Concept, choreography & performance: Dramaturgy: Saša Božić / Artistic assistant: Frances d'Ath / Collaboration with: Laurent Goldring, Alain Franco / Light: Benni Schroeter / Light design: Mehdi Toutain-Lopez / Production management: Heiko Schramm / Costumes: Charlotte Pistorius
Isabelle Schad
Fugen
- Dance
English /
60 min.
With “Fugues”, Berlin choreographer and dancer Isabelle Schad continues her work between musical concepts and their expression in movement. Coming from a music background and a lifelong interest in the polyphonic work of J.S. Bach, she attempts to look at her own (hi)story and the origins of (her) movement between discipline and pleasure, examining the body and its energies in its materiality, process, and time.
The term fugue (Latin fuga, related to fugere ‘to flee’ and fugare ‘to chase’) unites two antagonistic principles in one and the same notion, and thus serves her as an analogy for the body in exercise, where the principles of chasing and fleeing, giving and receiving, emptiness and fullness are becoming one; to be as much body as to be movement, as spirit, as self.
Schad starts off telling and showing. The piece becomes its own fugue: a form within a form. Playing with its respective compositional elements such as repetition and time delay, the work investigates the multiple rhythms, lines/lives and voices within one single body. Having for many years been in exchange with visual artist Laurent Goldring, her main questions around non-representational movements and visibility continue: how could the very notion of exercising become image? How could energy itself become image?
“Fugues” is an autobiographical work in which the performer’s body serves as an example for the construction of the individual within disciplines and systems one cannot escape from.
“Fugues” and “Solo for Lea” are part of a series of works that Isabelle Schad subtitles as portraits and will be shown as Double Bill on the same weekend in HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Sophiensaele Berlin.
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Isabelle Schad. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Espace Pasolini (Valenciennes). Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs and the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag. Supported by: Wiesen55 e.V.
The re-run ist funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
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Location
HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 BerlinHAU3 unfortunately is not barrier-free. Access to the theatre is via a stairwell (3rd floor). The use of a lift is possible with prior arrangement. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or email us at tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de. Wheelchair users are also kindly requested to register their attendance at least one day before the performance.
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