April 11+12. Anne-Mareike Hess (DE): Tanzwut

Let’s come together and dance.
We are the movement and we are the groove.
Our bodies extend into each other until complete dissolving.
Here and now, the dance floor is ours.
Out of space and out of time, only devotion counts.

In Tanzwut, choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess deals with dance as a medium for the formation, negotiation and experimentation of cultural norms and social structures. Throughout the centuries dance appeared repeatedly as a mean of liberation and ecstasy, and at the same time as a way of disciplining and healing the body.

Concrete examples for this are the choreomania epidemics between the 14th and 17th century in Europe. In these delusional mass dances up to several hundred people danced uncontrollably and seemingly motiveless for hours and days – until they collapsed from exhaustion.

Anne-Mareike Hess uses this phenomenon as a peg in order to question the role of dance in our society and its potentialities through her own movement practice.

Idea and concept : Anne-Mareike Hess | Development and performance: Rosalind Goldberg, Anne-Mareike Hess, Sigrid Kopperdal Hirsch and Jorge De Hoyos |Sound design: Marc Lohr |Light design: Brice Durand| Stage & costume: Katrin Fürst | Dramaturgy: Mira Moschallski | Production manager: Jérôme Konen | Coproduction: Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois – TROIS C-L

Support: Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg, Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte – Fonds stART-up, Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei, Fonds culturel national, Fondation Indépendance, Dock 11, HZT – Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Berlin

ANNE-MAREIkE HESS (DE/LU)
is a dancer and choreographer. She trained in music and dance at the Luxembourg Conservatoire, TROIS C-L, HfMDK Frankfurt (2002-2006 diploma in stage dance) and Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin/ Ernst Busch (2008-2010 Master in Choreography). As a freelance dancer and performer Anne-Mareike has worked with William Forsythe (Human Writes), Eeva Muilu, Zeina Hanna, Rosalind Goldberg and others. She has worked as an assistant for a number of choreographers and as a dramaturge for the choreographer Marina Tenorio.

Anne-Mareike’s choreographies have featured at several festivals in Europe and Canada. In 2008 Anne-Mareike was invited to take part in the international ‘Dance Roads Tour’ and to attend the Lille ‘Les Repérages’ festival (FR). In 2010 the Luxembourg National Theatre (TNL) co-produced her piece Never-ending up north. Her collaboration with Sandra Lolax, I believe that we are having a dialogue, toured through Luxembourg, Germany and Scandinavia in 2012. Tanzwut, her latest production, premiered at Luxembourg’s Banannefabrik in autumn 2014 and will travel to Inkonst in Malmö (SV), JoJo in Oulu (FI) and Dock11 in Berlin (DE).

Anne-Mareike and the director Miriam Horwitz form the artistic duo ‘Horwitz & Hess’. Since 2009 this creative partnership has produced a number of works that were shown in Germany and Scandinavia. Their current production Palais idéal premiered in April 2014. Anne- Mareike will be in charge of choreography for Ich befürchte jetzt kennen wir uns (UA), a play by author Ivor Martinic, directed by Miriam Horwitz at Gavella Theatre Zagreb.
In 2012 the Luxembourg foundation for the promotion of young artists awarded Anne-Mareike the prize for new talent.

JORGE DE HOYOS (US)
is a dancer and choreographer from San Francisco. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2012. His latest project as a performer, Sketches/Notebook, was in cooperation with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. He recently performed Sara Shelton Mann’s solo The Love of Emptiness in San Francisco and starred in TURBULENCE (a dance about the economy) by Keith Hennessy.

Jorge De Hoyos was born in Los Angeles, California and studied cultural anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is one of the co-organizers of a live-work studio, THEOFFCENTER, an artists’ space for queer discourse in San Francisco. Jorge’s articles and interviews have been published in ‘Dance’ (San Francisco), ‘Dance Theatre Journal’ (London) and on the THEOFFCENTER.org blog.
Further information: http://jorgedehoyos.com

ROSALIND GOLDBERG
was born in Oslo (NO) in 1984. She studied Contemporary Dance at Balettakademien Stockholm and has been enrolled in the Choreography Masters programme at HZT Berlin since 2012. She has been working as a dancer and choreographer in Stockholm and Berlin since 2007. Recent works include the duet A section of falling, the solo trilogy Suites with Rosalind Goldberg and the solo An Image in Flux. Rosalind’s work has been shown at K15, Schauspielhaus Bochum; Perfect Wedding, TanzFabrik Berlin; ’Tanztage Berlin’; ’Tanzoffensive’, Chemnitz and Leipzig and at ’Diversia’, Kosroma (RU) amongst others, as well as on stages including Weld and MDT in Stockholm, Inkonst in Malmö and Sophiensäle and Uferstudios in Berlin. Since 2008 Rosalind has been working on collaborative projects with Stina Nyberg and Sandra Lolax, producing Weapons of Mass Production and Fake Somatic Practices as part of the ‘Nordic Residency’ initiative of the Weld and MDT Stockholm Residency Programme. Her latest production MIT was invited to ImpulsTanz and nominated for the ’Prix Jardin d’Europe’ award.

In addition Rosalind has danced and performed in several pieces with Ingri Fiksdal, Anne-Mareike Hess, Mårten Spångberg and others. She is about to embark on a joint project with artists deufert&plischke as well as on a new production with Lolax and Nyberg. She was awarded the danceWEB scholarship in 2010 and selected for residencies at Station – Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade (RS). She is a regular guest at Weld, the Stockholm stage and research platform.

SIGRID HIRSCH kOPPERDAL (NO)
Born in Norway 1985 and based in Oslo. She graduated from the Oslo National Academy of Arts with a BA in Modern and Contemporary Dance and continued her studies at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (AU). Sigrid has worked with choreographers including Ingri Fiksdal, Eva-Cecilie Richardsen, Elle Sofe Henriksen, Jana Unmüssig and Franz Rogowski. She has also been working on her own pieces, which include the solo Jeg er ikke en øy (2013), for a number of years. She is one of the artists involved in the organization of ‘Mind The Gap’ dance festival in Oslo (since 2012).

MARC LOHR (drums/electronics)
grew up in Luxembourg where he took jazz and classical music lessons. After studying in Den Haag Marc lived in Copenhagen for a few years before moving to Berlin, where he is now based. His compositions are wholly or partly improvisation based. He writes music for instruments, electronic devices and moving persons.

KATRIN FÜRST
is studying architecture and urban planning at Stuttgart University (DE) and ETSA Barcelona (ES) where she has shown a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity in her work. Textiles and fabrics are becoming part and parcel of her conception of space. Katrin has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer since 2010 and has ventured into creative realms including design, architecture, installation and performance. The focus of her work is on the relationship between bodies, architecture and clothing as well as on the performative nature of these elements. Katrin Fürst lives in Berlin.