April 1–3. Dreamer / Anne-Mareike Hess (DE/LU)
Even in my dreams you’re watching me
All these eyes all these eyes
I really wonder what they see
I really wonder what you see
My body knows
In the new dance solo Dreamer, choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess crosses the thin line between the real and imagined, the felt and the fantasized: the Dreamer is a sensual embodiment of awakened femininity as well as a transparent surface for the spectators’ projections. She lures the audience with her ever-changing appearance into a surreal space that gradually exposes patriarchal inscriptions in the female body.
After the solo Warrior (2018), Dreamer is the second dance piece in which the artist tries to fight her way through the tangle of stereotypical ideas of being a woman. She illustrates the multitudes of the human, where the dream operates as a vehicle to visualize individual ambiguity. In order to deconstruct gender roles, Anne-Mareike Hess explores female identity inspired by her own experience as a female socialized body, through mythology as well as popular culture.
Choreography & performance: Anne-Mareike Hess
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp
Sound design: Marc Lohr
Costume & stage: Mélanie Planchard
Light design: Brice Durand
Distribution: Nicole Schuchardt
Thanks to: Jana Sotzko
Production: utopic productions
Co-production: Neimënster (LU), Weld (SE), Skogen (SE),
Support: Centre de création chorégraphique luxembourgeois TROIS C-L, Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg, Fonds culturel national Luxembourg FOCUNA
Research Support: BoraBora Residency Center Aarhus (DK)
Residency: Tanzhaus Zürich, Neimënster
Touring support: Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg
Photo: Bohumil Kostohryz
ANNE-MAREIKE HESS (DE/LU)
is a choreographer and dancer. She studied at the Conservatory in Luxembourg, at the HfMDK in Frankfurt/Main and at HZT Inter-University Center for Dance in Berlin (Master in Choreography).
Anne-Mareike dedicates herself to the body with a high analytical ability and great precision. Her interest lies in bodies on the edge, touching physical and psychological borders and searching for transformation.
Her productions I believe that we are having a dialogue (2012), Tanzwut (2014) and Synchronization in process (2016) have toured to a number of venues and festivals throughout Europe. In 2017 she created Give me a reason to feel (coproduced by the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg).
Since some years Anne-Mareike works in close collaboration with TROIS C-L in Luxembourg, Skogen in Gothenburg and Inkonst in Malmö. She is an associated artist at Weld in Stockholm. In 2017/2018/2019 Anne-Mareike is supported by the Grand Luxe network.
As a performer Anne-Mareike has been working a.o. with William Forsythe (Human Writes), Rosalind Goldberg (MIT and Jump with me) and Ingri Fiksdal (cosmic body). She has worked as a dramaturge for Lea Martini and Lea Moro.
2012 Anne-Mareike was awarded with Prize for emerging artists by the “Stiftung zur Förderung junger Talente”, Luxembourg. 2015 Anne-Mareike was awarded with the “Danzpraïs” from Ministry of Culture in Luxembourg.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm