Stage size
9×9 m
Duration
75 minutes
Team
3
Age recommendation
>12
Inhalt
In the solo “The Long Run” Sebastian Weber examines his own role as a white man in a black art form.
In the early 1990s, Sebastian experienced the New York tap dance scene as a place that had left racism behind. The black masters of jazz tap practiced tap as a community of solidarity into which they welcomed young Europeans with open arms. “If you have a pair of tap shoes on, you are in!” said Gregory Hines, and his brother Maurice seconded “Dancers don’t see color” – and meant it as a positive.
Thirty years later, a new understanding of racism and privilege is shaking the certainties of that time. Was the community with the old masters an error? If so, how might it be corrected? And are the utopias of that time still thinkable today?
The Long Run is a piece about cultural appropriation and identity, white responsibility and racism. It is also a dance about ephemerality and memory and the body as a archive of encounters and stories.
Dates
October
November
December
Cast
Sebastian Weber
Credits
Dance & Choreography
Sebastian Weber
Choreography assistance
Vilma Kananen
Dramaturgical accompaniment
Lia Haraki
Movement coach
Eddie Bruno Oroyan
Costume design
Nele Sternberg
Production Management
Jenny Schmidt, Tim Rosentreter
Photo
Jörg Singer
Production
Sebastian Weber Dance Company in cooperation with LOFFT – Das Theater, with the support of Hessisches Staatsballett in the context of Tanzplattform Rhein Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett
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.