UK Premiere

Ásrún Magnúsdóttir and Alexander Roberts (Reykjavík/Trondheim)

Teenage Songbook of Love and Sex

Saturday 15 October 2022, 5.00pm – 6.00pm

20 Sheepcote Street
Birmingham, B16 8AE + Google Map

Supported by Performing Arts Centre Iceland. UK Premiere.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

55 mins £13/11

- Loud noises / music
- Moments of complete blackout
- possible use of haze/smoke
- contains reference to r*pe and/or sexual assault
- contains strong language and adult themes

Details

A group of teenagers standing together facing the camera with hands raised.

Image by Owen Fiene

A group of teenagers sat on the floor one in front of the other close together in a line formation.

Image by Laimonas Puysis

A group of teenagers sat on the floor spread out slightly

Image by Laimonas Puysis

a teenage girl plays the guitar, she has blue hair and is wearing a pink top and black trousers.

Image by Laimonas Puysis

Pop music and true stories about youth, sex and gender.

Working with teenagers from Reykjavik, Iceland, the Teenage Choir of Love and Sex sing songs they have written themselves based on their own romantic and sexual experiences. They sing for themselves and each other. They sing for love, curiosity and heartbreak. They sing for every virgin, every slut and every thirsty bitch – so they never need to feel alone again.

Teenagers and music are made for each other. The songs we listen to in our youth, and the stories they tell, determine how we come to understand ourselves and the world around us, separating right from wrong. But what if all heteronormative pop songs were about something different? Based on stories told by youths, A Teenage Songbook of Love and Sex seeks new ways to talk and think about love, gender, and sex.

Concept and Creation: Ásrún Magnúsdóttir and Alexander Roberts

Musically directed and composed with: Teitur Magnússon

Co-authors and performers: Lísbet Sveinsdóttir, Marta Ákadóttir, Salóme Júlíusdóttir, Ísafold Kristín, Katla Sigurðardóttir Snædal, Kolfinna Ingólfsdóttir, Óliver Ali, Uloma Osuala, Una Barkadóttir, Karen Nordquist Ragnarsdóttir, Egill Andrason, Haukur Guðnason, Hanna Gréta Jónsdóttir, Sverrir Gauti Svavarsson og Karólína Einarsdóttir.

Choir-conductors: Sigríður Soffía Hafliðadóttir and Aron Steinn Ásbjarnarson

Premiered: Meteor Festival, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway and Reykjavík Dance Festival, Tjarnarbío, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Co-produced by: BIT Teatergarasjen, Teenagers in Reykjavík, Reykjavík Dance Festival, the Nordic Residency Platform, NORDBUK and apap – Performing Europe 2020 which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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Fierce Says

We first saw the work of Ásrún Magnúsdóttir way back in 2018 and we’ve been trying to work with her ever since. She creates brilliant participatory projects with different groups of people. Teenage Songbook, made with Alexander Roberts, is a joyous life affirming experience. Exuding agency, it's a privilege to have these teenagers perform for us.

Details

UK Premiere

Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins (Stockholm, Montreal & Tulsa)

Radio III ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ

Saturday 15 October 2022, 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

Supported by the Embassy of Sweden, London and Québec Government Office. Presented in partnership with FABRIC. Included in our tiered discount offer.

60 mins £13/10

Details

RADIO III /ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance and a perverse triangle of shifting power. RADIO III questions, challenges, and defies minimalism and postmodern dance’s aesthetic claims of neutrality. It strives to make visible what has been kept invisible in colonial systems of recognition and aesthetics.

As we live, layer and situate form in our bodies we hurtle through past, present and possible futures. We invite you into a supportive co-existence, separate but aligned, an anthem for xenophilia, a complicit dream, a consensual prophecy.

The intention of Radio III, a larger work that includes Elisa Harkins’ solo Wampum performance, is to create a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement between the performers in the work as well as with people watching the piece, regardless of tribe or race.

Presented in partnership with FABRIC.

Zoë Poluch’s artistic practice puts into motion different mediums and takes shape in different rooms. Her love-hate relationship with the “contemporary dance” scene is based on a long term and practice-based interest in the politics and poetics of moving and sensing. As she teaches, dances, talks, writes and thinks, she does it with a precise gymnastics of the senses.

Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. Harkins received a BA from Columbia College, Chicago and an MFA from CALARTS.

Hanako Hoshimi-Caines is a mother, dancer, performance-maker, writer, questioner, enthusiast and organizer born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work plays with the pleasure and the haunt of the familiar as strategies of resistance and transformation.

Credits

With and by: Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins

Light Design: Paul Chambers

Costumes: Jade Tong Cuong

Regalia: Carol Young

Earrings: Molly Murphy-Adams

Residencies, co-production: MAI, MDT, Dance Victoria

Funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Agora de la danse, The Stable.

Discussion partners: Ivanie Aubin-Malo, James Goddard, Maria Kefirova, Stina Nyberg, KatieWard, k.g. Guttman, Kelly Keenan and Magnus Nordberg

Photo: Kinga Michalska

Performance photos: Mathieu Verreault

The work opened at MAI in Montréal June 3, 2019

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Fierce Says

The combination of Elisa's music and Zoe & Hanako's dance is irresistible. You may remember Hanako from Make Banana Cry at Fierce 2019. Prepare for Elisa to become your favourite new popstar!

Details

Saturday 15 October 2022

2.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

UK Premiere

Alice Ripoll / Cia REC (Rio de Janeiro)

Lavagem (Washing)

Saturday 15 October 2022 – Sunday 16 October 2022

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in collaboration with Art Happens (Ghent) as part of Flanders Focus. UK Premiere.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

70 mins £15/13

Details

Performers all grouped together on a big blue tarp covered in water.

Using buckets, water & soap, the performers in Lavagem (Portuguese for “washing”) explore the action of cleaning as a performative and political gesture. The performers produce images with bubbles, suggesting a dreamlike world, yet by its very nature the soap is also a source of frustration which stops them from staying upright. The process of scrubbing now also becomes an investigation of the identities who are cornered to perform certain tasks in our societies, something that became even more evident with the pandemic, in Brazil and beyond.

Alice Ripoll & CIA Rec dissect the polarised reality of Brazilian society where contact between different sections of the population remains extremely tenuous. The performers come from the favelas, the shantytowns within Brazilian cities, and have a very personal connection to the topic: Their mothers and grandmothers worked as cleaners their whole lives. Lavagem asks the questions: What actually needs to be cleaned? The houses, the dirt in the rooms? Or the sophisticated strategies that aim to make some people become invisible?

Credits

Director Alice Ripoll

Original idea Alan Ferreira

Performers Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Rômulo Galvão, Tony Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento

Production director

Natasha Corbelino | Corbelino Cultural Production assistant, set assistant Thais Peixoto

Artistic assistant Laura Samy

Photos Renato Mangolin

Set designer Raquel Theo Visagism

Props Cleber de Oliveira

Costume designer Paula Ströher

Light designer Tomas Ribas

Light Technician Nadja Naira

Tour planning ART HAPPENS

Supported by Rafael Machado Fisioterapia

Co-prodution Kunsten fetival des arts, PACT Zollverein,Kaserne Basel, Wiener Festwochen, Julidans, Festival de la Cité Lausanne, Passages Transfestival, RomaeuropaFestival and Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Festival d’Automne à Paris.

Special thanks Alexandre Belfort, Sulamita Costa, Juliana França, André Oliveira, Walace Ferreira, Juliete Schultz, Mauricio Lima, Pedro Bento, Thamires Candida, DiloPaulo, Diewry Patrick, Lenna Santos de Siqueira, Camila Rocha, Centro Coreográfico daCidade do Rio de Janeiro, Arnoldo Pereira de Souza, Anita Tandeta, Camila Moura, Renato Linhares, Cecilia Ripoll, Andrea Capella, Casa de Mystérios e Novidades

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Fierce Says

This was one of the first shows we saw post lockdown: so we loved the proximity of being so close to the performers, which felt like a real privilege, with the audience sat closely on all sides. They create compelling images that had us on the edge of our seat for an hour. This is the first time this Brazilian company has been to the UK - and it's long overdue! A hot ticket.

Details

Saturday 15 October 2022

7.00pm

MAC Birmingham

Sunday 16 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre

UK Premiere

Francesca Grilli (Brussels)

Sparks

Friday 14 October 2022 – Saturday 15 October 2022

Balsall Heath
Birmingham, B12 9AN + Google Map

UK Premiere. Part of our Flanders Focus, supported by Flanders House.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.
This is an 18+ event.

30 Mins £10/8

- low level lighting

Details

“I am interested in the sense of responsibility, which I put in the hands of children: their firm belief in their visions and ideas of the future. I believe in a utopia-in-the-making as a social objective, even if it remains intangible and incomprehensible.” – Francesca Grilli

How often do you completely surrender to a child?

Sparks creates a space where the usual power relationships between the child and the adult are inverted. The children become oracles; bearers of mystical knowledge; wielders of magical powers.

As you enter the space, you encounter a community of oracles, including, for the Fierce festival edition, the artist’s daughter. Their faces are hidden behind masks but you can hear their voices. How does it feel to have a child tell you your destiny?

This event is presented as part of our Flanders Focus.

This is a limited capacity event and therefore is not part of the ticket discount scheme.

This event is for audiences 18+ only.

credits
Creation: Francesca Grilli
Words: Azzurra D’Agostino
Sound: Roberto Rettura
Movements: Benno Steinegger
Hat designer and realization: Paola Villani
Advice: Chiara Guidi
Palm reading advices: Guido Rossetti
Producer: Chiara Massari
Communication: Elena Regazzoni / Studio Francesca Grilli
Administration: Chiara Fava/ Corpoceleste

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

3.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

4.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

UK Premiere

Igor Cardellini & Tomas Gonzalez (Lausanne)

The Golden Age

Friday 14 October 2022 – Sunday 16 October 2022

Park St
Birmingham, B5 4BU United Kingdom + Google Map

UK Premiere. Supported by Pro Helvetia.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.

70 mins £13/11

Details

https://vimeo.com/747997946

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

Production | K7 Productions, Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne
Production support | Arts Center Vooruit, Ghent KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels

And | Canton de Vaud Ville de Lausanne Loterie romande Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art Fondation Ernst Göhner Fondation Jan Michalski Fund culturel SSA Fondation Casino Barrière Montreux Corodis

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

12.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Friday 14 October 2022

3.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Saturday 15 October 2022

12.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Saturday 15 October 2022

3.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Sunday 16 October 2022

12.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Sunday 16 October 2022

3.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

UK Premiere

Simone Aughterlony (Zurich/Berlin)

Remaining Strangers

Thursday 13 October 2022 – Friday 14 October 2022

University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom + Google Map

UK Premiere. Supported by NPN International Guest Performance Fund for Dance and Goethe-Institut. Included in our tiered discount offer.

105 mins £15/13

- uses strobe lighting

Details

Rows of empty chairs are lit by spotlights

Smiling person in a black dress holds a microphone to their mouth. Behind them neon lights and chairs are visible.

Photo by Maxi Schmitz

A naked person wearing bunny ears is seen from behind, backlit by spotlights

Photo by Maxi Schmitz

Remaining Strangers

Remaining Strangers is the final work in a series that reflects on the notion of the ‘stranger’.

In Remaining Strangers we acknowledge the strangeness inherent in every individual, the stranger within and the emancipatory possibility of always remaining curious of the other. A commitment to remaining strangers fosters relations that are durable: the other can never be fully known, our knowledge of the other is never finished.

Those present get involved in recognisable social situations like a dinner party with a DJ and toasting farewell to the things that we have already lost. Using only foldable chairs and microphones, the artists Jen Rosenblit and Nic Lloyd, together with the musician Hahn Rowe, prepare and host an ever-changing event to welcome their guests, highlighting our infinite differences and limitations.

Credits

Performance & Creation: Jen Rosenblit, Gary Wilmes / Nic Lloyd
Concept & Direction: Simone Aughterlony
Music: Hahn Rowe
Light design: Joseph Wegmann
Dramaturgical advice: Saša Božic, Jorge León, Felipe Ribeiro
Stage design: Thibault van Craenenbroeck
Costume: Nathalie Pallandre, Thibault van Craenenbroeck
Mask: Nagi Gianni
Stage manager: Jan Olieslagers
Technical manager: Marie Prédour
Production management: Sina Kiessling
Production: Verein für allgemeines Wohl / Imbricated Real
Co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Gessnerallee (Zurich)
Supported by: City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich Culture, Prohelvetia – Swiss Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut London,
Migros-Kulturprozent, SIS – Swiss Interpreten Foundation, Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation, The Invisible Dog Art Center – New York, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ – Co-production fund for dance, funded by the federal government commission for culture and media.

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Fierce Says

Simone Aughterlony has become a firm Fierce favourite after hit shows at the festival in 2017 (Supernatural) & 2019 (Everything Fits in the Room). This time text plays a more central role, in this incredibly layered and intelligent work.

Details

Thursday 13 October 2022

6.00pm

Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

UK Premiere

Lisa Vereertbrugghen (Ghent)

SOFTCORE a hardcore encounter

Wednesday 12 October 2022 – Friday 14 October 2022

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented with FABRIC. Part of our Flanders Focus, supported by Flanders House.
Included in our tiered discount offer

50 mins £13/11

- Loud noises / music (not continuously)
- One moment of flashing lights / strobe
- One moment of complete blackout
- Use of haze / smoke

Details

Lisa sits on a stage dressed in all black with one leg slightly raised and bent at the knee and one leg beneath her on the floor.

Softcore – A Hardcore Encounter is a dance piece about hardcore techno subgenre ‘Gabber’. At 200 beats per minute this beat has been described as techno on speed: it’s the sound of the uncompromising underdog. It’s rave gone crazy. It places the body in a permanently accelerated state and can be viewed equally as part of both capitalist society and the resistance to it.

The young Belgian Lisa Vereertbrugghen has conducted an extensive examination of this form of club music over several years and explores the term hardcore with regard to the transformation, vulnerability, possibility and unpredictability that is concealed behind its stubborn convulsions and twitches. What if dancing so fast can be a way to appropriate speed not for being more productive, but for the opposite: Speed becomes a way to increase sensations and to elude control.

The audience is asked to sit on the floor, but chairs will be provided for people who prefer that. There is also room for wheelchairs.

Presented in partnership with FABRIC as part of our Flanders Focus.

Concept, choreography and performance: Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Sound: Michael Langeder
Lights: Vera Martins
Artistic advice: Madison Bycroft, Sabine Cmelniski, Nestor Garcia Diaz

Coproduction of CENTRALE FIES within the program of LIVE WORKS PERFORMANCE ACT AWARD, STUK, BUDA and BIT Teatergarasjen
With the support of CAMPO, Tanzfabrik, Workspace Brussels and SZENE Salzburg.
Funded by de Vlaamse Overheid and apap – Performing Europe 2020, co-funded by the Creative Programme of the European Union

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Fierce Says

If you liked 'Every Body Electric' in 2019 or 'PILGRIM' in 2017 then this is a show for you. Let's be honest, gabba doesn't have the best reputation amongst sub genres of techno. This performance explores the potential of the music and its hard reputation, to allow us to be a bit... softer. The gabba moves are also particularly impressive.

Details

Wednesday 12 October 2022

9.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

Friday 14 October 2022

3.30pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

UK Premiere

Soya the Cow (Zurich)

in concert

Wednesday 12 October 2022 – Saturday 15 October 2022

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Supported by Pro Helvetia and the City of Zurich. UK Premiere.

Songs performed are from the perspective of a dairy cow about animal agriculture, factory farms and slaughterhouses. Many difficult topics are sung or spoken about (but not visually shown), which are inherent to these systems.
• forced motherhood
• abuse (physical, mental, verbal, sexual)
• excessive or gratuitous violence
• animal cruelty / death
• death dying
• blood
• torture
• killing
• ecosystem destruction
• loss / grief

Details

Animal rights, climate activism, music and queer feminism – spiced up with a good dose of drag: that’s Soya the Cow. The alter-ego of performance artist, musician and activist Daniel Hellmann, who lives in Zürich and Berlin, blurs the boundaries between male and female, human and cow, and manages the balancing act between a serious desire to change the world and a humorous sense of lightness. After appearing at animal rights and climate protests, in theatres and art festivals, and most recently on The Voice of Germany, the singing drag cow shows up in Birmingham with a musical program full of emotional songs and surprising storytelling that will immerse you in Soya’s fascinating bovine universe. What would our lives look like if we stopped cutting others to pieces? Can we be free if not everyone is free? An intimate, moving and raw performance, that challenges the human self-image as the centre of the universe.

Soya the Cow performs twice for Fierce, first in an intimate concert as part of B:Music’s Musical Meetup series at Symphony Hall on Wednesday 12th October, 11am. Secondly Soya performs at Club Fierce: The Ho Down – really not to be missed!

soyathecow.com

Details

Wednesday 12 October 2022 – Saturday 15 October 2022

Various venues

UK Premiere

Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio (Paris)

Farm Fatale

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 7.45pm – 9.15pm

University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom + Google Map

UK Premiere. Performed in English. Free bus from Birmingham to Warwick Arts Centre departing at 6pm.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

90 mins £18/16

- Loud music
- Use of Haze / Smoke
- Strong language
- References to suicide

Details

A post-apocalyptic scenario in the not-so-distant future: five scarecrows, who have lost their original jobs due to climate change, come together in a commune. These disarmingly funny characters, though, are undeterred by the difficult conditions: the dying sounds of nature are meticulously recorded for posterity; demonstration signs and slogans are prepared; pop music is blown into the airwaves via pirate radio; insect deaths and pesticides are discussed.

With Farm Fatale, world-renowned French director Philippe Quesne, celebrated for his hybrid, strikingly visual performances, envisions an absurdly charming universe, inhabited by gentle dreamers and activists with a penchant for laconic commentary.

There will be a free Fierce Bus to this performance leaving Birmingham City Centre at 6pm and returning after the performance. Please RSVP to contact@wearefierce.org to reserve your place.

Credits

Concept, Set design and Direction: Philippe Quesne
Performed by: Léo Gobin, Sébastien Jacobs (part created by Stefan Merki), Nuno Lucas (part created by Damian Rebgetz), Anne Steffens (part created by Julia Riedler), Gaëtan Vourc’h.
Set design Collaborator: Nicole Marianna Wytyczak
Costume Collaborator: Nora Stocker
Masks: Brigitte Frank
Light Design: Pit Schultheiss
Sound Design: Robert Göing, Anthony Hughes
Director’s Assistant: Jonny-Bix Bongers, Dennis Metaxas
Dramaturgy: Martin Valdés-Stauber, Camille Louis

Technical and Stage Manager: François Boulet
Sound Manager: Grégory Adoir
Light Manager: Vincent Chrétien

This show premiered on March 29th, 2019 for the repertory of the Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany.

Production of the Creation: Münchner Kammerspiele – Munich and Théâtre Nanterre Amandiers, CDN.
Production of the Tour: Vivarium Studio – Charlotte Kaminski

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Fierce Says

Philippe is one of France's most acclaimed directors. The premise of this piece is melancholy personified: out of work scarecrows feeling sad about the mass extinction, try to capture sounds of wildlife, before they become lost forever. It's lots of absurd fun!

Details

Tuesday 11 October 2022

7.45pm

Warwick Arts Centre

UK Premiere

Melk Prod. / Marco Berrettini (Geneva)

iFeel2

Sunday 20 October 2019, 7.45pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with and supported by DanceXchange. Presentation supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.

70 mins

Details

Credit M. Jeanson

Marie-Caroline Hominal is Raymonda, Marco Berrettini is Taylor. A dance begins…

A young woman and a middle-aged man, half naked in a tropical dream world boasting floating plants. They are being watched. An erotic female voice sings strange associations with nature. The elegant trance they trace out is done so according to a minimalist and repetitive structure based on the residue of social dances, which are then mirrored.

Taking inspiration from the book ‘You Must Change Your Life’ by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, Berrettini revisits the age old question: why are we here, on this earth? A former student of Pina Bausch, Berrettini was the German disco-dancing champion at the age of 15!

Artistic direction and conception – Marco Berrettini
Scenography and lighting – Victor Roy
Choreography – Marco Berrettini in collaboration with Marie-Caroline Hominal
Technical direction – Thierry Court
Performance – Marco Berrettini, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Samuel Pajand
Administration and distribution – Tutu Production
Production – *MELK PROD.
Music – Summer Music
Co-production – adc Genève
Supported by Ville de Genève, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Loterie romande, DRAC Île-de-France, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, CORODIS

Fierce Says

Brilliant Simone Aughterlony (Fierce Festival 2015 & 2017) introduced us to Marco. This was the first piece we confirmed for this year’s festival, and we always knew it had to close proceedings. As the final curtain comes down and the Fierce community disperses once again join us for this near mystical performance and wonder if it was all a dream.

Details

Sunday 20 October 2019

7.45pm

DanceXchange, Patrick Studio

£12 – £10

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