Dance at the Mousonturm: The TIMES / The DEPTHS

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On June 7, 8 and 9, BA­D­ance stu­dents from the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts will pre­sent an evening at Künst­ler*in­nen­haus Mou­son­turm with six pie­ces that deal with con­cepts such as or­der and wild­ness, di­rec­tion and de­via­ti­on, rea­son and in­tui­ti­on.

The tit­le is an ap­peal to tune in to the spi­rit of the times and the spi­rit of the depths, as Carl Jung put it - to the forces that dri­ve us in in­con­spi­cuous, ever­y­day ac­tivi­ties as well as in crea­ti­ve and ar­tis­tic ac­tivi­ties. In clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with guest cho­reo­graph­ers Rena But­ler, Kris­ti­an Le­ver and Sade Ma­me­do­va, the stu­dents have crea­ted three new works. With "work­wi­t­hin­work" by ho­no­ra­ry pro­fes­sor Wil­liam For­sy­the, "Sam­ples of Chan­ge" by Kris­tel van Issum and "Bo­lé­ros" by Prof. Da­mi­an Gmür, three exis­ting, new­ly rehe­ar­sed works will also be shown.

Fol­lo­wing the pre­mie­re on June 7, the­re will be a dis­cus­sion with Sade Ma­me­do­va, Rena But­ler and Kris­ti­an Le­ver, mo­de­ra­ted by the stu­dents and Prof. Dr. Kat­ja Schnei­der (HfMDK Frank­furt, Dance Stu­dies).

Un­til the pre­mie­re, we pre­sent in­sights into the rehe­ar­sals here and on In­sta­gram.

»This is my fourth time coming here, creating for the first year. I'm creating a piece that involves the whole group and I'm working very much with the individuals, with the potential that every dancer has. (...) The concept that I would love to portray is, as I call it, how to recreate a failed society. So it's a world where we just start to relearn how to touch, how to talk, how to be with each other, how to love, how to connect. How to be next to each other. It's a relearning process, let's say. «Sade Mamedova, choreographer
»Your biggest superpower as an artist is being yourself. (...) I always say, if you're not having an experience, we won't have an experience in the audience. And I think for them to have an experience, they have to put their own voice into it.«Kristian Lever, choreographer
»Wow, the BA Dance students are phenomenal. I'm here working with the second year students and they're so hungry, they're so eager, they're so passionate. (...) I want to give them a full experience, an experience that both plays to their strengths but also challenges them in the studio. And so by the end of it, they can look back and feel like they've expanded themselves, that they've explored and that they've grown artistically, personally, and I think as a company of dancers together.«Rena Butler, choreographer

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