17th international SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE dance festival for a young audience 2014

SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE

dance festival for a young audience 27.2. – 3.3.2014 DSCHUNGEL WIEN & WUK

DAS MEE(H)R IN MIR! Die unendliche Weite!

Das tiefe Blau!

Ein Ozean an Möglichkeiten – Alles geht – mee(h)r als ich gedacht!

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The 17th international SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE dance festival for a young audience in Vienna presents 8 high-quality productions from Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria and Germany for children and young people from the age of 2 years This year’s motto „Das Mee(h)r in mir“ is based upon a pun, „Meer“ meaning “sea”, “Mehr” meaning “surplus” in German – an ambiguity that cannot easily be translated.

On the one hand, the „sea“ (“Meer”) stands for the place people of all ages long for in order to escape from their daily routine and find peace and quietness, on the other hand it‘s a symbol for the potential (“Mehr”) which is hidden in each human being and is only waiting to flow freely.

Therefore, the productions presented during the festivals treat more obvious subjects such as environment and water but also address more abstract topics such as identity, rebellion and hope.

„ F antas y is the sea in y ou ! “

PROGRAMME DANCE FESTIVAL 2014 Thursday, Feb. 27th 10:00 10:30 16:30 18:00 20:00 Afterwards

Preview: My little sea (2+) Love Songs (14+) PREMIERE My little sea (2+) Love Songs (14+) Opening: Raw / Rauw (10+) Opening party

Friday, Feb. 28th 10:00 10:00 15:00 16:30 19:00

My little sea (2+) Raw / Rauw (10+) My little sea (2+) Duck, Death & Tulip (4+) The Jury / Juryen (6+)

Saturday, March 1st 10:00 15:00 16:30 19:30 Afterwards

My little sea (2+) Duck, Death & Tulip (4+) The Jury / Juryen (6+) TRASHedy (10+) Adventure night (for children)

DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 WUK WUK

DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 WUK DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 WUK

DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 WUK DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 DSCHUNGEL WIEN

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17th international SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE dance festival for a young audience 27.2. – 3.3.2014 DSCHUNGEL WIEN & WUK

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Sunday, March 2nd 14:30 16:00 19:30

TRASHedy (10+) Wild thing (6+) R O S E S together.alone. (14+)

Monday, March 3rd 10:00 10:00 10:30 14:30 16:30

TRASHedy (10+) R O S E S together.alone. (14+) Wild thing (6+) Wild thing (6+) R O S E S together.alone. (14+)

DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 WUK

DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 2 WUK DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 DSCHUNGEL WIEN, hall 1 WUK

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Dance | 45 min. | Premiere| 2 – 6 years DSCHUNGEL WIEN (A) Bathing, drinking, washing, playing: Water is familiar to all of us but still full of surprises.

How familiar we are to this element! Right after birth, we are acquainted to water and most fascinated enough to spend hours and hours exploring it. We bathe in it, we drink it and we play with it. It can be warm and cold, deep as the sea and sometimes hard as the floor.

Water is the one element that we know even before we set foot on this earth. Early we experience all its characteristics and though we know it well there is always something new to explore. Our first movements, our first bodily experiences are made in water and impressed by it. We float, we dive into another world, and it mirrors us and our environment.

With My little sea we plunge into the world of water. Not only the first experiences and all the games we invent with it will accompany us through the performance, but also all the light movements and surprises that can be found in water itself. We build our own world: we watch sea animals and ships, we create islands and water falls. We sense the wind on the sea shore and the quietness as the sun sets.

A special dance performance in the world of water.

Concept & Director: Paola Aguilera | Scenography: Vanessa Achilles-Broutin | Dance & Choreography: Steffi Jöris, Maartje Pasman, Rino Indiono

Physical theatre| 45 min. | Austrian premiere | 5 – 9 years

DUCK, DEATH AND TULIP

Junges Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (G) & Take-off: Junger Tanz

One day, the duck notices a strange figure persecuting it. The creature is holding a tulip in its hand and the duck recognizes it on the spot: It is death. The duck is scared. Has it come to take the duck away? But death has no hurry; it is here just in case. And it actually is quite nice. The duck and death become friends – even if a duck’s daily routine requires getting used to it and even if death doesn’t like water so much. Together they dare to advance unknown lands and discover a world that might be unknown but isn’t that scary at all – as long as you have a friend you can trust and who gives you warmth.

Award-winning children’s books author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch introduces children delicately and poetically to the big questions in life.

Winner of the WESTWIND theatre award 2013.

Extract from the jury’s justification: The performance shows how wonderful life can be when sharing the beautiful moments with somebody else, while time flies by. “Duck, death and tulip” tells us about how life is. And about how theatre can be.

By: Wolf Erlbruch | Adaptation: Franziska Henschel & Katrin Michaels | Director & Choreography: Franziska Henschel| Music: Frank Schulte | Choreographic Advisor: Dina ed Dik, Gudrun Lange | Set Design & Costumes: Johanna Fritz | Dramaturge: Katrin Michaels | With: Moritz, Löwe, Taner Sahintürk, Elena Schmidt | Rights: Verlag Antje Kunstmann GmbH München

WILD THING

Dance and live-percussion | 60 min. | Austrian premiere | 6– 10 years MAAS theater en dans (Rotterdam/NL) Six tomboyish girls are on detention, in a room somewhere in a school, as punishment for an unnamed crime. They are a group of rebellious free thinkers, and the boring situation only serves to stimulate their creative energy, which inevitably bubbles up, turning the classroom upside down. In Wild Thing we see the physical, gutsy side of girls, their power and their determination.

These girls do more than dance; they test their limits, challenge and go one up on each other, and have fun all along the way. They are tough and defiant, but they still remain girls, capable of jealousy or even of cry if the occasion calls for it.

The performance is a song of praise for the Pippi Longstockings, the Lara Crofts, the Meridas and all the other gritty females of myth and legend. The performers in Wild Thing dance and simultaneously make music. They do percussion on their bodies, sing, stomp, and use the whole stage as a musical instrument.

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Choreographer Arthur Rosenfeld about the show: Girls who refuse to do “girly things” are usually loners who have trouble fitting into groups. But in the world we want to create in Wild Thing, it is just the opposite. The conventional idea of how girls behave is turned on its head. They are a group of free spirits ignoring convention and inventing the rules of their world as they go along.

Choreography: Arthur Rosenfeld| Set Design: Sanne Danz| Costumes: Javier Murugarren| Dramaturge: Moniek Merkx| Repetitor: Ana Teixidó| Light: Paul van Laak| Cast: Emilie Birraux, Sil Dekkers, Helene Jank (music), Gloria Ros, Katarzyna Sitarz, Nanda van de Vorle

THE JURY / JURYEN

Dance | 35 min.| Austrian premiere| 6 – 10 years Hege Haagenrud (Oslo / N) „I do not want to cooperate with the other kids, I would like to decide everything myself.“ (Edith, 6 years) The Jury opens with a mysterious scene: two dancers dancing contemporary dance to classical music with projected black and white scenery as a backdrop. Suddenly we hear whispering voices: “What are they doing? Why do they do it? I don´t understand anything! This is boring!”

Then a child appears on the projection fabric in the background, then another and another.

The children stop the show.

They decide that since they are children, and this is a performance for children, they should not only have their voice heard; they should actually make the performance, for who knows better than a child what a children’s’ performance should be like?

If they succeed, we will not disclose in advance, but the group faces many challenges – will they manage to agree on what a good performance should contain? Will they succeed in making the ultimate performance for children?

Choreography & Director: Hege Haagenrud| Set Design: Signe Becker | Dramaturge: Mads Sjøgård Pettersen| Composer: Rebekka Karijord | Sound Design: Erik Hedin| Video: Vibeke Heide & Hege Haagenrud | Dance: Maria Freyvoll & Marie Male Kalstø

Dance and live music | 60 min. | Austrian premiere| 8+ kabinet k (Gent/Belgien) A gang of children balancing on a thin line of joy and struggle in a performance that demonstrates their resilience, hope and idealism. An exercise in standing straight, in resistance to a constant, invisible threat. They develop their own medicine against the chaos of a world that is too big to comprehend, to understand; to control.

Raw is a show about playing, dreaming, pretending, being a child even if it is not possible. It is about growing up in difficult circumstances, seen from a child’s perspective. It is also about the adults that have to take care of them, who are impenetrable, sometimes from close up, but most often from afar.

With live music from Thomas Devos, who like a bard on the battlefield celebrates the courage of the little warriors.

Choreography: Joke Laureyns & Kwint Manshoven | Scenography: Kris Van Oudenhove & Kwint Manshoven| Dramaturge: Mieke Versyp | Management: Ilse Joliet | Assistance: Siri Clinckspoor | Light & Technics: Kris Van Oudenhove & Gerold Van Thieghem | Dance: Yolan Bosteels, Suza De Gryse, Renée Wagemans, Aagje Van Wesemael, Louisa Vermeire , Judith Ginvert, Anna Vrij, Kwint Manshoven, Kristina Neirynck | Live Music: Thomas Devos (Tommigun) Supported by the Flemish government, the province of East Flanders, cc De Ploter, les Ballets C de la B & Takt Dommelhof.

TRASHedy

Choreographic performance | 50 min. | Austrian premiere| 10 – 18 years Performing Group (Ennepetal / G) & tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf / G) How many plastic cups do you use in the course of your life? The degree of our daily consumption and its link to environmental destruction is well known - yet, despite or even because of this - this play aims to generate reflection on our own actions and to raise awareness for environmental protection. With the aid of dance, animated pictures and sound effects, Leandro Kees reenacts the origin of the world and tells the story of our awkward evolution in a humorous and vivid manner.

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In collaboration with performer Daniel Mathéus and composer Martin Rascher, he takes a hard and honest look at our „ecological intelligence” and creates a vision of the future wherein he puts one’s own freedom of choice and the pursuit of happiness at centre stage.

Winner of the Westwind festival’s youth jury audience choice award and main jury’s 1st price.

Extract from the jury’s justification: The award goes to an undoubtedly irresistible contemporary production for a young audience, that casts a happily asking glance on our complex world. (...) For us, TRASHedy is a clear request to change the world. TRASHedy doesn’t leave the audience replete, no, TRASHedy leaves questions that I have to deal with.

R O S E S together.alone.

Dance theatre | 60 min.| 14 – 20 years

Theater Strahl (Berlin / G), DE DANSERS (Utrecht / NL) & SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE (Horn / A) A small group of young people crosses an invisible line: they refuse to stay silent, to go along and follow the herd. They want to be heard! Now, then and in future. They pursue their ideals, they resist enforced conformity and ignorance, they insist on the right to think for themselves and the freedom to act independently. They act fast. They act together. What they do is courageous. Or maybe it’s madness.

Their key question is: what happens when a group of brave human beings decides to pit their high ideals and unrelenting hope against a world of brutality and oppression?

Their inspiration comes from letters and diaries written by members of the ”Weiße Rose”, a group of young students who fought against hustle, suspicion, treason and vengeance in Nazi Germany and paid with their lives for their engagement. Their protagonists might have their names – Hans, Sophie, Willi, Alexander, Christoph. Or any other name. Because they represent what can be found in each and every uproar against inhumanity.

Winner of the IKARUS theatre award 2013.

Extract of the jury’s justification: Compliments for the risk of offering pure dance theatre for young people and for addressing a dramatic topic as this in the very first production. The refusal to tell the rebels’ inner conflict and desperate struggle in a historical way but to make it palpable as a group dynamic experience in an abstract manner is the show’s special achievement. (…) There is no more beautiful way of presenting the acting-together-and-alone and only very rarely theatre conveys to young people how it feels to fight and then have to lose in a more exciting ways. And all of this without any words.

Artistic director & choreography: Wies Merkx | Head of production: Johanna Juliane Thomas | Music: Guy Corneille & Hans Vermunt | Dramaturgical contribution: Ursula Jenni & Yvonne Birghan-van Kruyssen | Set design & artistic contribution: Charles Corneille | Costumes: Wies Merkx | Idea & concept: Wies Merkx, Wolfgang Stüßel, Yvonne Birghan-van Kruyssen | Mit: Guy Corneille, Oliver Moritz, Maartje Pasman/Melanie Wirz, Josephine van Rheenen, Andreas Schwankl, Hans Vermunt, Noemi Wagner

Supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Kultur Niederösterreich.

Dance| 65 min. | Guest performance| 14 – 20 years DSCHUNGEL WIEN (A) Nowadays everything has to be fast, easy and safe, but love never is and was like that. Maybe communication got more harmless today due to internet but the deep longing and profound desire for love stay the same.

In Love Songs, the well-known choreographer Ives Thuwis and young adults set off to a rollercoaster ride of emotions, desires and needs in a very physical and not at all virtual way. The vaunted and cursed phenomenon “love” becomes a battle against expectations, ideals and pain, because there is no love without disappointment, no effort without failure, no solace without pain and no being together without being lonesome.

The desire to be loved for who you are is often quiet, but therefore not less powerful. The anger about not being accepted is often loud, hence not less deserted. In Love Songs all these conflicts, the desire and wishful thinking get transformed into the universal language of dance.

The topics of this play are provided by the experiences, opinions, beliefs and memories of the young performers, but concern and move all of us.

After numerous guest performances, Love Songs is the third collaboration between choreographer Ives Thuwis and DSCHUNGEL WIEN.

Concept & Choreography: Ives Thuwis | Assistance & Co-Choreography: Malika Fankha | Dramaturge: Julia Perschon | Scenography: Artemiy Shokin | Light Design: Andreas Ladik| | Performers: Inès Domìnguez del Corral, Paula Dominici, Oskar Jeglitsch, Daniel Karanitsch, Lilie Lin, Naïma Mazic, Marco Payer

In cooperation with ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival

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