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CLASH

Photos: TunisPhoto

Production: subsTANZ In cooperation with: Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
Choreography: Massimo Gerardi
Music: Collage
Setting and dramaturgy: Massimo Gerardi
Premiere: November 2018

Supported by: Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz - Dresden

Reprise as a quartet: June 2019 Journées Choréographiques de Carthage - Tunis In cooperation with Association Hayyou'Raqs Supported by: NPN-Nationale Performance Netz/München

This project investigates in what ways the echo of colonialism can still be felt in the dance world today. It questions if and how in the post-colonialist era the dance sector still supports the stereotypical binary: civilized-primitive, progressive-regressive, rational-senseless existing between the European and African cultures. In this piece two different languages of contemporary dance meet, the intuitive Tunisian and the institutionalized, intellectual European. How do the signatures of the two dancers differ? The ‘culture clash’ becomes the impulse for the mutual exploration of ways for dealing with each other. The word, clash is thus freed from its negative connotation of collision and instead is understood as the impetus for something new.

CLASH

Produktion: subsTANZ in Kooperation mit: Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
Choreographie: Massimo Gerardi
Musik: Johann Sebastian Bach, Nik Bärtsch, Anouar Brahem
Ausstattung und Dramaturgie: Massimo Gerardi
Premiere: November 2018

Wiederaufnahme als Quartett: Juni 2019 Journées Choréographiques de Carthage - Tunis In Kooperation mit: Association Hayyou'Raqs Unterstützt von: NPN-Nationale Performance Netz/München