Performance
“Die Anderen”
Concept & Performance: Laura Stefanidis, Ingjerd Solheim
Choreography: Laura Stefanidis, Ingjerd Solheim, Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Mentor & Co-Regie: Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Stage & Costume: Anthoula Bourna
Music: Ermis Tomadakis
Photo credits: Jana Rothe
A dedication to transience, by and with Laura Stefanidis & Ingjerd Solheim
Altstadtbad Krähenteich, 29.11.24, Lübeck, Germany
“My grandmother & universe, isolated in her warm living room. warm living room. She invites me to a place of place of security. She looks like my future me, and I am afraid. She speaks of the past and the present stands still. I travel from one of her memories to the next: Decades merging, unfulfilled loves, realized dreams. Her liquid memories come to life, in her own dusty house an island she has named, a lost paradise.”
“Die Anderen” deals with transience, memory and change. Inspired by our grandmothers & own stories, we want to explore the question of how much transience and change are part of our earthly lives by remembering the lives and stories of our grandmothers in their final years. With powerful storytelling, physical theater and dance theater, we want to approach themes of change and death and manifest a profound journey that invites us to embrace the dance of life and death with all its contrasts. We want to bring to life a being, ‘The Others’, that lives within us (in our costume). With the help of puppetry, a coexistence between our body and the older being will emerge. The costume constantly transforms and gives new accents to this new body. A hybrid – young and old in one body. We want to listen to the being. How many of our ancestors still live within us? We want to work with transformative images in which the role of the ancestor/grandmother and the role of those living in the now stand out and merge. The performers Laura Stefanidis and Ingjerd Solheim want to create poetic worlds with this piece that celebrate transience and grief with strength, playfulness and sensitivity and oscillate easily and touchingly between the aesthetically unattractive and the beautiful.
NAVARASA
Concept – Akshatha Ramesh & Amogh Swamy
Choreography – Akshatha Ramesh
Co-creation & Dance – Maria Pearl Weise, Ingjerd Solheim, Akshatha Ramesh
Dramaturgy & Music – Amogh Swamy
Public relations – Stueckliesel (Hark Empen)
Visual Artist & Photography – Mayur Revanna
Studio Partner – WIESE eG
by Akshatha Ramesh, 9./10. August 2024, Hamburger Sprechwerk, Hamburg, Germany
Step into the world of ‘Navarasa’ – the nine emotions from Indian performing arts practices, that inspire our everyday existence. Through dance and music, three dancers with diverse cultural backgrounds come together to tell a timeless story about these nine emotions. On this stage, their dance becomes a mirror, reflecting love, anger, wonder, disgust, joy, sorrow, fear, courage and peacefulness. As the dancers explore the uncharted territories of the heart, they invite you to uncover your own emotions and perceive the unseen depths of your personal emotional journey. Which emotions drive you? What new insights will you discover about yourself? Come and let’s find out together!
Funded by the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, supported by Hamburger Sprechwerk and WIESE eG.
Uprising Bodies
UPRISING BODIES – A multimedia performance that is talking about the oppression of women in Iran and puts the courage and strength of their resistence in focus.
Artictic Direction, Choreographie: Babak Radmehr
Co-Choreography: Bella Boldt
Dance: Bella Boldt, Ingjerd Solheim
Performers: Ina Klüssendorf, Hanne Lotzkat,
Kristina Schleicher, Inga Golub und Ayem Aopare
Music und Composition: Atena Eshtiaghi
Percussion: Habib Meftah
Project consulting: Farahnaz Sharifi
Project management: Liv Pedersen
Photos und Graphic Design: Parichehr Bijani
Press and public relations: STÜCKLIESEL
Costume: Leila Bijani
Translation of text: Behzad Abbassi
Gefördert durch die Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, die Hamburgische
Kulturstiftung und die Mara & Holger Cassens-Stiftung
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZPJM8uf1cs
Interviews after the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2JbwAhexx8
Review from Birgit Schmalmack vom 1.3.24: http://www.hamburgtheater.de/03c198b12b0ffa802.html
Hamburger Morgenpost: https://www.mopo.de/rausgehen/kultur/getanzter-widerstand-premiere-von-uprising-bodies-im-sprechwerk/
but that was yesterday
by Røst Produksjoner, Therese Slob and Emilie Fuglestad, 25th of August 2023 and 27th of January 2024, Hamar Kulturhus, Hamar, Norway
«but that was yesterday» is a bodily confrontation with constructions and notions of womanhood.
Choreography: Therese Slob og Emilie Fuglestad
Co-creating dancers: Ingjerd Solheim, Emilie
Fuglestad, Aurora Calmeyer, Marte Brækken
Produced by: RØST Produksjoner
The performance is a part of a triple bill with pieces by Subjazz x Camilla Spidsøe Cohen with Wild Wind, WALK Dance Company and SPIRE Dansekollektiv with Lampefeber.
FUX
By Ursina Tossi. 5./6. April 2023, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Switzerland and Parkaue Junges Staatstheater Berlin, 6./7. January 2024
Artistic direction & choreography: Ursina Tossi
Dramaturgy: Uta Engel
Dance: Amanda Romero Canepa, Sophia Neises, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Cliff Huen Yeung, Ingjerd Solheim
Audio description: Carolin Jüngst
Stage: Lea Kissing
Costume: Nina Divitschek
Costume co-production: Ronja Lahr
Sound: Johannes Miethke
Video: Friederike Höppner
Lighting design: Ricarda Schnoor
Assistance & social media: Sina Rundel
Production & communication: Stückliesel
Access & workshops: Dorothee de Place
With FUX, Ursina Tossi and her ensemble is developing a dance piece for young and older disabled and non-disabled audiences that for the first time makes accessibility an artistic tool in her own choreographic practice. FUX is inspired by George Saunders’ book »Fox 8«, which tells the survival story of a fox trying to come to terms with human destructiveness. FUX is an obituary for all the living beings we have already lost and those we are yet to lose. There will be mourning. There will be laughter. How do we want to live together? asks FUX. Ursina Tossi understands the methods of accessability as artistic means and thus goes to the core of a new orientation in inclusive dance and theatre. The artist thus combines her political as well as artistic claim to break with traditional visual habits and replace them with new, fresh arrangements and aesthetics.
FUX is a dance piece for young and mature audience with- and without visual impairments and disabilities. In FUX we’re practicing integrated #artistic_audio_description and one of us
is a performer with visual impairments. FUX is a dance piece about climate crisis and puts the question on the table: how to live with the dead? FUX is an #obituary on all #beings that we’ve lost so far and that we’re about to loose. It’s a dance ritual for surviving beings. There is space for grief and laughter, for mourning and rage!
FUX premiered in December 2021 at Kampnagel, Hamburg as part of NORDWIND Festival. Supported by: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg – Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the FederalGovernment Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by Huckepack Removals.
Silence of the Ropes
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
23 th , 24 th , 25 th , 26 th and 31 st March 2023
Silence of the Ropes is an installation and performance addressing the suppression of civil protest in Iran.
Director & Choreographer: Babak Radmehr
Assistant: Liv Pedersen
Choreographic Assistant: Bella Boldt
Performers: Bella Boldt, Felipe Soto, Ingjerd Solheim, Katherine Rojas Contreras, Kim Bormann, Liv Pedersen, Moe Gotoda, Babak Radmehr
Musicians: Atena Eshtiaghi, Habib Meftah
Installation: Babak Radmehr, Bijan Arjmandi, Paul Glaw
Stage Assistant: Paul Glaw, Weria Ebrahimi, Heshmat Bijani
Multimedia Sound / Light: Reza Ghadyani
Technic: Farbod Mirkarimi
Photo & Graphic Design: Parichehr Bijani
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / Kommunikation: Melike Bilir
Costumes: Leila Bijani
Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg & Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/868894933
SHAKTI | ಶಕ್ತಿ
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Girish Kumar Rachappa
Dance and creation: Ingjerd Solheim, Maria Paz Garcia
Dramaturgy: Fernando Domínguez (EurAsia Member)
Music: Hao Wu
Production Assistant: Akshatha Ramesh (EurAsia Dancer)
Photo and Video: Mayur Revanna
Poem: Amogh Swamy
Premiered on 16 & 17.12.2022 at Hamburger Sprechwerk, Hamburg.
Trailer: Shakti_Video
Shakti means power, energy, and force that resides in and around us.
Shaki portrays the relationship between two dancers in ‘the study’ of balanced and unbalanced forces in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. It explores how proximity generates relationships between the characters ruled by energy and space and how the axis engages the body in a non-stop process of keeping upright against gravity.
An object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What are the consequences of unbalanced forces between dancers in each and different dimensions?
Shakti is a product of the research project “Collapse-Recover” funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and supported by EurAsia Dance Project International Network directed by Stefano Fardelli
Moving Imaginative Bodies #2
workshops and performances with Choreographer Yolanda Morales Autumn 2022
Link: https://www.yolandamorales.net/movingimaginativebodies2
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum
26.& 27. August 2022 //25. & 26. November 2022
Studio “Alte Post”
09. & 10. September 2022//28. & 29. October 2022
Together with a group of international dancers and choreographers, Yolanda Morales offers
open, interactive workshops. In the first edition of “MOVING IMAGINATIVE BODIES” we have already gained experience with dance workshops for people with and without dance
experience. We want to build on these experiences and develop together a movement repertoire that deals with the theme of slowed down cumbia colombiana. Slowed down cumbia colombiana developed fifty years ago in the northern border region between Mexico and the United States, is part of the identity of the city of Monterey and is especially popular with the youth marginalized population.
A sign language interpreter was present.
Initiative, choreographer and workshop leader: Yolanda Morales
Dancers and workshops teachers: Ingjerd Solheim, Sakshi Jain, Sujin Lee, Girish Kumar
Rachappa
IJAKADI OKAN
Storytelling through Dance, Poetry & Live Music by Israel Akpan Sunday
ACUD Theater Berlin, 15/16.07.2022
IJAKADI OKAN is a production by Israel Akpan Sunday in cooperation with K3 │ Tanzplan Hamburg, produced by FAMILY PRODUCTION.
Funded through the Wiederaufnahme- und Gastspielförderung of Dachverbands freie darstellende Künste Hamburg, on behalf of the Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien.
Concept and choreography: Israel Akpan Sunday
Dance: Sarah Lasaki, Ingjerd Solheim, Israel Akpan Sunday
Music: Bettina Russmann, Paul Timmich, Stanley Ikechukwu Njoku
Videography: Larissa Potapov
Costume: Julia Hehlke
Projectmanagement: Vivienne Lütteken (FAMILY PRODUCTION)
Distribution & public relation: ApricotProductions
- prāṇa - | ಪ್ರಾಣ
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Girish Kumar Rachappa
Dance and creation: Deborah Dalla Valle, Ingjerd Solheim, Julien Müller
Dramaturgy: Stefano Fardelli
Photo and video: Amin Bahremand
Music: Pimon Lekler
“prāṇa” was Girish Kumar Rachappa’s first big production. It was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and Premiered at Hamburger sprechwerk, Hamburg, Germany 2021. As well as invited by Tanz.Nord Gastspiel to perform at Rendsburg and Ahrensburg in 2022.
We breathe,
We breathe constantly and unconsciously.
The average adult takes about 16 breaths per minute. That is 20.000 breaths per day and about 600 million breaths in a lifetime.
Humans create patterns and rhythms unconsciously; the way they move, think, sleep, respond, walk, laugh and cry. Similarly, breath has a rhythm. When experiencing different emotions the rhythm of the breath changes. Anxiousness causes rapid breathing and a strain in the voice. Happiness creates a slow and steady breath and a cheerful tone in the voice. When three dancers use voice and breath as an influence to their bodies what happens in terms of their volume, rhythm and quality? How can one body influence the other?
Supported by EurAsia Dance Project International Network directed by Stefano Fardelli and CDSH-Contemporary Dance School Hamburg
Trans//Form 5.0
by Suse Tietjen and The Current Dance Collective Hamburger Sprechwerk July 2021
“Trans//Form 5.0” in the evening of “meta//morph”.
meta//morph celebrated the 5th anniversary of the interdisciplinary artist collective THE CURRENT DANCE COLLECTIVE. On three consecutive evenings, five choreographies was presented in different combinations. Every evening, every piece deals with the topics of growth, change and transformation in a different way.
Artistic direction & choreography: Suse Tietjen
Dance: Nadine Haas, Julien Müller, Ingjerd Solheim, Ronja Kasemi and Alessia Vinotto
Production assistant: Marie Heinicke
The End is Important in all Things
By Suse Tietjen and The Current Dance Collective
Hamburger Sprechwerk July 2021
“The End is Important in all Things” in the evening of “meta//morph”.
meta//morph celebrated the 5th anniversary of the interdisciplinary artist collective THE CURRENT DANCE COLLECTIVE. On three consecutive evenings, five choreographies was presented in different combinations. Every evening, every piece deals with the topics of growth, change and transformation in a different way.
Artistic direction & Choreography: Suse Tietjen
Dance & Choreography: Henriette Charlotte Bethge, Anand Dhanakoti, Nadine Haas, Julien Müller, Anna Milena Okel, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Ingjerd Solheim, Jayron Ruben Pérez Cabrera and Alessia Vinotto
Production assistant: Marie Heinicke
Rave New World
By Suse Tietjen and The Current Dance Collective.
Hamburger Sprechwerk October 2020, March 2021 and October 2021
Leitmotifs from Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel “Brave New World” become the theme of the new dance theater production RAVE NEW WORLD. The question of what control the state has over the human body determines the central plot. Like a crazy frenzy between baroque decadence and techno rave, the choreography tells of topics such as consumption, power and powerlessness as well as the all encompassing question of the freedom of the individual in the structure of a society of the present and the future.
Choreography: Suse Tietjen and Alexander Varekhine
Dance: Ingjerd Solheim, Juliem Müller, Ann-Leonie Niss, Ronja Kasemi, Nadine Hass, Alexander Varekhine and AlessiaVinotto
Extras: Henriette Bethge, Anna Milena Okel, AksanaSchaarschmidt, Sinje Schirle, Eileen Weber, Lena Wolff
Music: Vincent Straube and Claas Herrrmann
daddy
Choreography & Performance: Lucas Kruse Kristiansen
Performance and Co-Choreography: Ingjerd Solheim, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Yashasvi Shrotriya, Felicia Als Klein, Rose Marie Lindstrøm.
”DADDY” is an invitation into the fetish dream of the gay environment, and the issues that brings from this. How we use ”Sugardating” to feel loved, how we abuse our own bodies, and how we let other people with power, money and dominans abuse our bodies. We put ourself into a robot state of mind not to ”feel”, but we actually feel everything. It is suppressed in the need of someone to take care of you, or someone to care about who you are. I am myself in the LGBTQ environment, and there is a lot of support and love, but the side of the extremity is dominating the core of the fellowship. We still do not feel accepted, and the way to protest against that is to use extreme situations to not fit in, when we actually want to be loved for real, to fit in, to be in a society where we are accepted – like a normal human being.
These issues are developed into dance, movement based research with elements of physical theatre and performance art. It will be an invitation inside of the mind of the daddy seekers and extreme life searching experiences, and we want to invite the audience into the universe, problematics and backstage of the abuse of our own bodies to reach something, we do not feel, we can reach otherwise in society or in life.
"BÆST"
Choreography and Concept : Lucas Kruse Kristiansen
Dancers:Girish Kumar Rachappa, Ingjerd Solheim, Yashasvi Shrotriya, Felicia Als Klein, Rose Marie Lindstrøm
Everyone can feel the beast within them like an angry time bomb. Screaming from within to explode into the world! Using the means of contemporary dance, dancingbeasts explores how the structures of the human body react when the beast is released. How does the body position itself in space? Will the mind let go to free our inner animal? How will the body react and move? And above all, how will the people around us react to this outbreak?
CHECK-IN
Chreography and performers : Girish Kumar Rachappa, Ingjerd Solheim, Rose Marie Lindstrøm.
Performed at Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany 2020. https://www.gallerytalk.net/reeperbahn-festival-spezial/
A system is meant to keep everything in order. A well-functioning society is where rules and regulations are respected. What happens if the rules and regulations become too strict and biased to certain groups in the society?
Will people respect the biased rules like a bunch of puppets or will they have enough power to rise their voices again the system?