CROSSING THE FREEWAY is the fourth piece created as part of the Greek-German production collaboration LUNA PARK. As for “Lessen to the Fourth” (2016), “CAPTURE & discard” (2017) and “Mountains of Desire” (2018), rehearsals will take place in roughly equal parts in Athens and Berlin, thus creating a link between the dancers of the two scenes. The Berlin rehearsals will take place in the rooms of the Gesundbrunnen Elementary School in the Wedding district and will be coupled with workshops with the students. Kosmas Kosmopoulos, a choreographer and educator of schools in hot spots, tries to open up schools as places of culture and encounter and to integrate them into everyday artistic life. CROSSING THE FREEWAY, like its predecessors, was created against the background of this experience. The music is again by Antonios Palaskas, Greek electro pioneer and co-founder of the bands Stereo Nova and Supermarket. This time, the basis of his narrative, atmospheric beat is one of the first computer games, Pac-Man. But while Beckett’s “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” may sound like a digital game manual, the dancers in CROSSING THE FREEWAY ask themselves: what if there is only one (last) try? The days of failure seem numbered.
Cast & Crew
Angeliki Anargyrou, Lea Hoffmann, Maria Kandylaki, Nikoleta Koutitsa, Heun Min Kim, Nikos Evangelos Nikolaou (Dmytro Grynov), Elton Petri | Artistic direction, concept and choreography: Kosmas Kosmopoulos | Music and composition: Antonios Palaskas | Set design: Michael Graessner | Technical direction and lighting design: Andreas Harder and Dimitrios Stamatis | Text and dramaturgical advice: Kai Pichmann | Production management and communication: Michael Ludwig Tsouloukidse | Photography, video and documentation: Giovanni Lo Curto | Documentation: Gm Touliatou
Dates
September 27, 2019, 19:00
September 28, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
September 29, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
& DANCING SCOUT wrap-up “dance//think” with Amelie Mallmann following the performance on Sept. 28, 2019.
UFER_STUDIOS (Studio 14)
Badstr. 41a, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstraße, U9 Nauener Platz, S-Bahn Gesundbrunnen
Production
Initiative LUNA PARK and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in collaboration with Gesundbrunnen Elementary School, supported within the project “ANPASSUNGEN” by funding from the project fund of QM Badstraße as part of the federal program “Soziale Stadt.”
