Their Future
Three dancers and one singer move through changing climatic conditions. Amidst an acoustic weatherscape, they look for ways of coping with anger, anxiety, panic, and helplessness. They negotiate the distribution of resources and responsibilities. They try to keep everyday life running, torn between hope, pragmatism, and self-accusation. This is how we survive becomes their recurring mantra. The children are absent. Time and again, we catch a glimpse of their habitation, as if through a window – a climate capsule? Where are they, and what do they do there? Is there anybody caring for them? Do they wonder: Why did you not fight harder for us?
The piece constitutes the first instalment of FUTURE RELATIONS, and interdisciplinary choreographic long-term project searching for viable relations in times of an escalating climate crisis.
Press
Antje Velsinger and her team have found a multi-layered, clever world of images on the subject of climate justice for future generations, which raises many questions and never falls into the temptation to answer even one of them prematurely. Together with her multinational cast of dancers from Korea, Lagos and Germany (Marie Klemm, Mihyun Ko, Sunday Israel Akpan), sound designer Julia Krause and singer and performer Zola Mennenöh, she has created an artfully composed atmosphere of reflection without barriers in which the audience can immerse themselves. (translated, originally in German)
Birgit Schmalmack, hamburgtheater.de, 11.12.23
Trailer
Credits
Artistic direction: Antje Velsinger * Concept: Antje Velsinger, Heike Bröckerhoff, Julia Krause * Choreography: Antje Velsinger in collaboration with the dancers * Dance: Marie Klemm, Mihyun Ko, Sunday Israel Akpan * Vocals & Sound: Zola Mennenöh * Sound: Julia Krause * Stage, Costume: Signe Raunkjær Holm & Sofia Stål * Video Concept & Development: Antje Velsinger, Signe Raunkjær Holm & Sofia Stål * Video Direction: Signe Raunkjær Holm & Sofia Stål * Dramaturgy: Heike Bröckerhoff * Lighting: Dennis Nähr * Production: Christina Gießmann * Press & Public Relations: Hark Empen & Stückliesel * Camera, DOP: Paul Sonntag * Video Set & Costume: Sofia Stål, Signe Raunkjær, Oda Vad Nielsen * Video 1st AD: Jules Mogensen * Video 1st AC & focus puller: Phillip Hummel * Gaffer: Tilman Bensiek * Electrician: Aleksa Krieg * Grip: Manuel Scholz. Photos: Martin Rottenkolber * Trailer and Documentation: Michael Maurissens * Teaser: Signe Raunkjær Holm, Sofia Stål, Paul Sonntag
A production by Antje Velsinger, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf. Supported by Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg – Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Kunststiftung NRW. Supported by Lichthof Theater Hamburg, Theater am Depot Dortmund and tanzfaktur Köln.
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