Until the Beginnings

In the organizer's words:

Driven by global rhythms, UNTIL THE BEGINNINGS is an energetic performance that brings together an international team of eight dancers from Senegal, Germany and France with musicians from the fields of percussion and spoken word.

The directors Alesandra Seutin (artistic director of the École des Sables, Senegal) and Stephanie Thiersch (artistic director of MOUVOIR, Germany) weave a choreographic tapestry from their different worlds that questions the nature of hospitality.

Current political entanglements that criminalize hospitality in many parts of the world, concepts by Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle, but also images of utopian communal spaces are the decisive impulse here.

The team embarks on a journey to deconstruct the concept of "home". In a web of continuity, cycles and connections, they explore the possibility of cultivating a communal garden.

The creation of UNTIL THE BEGINNINGS is accompanied by the online magazine SYBL by MOUVOIR. The participatory platform encourages participating and non-participating artists, friends and interested parties to contribute their own ideas on the topic of hospitality and thus take part in the creative process of the piece.
It's easy to join in: sybl.de.

Artistic direction: Alesandra Seutin, Stephanie Thiersch
With: Tarang Cissokho, Latif Arafan Wa-hab Diedhiou, Nadia Gabrieli Kalati, Cola Lok Yee Ho, Kezia Jonah, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, Alexandre Nodari, Shelly Quest, Joel Suárez Gómez, Christ Zié
Concept, stage, choreography: Stephanie Thiersch and Alesandra Seutin with the ensemble
Costumes: Lauren Steel (Berlin)
Lighting: Begoña Garcia Navas (Paris)
Management: Josefine Sautier
Production management: Sarah Heinrich (MOUVOIR), Hervé Breuil, Paul Sagne (École des Sables)
Finances: Béla Bisom, transmissions
PR, social media: Nina Lobinger
Press: neurohr & andrä
Production: MOUVOIR e.V. and Freihandelszone -Ensemblenetzwerk Köln, École des Sables Senegal
Co-production: tanzhausnrw, Sommerblut Kulturfestival

Supported by: Kunststiftung NRW, the NATIONALEPERFORMANCENETZ. Co-production funding for dance supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung
MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch is funded by: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne

Price information:

Cologne: www.schauspiel.koeln/tickets-abos/tickets/ Düsseldorf: https://tanzhaus-nrw.reservix.de/