Dionyzoé

In the organizer's words:

Butoh dance myth by Alexander Wenzlik

Dionysus: playful child, androgynous being, shape-shifter, son of a mortal and a god, victim and crusher of men. Like no other mythological figure, he stands for the boundlessness of the untamed. In ancient times, his followers, the maenads, fled into nature to break out of their social constraints by summoning the god. Over 2000 years later, in a society caught between self-optimization, conformity to rules and crisis management, the urge to transgress boundaries is our constant companion. In "Dionyzoé", instead of wild nature, the body becomes a place of freedom, of play, of experimentation with qualities and identities beyond binary attributions. Alexander Wenzlik approaches the myth by interweaving central principles of Butoh, which go back to Tatsumi Hijikata and others, with elements from contemporary dance, film, stage design, make-up and costume. This creates new qualities of movement in different parts of the body, which become flowing images in the eye of the beholder.

Choreography, direction: Alexander Wenzlik | Dance: Alexander Wenzlik, Mio Hagl, Leni Hagl | Film, dramaturgical advice: Stephanie Felber | Film, photography: Sebastian Korp | Costume advice: Mirella Oestreicher | Dressmaker: Rabia Darouiche | Make-up: Peter Lutz | Lighting, projection: Christian Zeitler | PR: Pfau PR, Christiane Pfau

About the artists

In his work, Alexander Wenzlik (born 1975) searches for fruitful connections between Butoh dance and elements of contemporary dance. One focus is on the question of what a contemporary, European-rooted butoh dance can look like that is open to a contemporary formal language and can develop its very own movement language in this connection. He is also particularly interested in exploring themes from Greek mythology. Since 2012, he has been developing his own stage pieces alone and together with his partner Seda Büyktürkler, most recently the solo piece Sirene, which premiered at HochX Theater and Live Art in Munich in 2017. From 2017 to 2021, he worked with the Italian butoh dancer Alessandro Pintus and an international ensemble on the artistic research project "Apocalisse Nova", which was performed at HochX in Munich in 2020 and in Tuscania, Italy, in 2021. In addition to his projects as a dancer, Alexander Wenzlik is artistic director of the dance and theater festival Rampenlichter (www.rampenlichter.com). Since 2009, he has directed the youth dance ensemble You Dance, with which he was invited to the 5th Tanztreffen der Jugend of the Berliner Festspiele in 2018. Since 2016, he has been teaching his dance approach in courses and workshops for children, young people and adults under the name YouDance(www.youdance.net).

Stephanie Felber develops multimedia productions in which she questions viewing habits, experiments with spaces and enters into an open dialog with visitors. Her works are characterized by an interdisciplinary and participatory approach. As a photographer and videographer, she is involved in video-dance projects, gives workshops on the interaction between dance, body and camera and documents performances in the independent scene (including Meg Stuart, Ian Kaler, Anna Konjetzky, Stephan Herwig, Cristina Caprioli) . www.stephanie-felber.de

Mirella Oestreicher worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele in the stage and costume department for Renè Pollesch, the city project "Bunny Hill" and Peter Kastenmüller, among others. She studied stage and costume design at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2008 she has worked in the independent scene in Munich, including with Jörg Witte, Philine Velhagen and Bülent Kullukcu, at Schwere Reiter with Zufit Simons and as a set designer for Stephan Herwig. In 2013, she founded the theater collective Autobahntheater together with Franziska Keune from Berlin. She produced several of her own productions, for which she developed the concepts and directed. In 2021, in the multimedia, interactive play "World Wo*Men", a German-Iranian co-production, she explored where the family as a core cell of society is heading when more and more women and men no longer see themselves in traditional concepts. www. mirellaoestreicher.de

Peter Lutz studied puppetry at the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin from 1992 to 1996. While still a student, he was awarded the Friedrich Luft Prize for his production of "Weihnachten bei Iwanows" at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and the Max Reinhardt Prize at the Meeting of Drama Schools in Stuttgart for "Die Maßnahme". He works as a freelance puppeteer and puppet maker for various theaters, including the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam, the Theater Basel, the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, the Bavarian State Opera, the Residenztheater and Metropoltheater in Munich. With Julia Giesbert he realizes family plays as Giesbert&Lutz, such as "Die tapfere Schneiderin" (premiere at HochX, Munich) in November 2023.

Dates: Fri, 15.03. + Sat, 16.03. | 20:00
Venue: schwere reiter
Tickets: 30€ support / 18€ normal / 12€ reduced / 5€ minimum price

Supported by Friedrich Stiftung, Stiftung für künstlerische Projekte | Bezirksausschuss 9 Neuhausen-Nymphenburg der Landeshauptstadt München | Bezirk Oberbayern | Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München

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