Stage size
12x12m
Duration
60 minutes
Team
7
Age recommendation
>10
Inhalt
We are not alone on this planet. Billions of other creatures live with us and every finger point, every wing beat has consequences for all the others. The bat embodies the knot between humans and animals. It marks the contagious beginning of the corona crisis as the crossing of a boundary between fundamentally different beings. Its bite transforms us, the zoonosis makes us all the same.
Sebastian Weber Dance Company’s new piece takes the bat as a model for an unsettling deep dive. BATS is a bloodthirsty, dark, infectious piece about man as beast in a programmed reality. As a sensual creature between archaic and science fiction, dance and technology, sonar and infrared. Starting from the bat’s depth-sensitive orientation in space, a dense choreography develops in a puzzle of real and virtual spaces. Amidst a jungle of cameras and screens, a flow of movements and atmospheres emerges, a constant mutation of perspectives and beliefs: Tap dance with rapid incidence. Algorithmic, elegant, restless!
BATS is the echo of a disinfected and digital world, where everyone is still connected to everyone else and be it by contagion. Rough, body-smart tap dance combines with hyper-realistic visual effects to network this hybrid beyond the confines of the stage in an online variant developed in parallel.
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Cast
Andrea Alvergue
Helen Duffy
Janne Eraker
Gaëtan Farnier
Vilma Kananen
Nikolai Kemeny
Samuel Vère
Credits
Dance
Andrea Alvergue
Helen Duffy
Janne Eraker
Gaëtan Farnier
Vilma Kananen
Nikolai Kemeny
Samuel Vère
Choreography
Sebastian Weber + Company
Choreography assistance
Michela Pesce
Understudy
Fran Žuglić
Music
Michio Woirgardt
Stage design
Michiel Jansen
Media art
Holger Förterer
Videostream
Raphael Hahn
Costume design
Nele Sternberg
Dramaturgical advice
Guy Cools
Production Management
Josepha Vogel
PR
Sebastian Göschel
Photos
Jörg Singer
Production
SEBASTIAN WEBER DANCE COMPANY gGmbH i.Gr.
in co-production with LOFFT – Das Theater, Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts, Dresden,
Theaterhaus Jena,
Tempel Cultural Center/
Festival TANZ KARLSRUHE.
Supported by
City of Leipzig, Cultural Office, Fonds Darstellende Künste within the framework of the NEUSTART KULTUR program and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon state parliament.