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Susanne
Linke/VA Wölfl
"Schritte verfolgen" – Rekonstruktion 2007
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Sat 23.02.2008 | 20.00 h
Schauspielhaus
60 min
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After 22 years, Susanne Linke returns to her first full-length solo,
"Schritte verfolgen" (Retracing Steps), which she now
shares with three other female dancers. Together they retrace the
different phases of Linke’s life in an autobiographical piece
about childhood, youth and maturity. The clear-cut stage design
(a white room with table) by visual artist VA Wölfl, lighting
and a collage of music ranging from classical to African tribal
to railway sounds provide an apposite setting. The end appears at
the very beginning: Linke virtually floats across the stage as the
Grim Reaper. But what follows contains liberation, passion and the
desire to "be", which Linke and her performers show in
virtuoso fashion with small gestures and great steps, combining
to form a biography of the body.
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Susanne Linke trained with Mary Wigman,
studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and danced in the Folkwang
Studio with Pina Bausch, where she took over as director after creating
her own first works. She set up her first company in the early 90s,
directed the dance theatre of the Bremen Theater and was a founding
member of the Choreografisches Zentrum Essen. She returned to work
as a freelance choreographer in 2001 and was awarded the "Deutscher
Tanzpreis" (German Dance Award) in 2007.
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Further information: www.thelab-berlin.de
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Choreography | Susanne Linke. Dance | Susanne Linke, Elisabeta Rosso,
Armelle H. van Eecloo, Mareike Franz. Production assistant | Adriana
Kocijan. Lighting | Hartmut Litzinger ( following the original concept
by Johan Delaere, 1985). Stage design | Roger Irman (following the
original design by VA Wölfl, 1985). Costumes | Rupert Franzen.
Sound | Damian Lang. Music collage by | Dieter Behne using excerpts
from Hector Berlioz, „Faust Verdammnis” (Romanze des
Gretchen, Ritt über den Abgrund), Eisenbahngeräusche,
Trommelmusik aus Rwanda und Togo, Frédéric Chopin
(Walzer op.64/3, Nocturne op.9/2, beides gespielt von Sergei Rachmaninoff,
1923), Edward Grieg (Huldigungsmarsch), Gustav Mahler (9. Sinfonie,
Schluss des 4. Satzes)
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A production of: The Lab.Art & Media GmbH (Berlin). Co-produced
by | PACT Zollverein (Essen), Théâtre Le Phénix
(Valencienne)
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Funded by | the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Arts Foundation
NRW
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A reconstruction of the production | Susanne Linke/VA Wölfl
Schritte verfolgen, Solotanzabend. First performed on September
18th 1985 at the 35th edition of the Berlin Festwochen in the Akademie
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