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JENNI PERGAMENT & FRIENDS

(Germany)

LABEL ME – EINE CHOREOGRAFISCHE ANORDNUNG

PREMIERE

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SON, 17.5., 18.00 H

WED, 20.5., 21.30 H

THU, 21.5., 12.00 H

 

GERHARD-MARCKS-HAUS

TICKET CATEGORY 6

DURATION: CA. 60 MINUTES

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What do we perceive as aesthetic, what as beautiful and what as normal? And: how much deviation from the norm do we tolerate? The steel actors of the sculptor Robert Schad and three dancers are the protagonists of this unusual choreography that Jenni Pergament created specifically for the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus. In LABEL ME, she confronts her dancers, who comply neither with the norm of the customary dancer’s body nor with the body ideals conveyed by the media, with Robert Schad’s massive and at once delicate steel sculptures. In interactions with Schad’s pieces, Jenni Pergament invents ever new, provocative and permeable movements and forms with her dancers. In LABEL ME, the Bremen-based choreographer sensually and assertively plays with attributions such as awkward, clumsy and sluggish, thus challenging the traditional definition of aesthetics and norms.

 

Central themes in JENNI PERGAMENT’s work are localization in movement as well as transformation and ambiguity. She studied at the Laban College London and the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In 2007 engagements as a dancer brought her to the Bremer Theater for two seasons, where she worked with Johann Kresnik, among others, and to the Staatstheater Lübeck as well as independent projects. Since 2009 she has been realising her own choreographic pieces and formats, and since 2014 she has been translating her choreographic practice into paintings and installations. She returned to dance and choreography again in 2018.

 

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Choreography/Concept: Jenni Pergament

With: Mateng Pollkläsener, Ming Poon, Stefanie Rasch

Lightdesign: Lutz Deppe

Objects: Claudia Piepenbrock

Sculptures: Robert Schad

Sound: N.N.

Dramaturgy Advice: Anika Steinhoff

Production: Jenni Ramsperger, Rita Frische

Coproduction: Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, TANZ Bremen, HZT und Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin

Supportet by: Freundeskreis des Gerhard-Marcks- Hauses e.V., Der Senator für Kultur Bremen

 

EXHIBITION

Robert Schad – Bremen vierkant

15. März bis 14. Juni 2020

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