physical narrative by re-discovering and translating these often contradictory intentions and complexities of human interaction and thought into a ‘total language’ of the stage.

One room, two people, one past, two memories. Two people that have lost themselves and their relationship in the years of functioning. A desperate attempt to rescue what lies in the past and seems forever lost in the present.

"… in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter someone else’s life too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." (H. Pinter, 1998)

Cast: Tracy Collier, Anthony Straeger
Sound: Quid in Shrapnel; Tori Amos: ‚Smells like Teen Spirit’
Costume + Set: Katrin Riedel-Kelly
Length: -25 min.

Review:  'a poignant piece
of physical theatre …'

Guardian Unlimited March 2007  »  Download PDF

BLUE: Performance Installation + Film Production – A Co-Production with Backlight Dance Project (USA)

Research Theme:
»Ourself behind ourself concealed should startle most.« (E. Dickinson)

BLUE is a film for three dancers exploring the effects of postmodern architecture and citylife on the (female) body and psyche. The inescapability of the surveillance systems, open spaces and the density of human life allows for no real privacy.

Being watched, learning to permanently examine and watch ourselves. The social persona or mask, behind which the inner landscape of fear and dreams lies bare. A fake shell beneath which more isolation and alienation to ourselves and our environment rather than a feeling of openess, togetherness and closeness that is continually promoted in postmodern society, is growing. The longings, needs, fears – in short: the values of the soul, of what can be defined as natural as well as our relationship to nature including our own nature (body + self) – remain inevitably trapped inside. The theme was translated into movement, soundscape and determined the editing process. Movement phrasing is developed with Laban’s effort terminology.

Premiered in London in September 2004
In 2008 to be seen at the following film-festivals for dance on film: Almeida Festival Portugal, ‚Shoot’ Stockholm, Sweden; Pool 09, Dock 11 Berlin (tbc)

Performer: Uma Mather, Katrin Riedel-Kelly and Chrisitina Teague-Mann
Film Direction: C. Teague-Mann
Edit: C Teague-Mann, A Straeger, Quid in Shrapnel
Length Film: 12:51 min., Length Live Performance: 25 min.

L F T: A Dance Theatre Piece (Solo + Duett)

Research Theme: From lived experience to artistic form – how to translate the original experience into a work and thus create an experience for the spectator. Drawing ideas out of a personal object: a meditative process, the performer identifies ideas, situations, actions, smells etc. associated with the object and subsequently responds to those associations without the object. Shaping the material considering how Laban’s effort phrasing corresponds with Jung’s 4 emotion factors/attitudes.

Content: Loss – the absent presence of people that shape our own identity. We embody them as well as our own self.

Performer Solo: Tracy Collier
Performer Duett: Tracy Collier + Katrin Riedel-Kelly
Sound: BBC Soundeffects + Soundscape by Quid in Shrapnel
Length Solo: 10 min. – Duett: 12 min.

Shown at the Studio Theatre, Laban Centre, London 2004