Daniel Hellmann
Concept, choreography Daniel Hellmann
By and with Braulio Bandeira, Giovanna Baviera, Géraldine Chollet, Hea Min Jung, Lena Kiepenheuer, Krassen Krastev, Florencia Menconi, Lukas Huber et Rui Stähelin
Stage collaboration Nacho
Musical concept Abélia Nordmann, Lukas Huber, Daniel Hellmann
Dramaturgy Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs
Scenography Theres Indermaur
Set & costume design Valérie Reding
Musical preparation Abélia Nordmann
Sound design Lukas Huber
Light design Ursula Degen
Technical direction Anna Lienert
Outside eye Jessica Huber
Assistance Antonia Krämer, Quentin Barthassat
Production Larissa Bizer
Dissemination Florence Francisco - Les Productions de la Seine
Music by John Dowland, Lukas Huber, Marin Marais, Tarquinio Merula, Gérard Pape
Production 3art3 Company & novantik project basel
Coproduction mit Gessnerallee Zürich, Theater Chur, Gare du Nord Basel, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne & Nationaltheater Mannheim.
In cooperation with Tanzhaus Zürich & Théâtre Sévelin36 Lausanne
With the support of Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich, Fachausschuss Musik BS/BL, Pro Helvetia, Migros-Kulturprozent, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Sophie und
Karl Binding Stiftung, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art.
Requiem for a piece of meat has been reward with the June Johnson Dance Prize 2015.
To Guacamole memory.
REQUIEM FOR A PIECE OF MEAT
Under the direction of Daniel Hellmann, a group of dancers, vocalists, instrumentalists and two pigs have gone through a joint working process that unwinds the traditional order of bodily functions and assignments. Dancing, tripping, groaning and grunting, they transform the stage into a space of interspecies encounters. Who here is animal, human, thing? How free can we be?
Mountains of meat and moving limbs interweave themselves with musical languages from several epochs to form a requiem in seven movements. A commissioned work by the young composer Lukas Huber confronts the historical material with the sound of intestines, the voices of animals and the musicality of their processing. Poetry and objectivity. A farewell to allegedly established categories. A funeral mass in the midst of life.
After Traumboy, a documentary solo piece about sex work, the young choreographer, singer and performer Daniel Hellmann pursues his research of a transdisciplinary art dealing with the contemporary body, a sensitive and social body with all his contradictions and paradoxes
REPRESENTATION DATES
8th & 9th february 2019
Swiss Dance Days au Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne (CH)
21st june to 23th june 2018
Ballhaus ost, Berlin (DE)
21st june 2017
Konzert Theater Bern (CH)
25th to 27th april 2017
Théâtre de Vidy Lausanne (CH)
5th to 7th april 2017
Gare du Nord Basel (CH)
23th & 25th to 28 march 2017
Gessnerallee Zürich (CH)
© Nelly Rodriguez