Being Moved

Simon Mayer/Kopf Hoch

Austria
Fr 14.10.2022, 9:00 PMBuy tickets T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4 E Price category A (21 euros / concessions 14 euros / pupils 9 euros) (Evening box office: +2 euros) Performance, 60 minutes, some spoken German

Swinging light bulbs, clouds of smoke, storms of stroboscopic lights and breathing as a soundscape. On stage, there are chairs for seven invisible performers in a semicircle, at the centre of which stands a dancer. His visualised breathing gradually turns into wild gyrations. Breath becomes movement and vice versa, sometimes meditatively, at other times furiously and ecstatically. Simon Mayer unites body and mind to achieve a transcendent state with an increasing, room-filling intensity. Being Moved is a virtuoso interplay of dance-like gestures and bodily noises that create a symphonic crescendo, condensing into a trance-like soundtrack.



Simon Mayer
studied at the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy and the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels; he is also a former member of the Vienna State Ballet. As a dancer, choreographer and musician, he has appeared in productions by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas (The Song), Wim Vandekeybus (Frisking) and Zita Swoon, among others. In 2017, he received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Federal Chancellery of Austria. He founded Kopf Hoch as an association of artists and technicians who have worked regularly with him in recent years.

A coproduction with brut Wien, Rosendal Theater, Tanz Ist

In collaboration with Kunstenwerkplaats, AMOK Festival/KAAP, CC Brugge, Dans in Brugge, IGNM-OÖ Linz

Supported by culture department of the city of Vienna, Federal Ministry Republic of Austria for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport Austria, SKE Fonds

Thanks to Virginie Pfeiffer, Emilie Laurent, Justine François, Martina Knoll, Michael Hazod, Coupé Décalé, Needcompany


Compography, performance
Simon Mayer Sound design, co-creation Pascal Holper Dramaturgy Guy Cools, Robert Steijn Light design Sabine Wiesenbauer Costumes, stage design Diego Andrés Rojas Ortiz, Nicole Lechner, Magdalena Adriane, Max Salesse, Sabine Wiesenbauer Technical coordination, lighting design (tour) Jeroen Smith General management Katrin Pröll Advice Corine Sombrun, Karoline Maria Wimber Production Hiros, Kopf Hoch/Miriam Lesch, Lisa Anetsmann Photos Franzi Kreis

Ensembles


RAMKOERS
BOT – Netherlands
Tout/Rien
Cie Modo Grosso – Belgium
Immoral Tales – Part 1: Mother House
Compagnie Non Nova – Phia Ménard – France
Thin Skin
Eliška Brtnická & coll. – Czech Republic
SOMATIC TRATATA – rhythm, rapture and romance
Hannah Shakti Bühler & Simon Mayer – Germany/Austria
#mysharedspace
Kollektiv mysharedspace – Germany
Babel
LOD/Steve Salembier – Belgium
Zoé
Luna Cenere/Körper – Italy
TRAUMTEXT2022
Nowitz/Kupke/Schulze/Müller – Germany
Across
Squadra Sua – Czech Republic
A handful of people… something which resembles happiness
Vélo Théâtre – France
Concert
Die Therapie – Germany
UNIDRAM-Abschlussparty
DJ Petroschi – Germany
Concert
Dobranotch – Germany
Concert
Laguna Motel – Germany

Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
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