LP ***Listening Session***

Unfortunately, the LP performance cannot take place due to health reasons.
Instead, we would like to invite you to the LP ListeningSession, at the same time and place( December12 and 13 at 20:00 at the CCCC in Cologne Kalk). In the stage installation by Diane Esnault, you can drift away to live music and excerpts from the LP Soundscape. There will be hot drinks, coziness and time to dream.

We are sure that LP will be performed again! For updates follow Benze C. Werner @n3mphx on Instagram or visit their website

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The performance LP cannot take place for reasons of health.
Instead, we would like to invite you to the LP Listening Session, at the same time and place(December 12 and 13 at 20:00 at CCCC in Cologne Kalk). You can drift away to Live Music and snippets from LP's soundscape inside of Diane Esnault's textile stage installation. There will be hot drinks, coziness, and time to dream.

We're certain LP will make a comeback! For updates follow Benze C. Werner @n3mphx on Instagram or visit their Website.

* Tickets already purchased remain valid and can be refunded on request.
** Tickets already purchased remain valid and can be refunded on request.

LP: Benze C. Werner with Ley Ghafouri and guests

Two panting dogs in the middle of the dance floor, drooling in the light. LP is a pack experience, a remix of lesbian history, personal longings and autotune. The starting point are materials from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC), love letters, flyers, sound recordings and essays, with which the artistic team around Benze C. Werner enter into a dialog through their own texts, songs and movement. Personal stories and collective memories merge into a polyphonic collage. Three tongue-like textile installations hang from the ceiling - the central motif of the piece is the mouth. As a gateway to the foreign body, it forms a field of tension between lust and disgust, desire and revulsion. Here the boundaries between bodies become blurred, the spit of others becomes part of me. The possibility of having a say, of having a voice, is also linked to the mouth that speaks, remains silent or sings. LP transforms discourse into catchy tunes. Song and dance are interwoven to open up different emotional approaches in a movement between history and longing. LP is a performance in which visitors can satisfy their sensory needs. Singing along, laughing and immersing yourself are expressly encouraged.

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In the middle of the dance floor, two panting dogs, strands of drool in the light. LP is a pack experience, a remix of lesbian history, personal desires, and autotune. The starting point is material from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC), love letters, flyers, audio recordings, and essays, with which Benze C. Werner's artistic team enters into dialog through their own texts, songs, and movement. Personal stories and collective memories merge into a polyphonic collage. Three tongue-like textile installations hang from the ceiling - the central motif of the piece is the mouth. As a gateway to the foreign body, it creates a field of tensionbetween lust and disgust, desire and revulsion. Here, the boundaries between bodies blur, the spit of others becomes part of me. The ability to have a say, to have a voice, is also linked to the mouth, which speaks, remains silent, or sings. LP transforms discourse into catchy tunes. Song and dance are interwoven to open up different emotional approaches in a movement between history and longing. LP is a performance in which visitors can satisfy their sensory needs. Singing along, laughing, and immersing oneself are explicitly encouraged.

Participants

Artistic direction: Benze C. Werner; Concept: Benze C. Werner with Ley Ghafouri; Movement research: Benze C. Werner, Elin Tezel; Performance: Benze C. Werner, Ley Ghafouri, Elin Tezel; Choreography: Benze C. Werner; Music: Ley Ghafouri; Lyrics: Ley Ghafouri with Benze C. Werner, Elin Tezel and Mia Hofner; Sound / Mixing: Ley Ghafouri with Elyot Trinh; dramaturgy: Mia Hofner; scenography / costume: Diane Esnault; lighting design / technical direction: Nils Ramme; artistic production / PR: Mona Sachße; vocal dramaturgy: Thaddäus Maria Jungmann; graphic design: Ris Pascoe.

LP is a production by Benze C. Werner in co-production with tanzhaus nrw. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW, the Diversity Fund NRW, the NRW State Office for Independent Performing Arts, the Düsseldorf Cultural Office and the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne. Supported by TANZRESIDENZ 2025 im Quartier am Hafen, Freiraum Düsseldorf and cccc - Kreationszentrum Zeitgenössischer Zirkus.

With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut as part of the project funding for research stays abroad.

Many thanks to the Lesbian Herstory Archives New York!

Website CCCC - Contemporary Circus Creation Center
Website Benze C. Werner
@n3mphx