Ursina Tossi - GESPENSTER (*14)

In the organizer's words:

Touch tour: Every evening 45 minutes before the start of the performance (duration: approx. 15 minutes)

Pick-up service: Register at gespenster@gmx.de and we will pick you up at the nearby "Poller Kirchweg" station on line 7. The offer applies to blind and visually impaired people, but of course also to everyone else.

Followed by an audience discussion on 16.11.

In the middle of the foggy, dark November in Cologne, Ursina Tossi and her team present a dance piece that will give you goosebumps. GESPENTER is about moments of haunting in which familiar reality is suddenly shaken, past and present briefly overlap and physical perception and the senses suddenly expand and intensify. The performers transform themselves into ghost hunters and the hunted, collecting ghostly things from experiences of the body, life and violence.

GESPENSTER is a piece with integrated audio description for young and adult people with and without visual impairments.

Ursina Tossi combines dance, media and political themes with intense physicality. Her work draws on pop culture, mythology, fictional and historical sources and questions concepts of gender, species, technology and the body.

She studied philosophy and dance in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and completed a Master of Choreography at ArtEZ Arnhem. She received the Promising Talent 2019 award from tanz magazin. Since 2017 with BARE BODIES she has been co-produced by Kampnagel Hamburg and since 2018 with BLUE MOON by TanzFaktur Köln. Revenants was created in 2020, FUX in 2021. With the new format #WILD_ARCHIVE she moves at the interface of dance/theater and museum. She teaches choreographic practices at universities and colleges and makes audio descriptions.

Choreography, artistic direction, dance Ursina Tossi

Creative collaboration Nona Siepmann

Creative Production & PÖA STÜCKLIESEL

Co-creation & dance Aurora Brocci, Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge, Sakshi Jain, Damini Gairola, Ursina Tossi

Dramaturgy AD Sascha Malina Hoffmann

Stage Raphaela Andrade

Costumes Nina Divitschek

Sound Johannes Miethke

Lighting design Lars Kracht

Video Martin Prinoth

Photography Alexandra Polina

Gespenster is a production by Ursina Tossi & EXCESSIVE SHOWING, co-produced by Kampnagel (Hamburg) and TanzFaktur (Cologne).

Supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture and Media, the Fonds Darstellende Künste (production support) Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and supported by the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.