Helge Letonja & Of Curious Nature: Nomada

About the content of the play:

Nomada is the intangible, the one who has long since folded her tents, the one who upsets you. Her life force springs from fire. If you try to locate her, a whirlwind of data particles will engulf you. She moves along winding paths as an archaic striding body and disembodied in the digital world, effortlessly switching between environments.

Nomada emerges between dancing bodies, ancient myths and videographic images, allowing seemingly immovable opposites to collide. In the face of nature under pressure and human confusion through engaging artificial intelligence, it laughs at the approaching changes, seizes every chance to escape, meets you in a dream and emerges from the ashes where you sit, weeping for every dying species.

The Ensemble Of Curious Nature seeks physical approaches to the themes of migration and transformation. In collaboration with filmmaker Isabel Robson and composer Miguel Marin, choreographer Helge Letonja and the dancers explore the lives and mindsets of nomads. Characterized by the intensive interactions with their living spaces, connections between these lifestyles and the present become clear and at the same time point to collective voids.

About the artists:

Helge Letonja choreographer and artistic director of steptext dance project and the dance company Of Curious Nature, has created more than 50 dance works presented worldwide, often realized in interdisciplinary and transcultural collaborations. As a choreographer, Letonja creates vital areas of friction and vibrant symbols that reflect social conditions and processes and combine the emotional and mental movements of individual and social bodies with metaphorical contexts. In his works with Of Curious Nature, he deepens the artistic forms of expression to draw the complexity of contemporary man in dynamic, powerful ensemble pieces. In addition, Helge Letonja is a tireless advocate for the interests of dance, both in his adopted home of Bremen and nationwide, as a board member of the Dachverband Tanz, and is committed to strengthening and communicating the art of dance in a variety of collaborations. In this way, he opens up dance as a mediator of cultural diversity, social participation, interdisciplinary art and research.

Information on accessibility:

The performance lasts approx. 75 minutes without an interval.

The audience area in the grandstand is seated.
Wheelchair spaces are usually located in the front row and can be reserved in advance by telephone(0421 520 80 70), by email or by entering them in the ticket store.

Individual requirements such as specific seats, early boarding or an additional ticket for an accompanying person can also be specified when purchasing or reserving tickets.

Further information on the accessibility of our premises can be found here. If you have any questions, please contact us at ticket@schwankhalle.de or 0421 520 80 70.

Credits:

Choreography: Helge Letonja
Choreographic assistance, training management: Mariko Koh
Dance: Lys Cabral, Wan-Yun Chen, Jed Nagales, Tiago Reis, Daniel Sabia, Pere Sansaloni Servera, Carolina Verra
Video art: Isabel Robson
Costume: Csenge Vass
Lighting: Laurent Schneegans
Dramaturgy: Anke Euler
Technical direction: Nathaniel Johnson
Production management: Henriette Koch, Médoune Seck
Management: Kerstin Witges
Photo: Marianne Menke
Film/Media: Médoune Seck

A production by TanzRAUM Nord gUG with steptext dance project, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senator for Culture Bremen and the Waldemar Koch Foundation Bremen.