Concept and Choreography: Isabelle Schad / Co-Choreography and Dance: Johanna Ackva, Viviana Defazio, Forough Fami, Josephine Findeisen, Veronika Heisig, Jasmin İhraç, David Kummer, Yen Lee, Manuel Lindner, Jan Lorys, Jennifer Schecker, Yusuke Taninaka, Claudia Tomasi, Aya Toraiwa, Maja Zimmerlin / Setdesign and Visuals: Umberto Freddi / Composition and Sound: Damir Simunovic / Voice training: Ignacio Jarquin / Lighting design and Technical direction: Emma Juliard / Video technician: Josef Maaß / Stage technician: Arnaud Lesage / Costume: likabari / Social Media: Rike Nölting / Editing and Education: Elena Basteri / Assistance choreography: Manuel Lindner, Claudia Tomasi, Nir Vidan / Production management: Heiko Schramm
Isabelle Schad
The Shift of Focus
- Dance
In “The Shift of Focus” the dancer and choreographer Isabelle Schad turns her attention to relocations of the centre of gravity, and metaphorically to changes in perception and perspective. In a soft-floored mobile landscape of floating canvases, fifteen performers configure themselves between protagonist and chorus, archetype and natural forces, stage machinery and marionette. Alternating between flying and being flown, pulling and being pulled, carrying and being carried, their roles seem endlessly reversible. Lightness is the answer to gravity here – and to life. A pull of hybrid connections gradually develops, interweaving bodies, movement and material, poetry and humour, voice and sound, mutual care and the wild flow of a group in motion.
Cast
Dates
Past
Further Information
Visitor note
Notes:
After the performance on 14.10.: Çay ‘n’ Talk with Neslihan Arol
Neslihan Arol is a Berlin-Based director, performer, storyteller and academic from Istanbul, specialized in feminist dramaturgies and comedy. Together with her, HAU invites you to a casual and playful after-performance talk format. We look forward to discussing with you over some tea.
Read on HAU3000: Two questions for Isabelle Schad about her new piece “The Shift of Focus”
Credits
Production: Isabelle Schad. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by: Wiesen55 e.V.
Location
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