No [‘rait] of Spring
ARTIST Josep Caballero Garcia (ESP)
A dance-Lecture about the project No [‘rait] of spring. Based on his own experience as a dancer in Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps, Josep Caballero García explores five iconic female roles of German dance history in the 70ies and 80ies. Through interviews with former ensemble dancers and music excerpts, the historic material and memories are deconstructed and then assembled on stage. Loose movement sketches are spatially composed within a changing landscape of screened video talks and sound, and create a collage of the selected roles in a form of subjective reconstruction inspired by the interviewees. Within his movement exploration, dancer Luis Alberto Rodriguez is searching for a choreographic physicality beyond gender.
The restrictions due to copyrights has substantially influenced working with the historical material and the use of original excerpts of video, movement, and music. No [‚rait] of spring indicates these gaps, but also utilizes them in order to find new ways of reconstruction. A composition of the collected material between dance performance, image and sound installation, the piece invites the audience on an associative and emotional journey through tags of memory, movement fragments and sounds, that enables everyone to find their individual access to the historical material.
Artistic Direction/Choreography: Josep Caballero García
Dance: Luis Alberto Rodriguez
Mentor: João da Silva
Co-Dramaturgy: Prof. Dr. Claudia Jeschke
Video/Space/Sound installation: Daniela Toebelmann
Sound editing: Jetzmann
Production management: Mira Moschallski
Warm thanks to Eric Miot, Jo Siska, Frank Frey und Martin Meng for their generous cooperation within the interviews and for sharing their memories! Special thanks to Tanzfilminstitut Bremen and Archiv Darstellende Künste of Akademie der Künste Berlin for their support during our research.
This production was realized within the residency program of K3 – Center for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg, with support of Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and funded by Tanzfonds Erbe – An initiative by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
A cooperation between Josep Caballero, Plataforma Berlin and Musterzimmer.