1st INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL WEIMAR

POSTTHEATER / USA / GERMANY / JAPAN

EXPRESS FIGHT CLUB

24th + 25th Mai 2011 / 19.30 + 20.30 

 

This multi-media choreography for 30 local performers, deals, like the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, with questions of self-images beyond social and professional definitions: Is our profession really our calling? What defines our self-image if it does not work? Express Fight Club shows how the formation of a group can occur very quickly. The play is not interested in “machismo” and violence, but in alternative forms of subversion. After enthusiastic responses at the dance night in Berlin, Spain, Bulgaria and Taiwan, the latest version of this "choreography machine” will be presented for the first time in Germany, in Weimar.

"Technically perfect and original."
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The group post theater explores in its work, how to develop new possibilities and spaces with the help of simple media sources, for theater. 
The media is a performer in a game, in which the boundaries between "live" and "pre-produced" and sometimes "performer" and "spectator" are indistinguishable from one another.

 

Choreography Hiroko Tanahashi Concept/Direction Post Theater (Hiroko Tanahashi/Max Schumacher) Dance local performers, Alexander Schröder Dramaturgie Max Schumacher Media Hiroko Tanahashi, Yoann Trellu Soundart/Musik Sibin Vassilev Technical direction Fabian Bleisch Production Mario Stumpfe – Artkrise

 

Made possible by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, supported by Tanznacht Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin and National Museum of Singapore.