• Yvette Coetzee / wonderful catastrophe
• Christian Knieps / Photography and Performance
• Matthias Schmelmer / Organ music and Dance
• Alexandra Dederichs
• Marcus Grolle
• Eleanora Allerdings & Der Bilderberg
• Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson

Endstation Echtzeit

Zeit hat heute niemand mehr. Wir nicht. Sie auch nicht. Also fassen wir uns kurz!
,Du musst begehren. Du musst begehrenswert sein. Du musst am Wettkampf teilhaben, am Kampf, am Leben der Welt. Wenn du aufhörst, existierst du nicht mehr. Wenn du zurückbleibst, bist du tot.’ (Houellebecq, Die Welt als Supermarkt)

Dauernd gibt es etwas zu tun, zu erledigen, zu kaufen. Jeder ist busy, hat wichtige Termine, sagt „ich muß...ich muß...“. Time is Money, also los! Los! Und wenn es zu viel wird?

Endstation Echtzeit ist ein spartenübergreifendes Experiment zur Frage, wie schnell kann der Mensch werden. Zwei Schauspieler, ein Komponist/Musiker, zwei Tänzer, zwei Figurentheaterspieler, eine Ausstatterin und ein Autor erarbeiteten die Performance unter der Leitung eines Regie- und Choreografie-Teams.
Arbeitsgrundlage waren wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Zeitungsartikel und Kunstwerke zum Thema „Be- und Entschleunigung“. 

Credits

Regie: Yvette Coetzee
Co-Regie, Choreografie: Katja F.M. Wolf
Co-Regie: Eike Hannemann
Dramaturgie: Sarah Ross
Tanz: Joséphine Evrard, Clément Layes
Schauspiel: Mechthild Barth, Martin Molitor
Figurenspiel: Antje Töpfer, Florian Feisel
Ausstattung/Kostüme: Jelka Plate
Musik: Matthias Hermann
Produktionsleitung: Katja Kettner

Spieltermine

Berlin
4./5./7.-9. Juli 2009
theaterdiscounter
Klosterstraße 44, 10179 Berlin
www.theaterdiscounter.de
tickets: 030 - 28 09 30 62

Düsseldorf
7. / 9. / 10. Oktober 2009
Forum Freies Theater
Jahnstraße 3, 40215 Düsseldorf
www.forum-freies-theater.de
tickets: 0211 - 87 67 87-18

Stuttgart
13. – 16. Oktober 2009
17. Oktober (Auszüge im Rahmen der stuttgartnacht 2009)
FITZ! Zentrum für Figurentheater
Eberhardstraße 61, Kulturareal "Unterm Turm", 70173 Stuttgart
www.fitz-stuttgart.de
tickets: 0711 - 24 15 41

One night in a park

arranged and styled by Alexandra Dederichs

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 Music and Dance in Contrary Motion

For the opening of the Berlin Organ Summer 2007 the Cantor of the Church of Passion and the Church of the Holy Cross in Berlin Matthias Schmelmer asked the choreographer to create a solo performance taking place in the Church of the Holy Cross in Kreuzberg. Interested in the musical correspondance with that particular space Katja F.M. Wolf developped a choreography to Glass' early serial keybord piece 'contrary motion' for herself and Matthias Schmelmer as a musician and performer dialogueing with the organist playing on two instruments very different in scale and corresponding to the particular architecture of the church in a sensory playful way.

Credits

Performance: Katja F.M. Wolf
Organ, Performance: Matthias Schmelmer
Music: Philip Glass
Rehearsal advisor: Patricia Woltmann

Performance on June 29th 2007, 10 pm. at the Church of the Holy Cross
Berlin-Kreuzberg commissioned by the Church of the Holy Cross Berlin-Kreuzberg

Since their studies a long work relationship and friendship ties Katja F.M. Wolf with Alexandra Dederichs manifesting in many diverse collaborative projects spread out over the years. Dramaturgical advice being her main focus Alexandra contributes to Katja's project Revolve - Your Spin in early 2010. Their collaborations go as far back as 1994 when Alexandra performed in '...a notational figure' at EDDC in Arnhem. 1995 she was Katja's partner in the interactive multi media installation TESSLA`S CALLING by Kirk Woolford at the Cologne Kunstverein. Still at EDDC Alexandra co-created and danced in both BRANDWELLE and BRENNE NEUE WELLE 1997. 1999 saw the two choreographers performing a series of structured duet improvisations at the Festival de Theatre AVIGNON OFF. Later Alexandra was the dramaturgue in ad ultimo 2002, WOLF dances 2004 and View from Nowhere 2007. In 2005 she co-founded together with Esther Struck her own performance group SEE!
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Macbeth

In Grolle's 1999/2000 version of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'  Katja played the part of the Lady and one of the witches. Additionally she provided with the stage video installation.
» Video-Trailer Macbeth

Snakesongs, Salomé-fragments

In 2001 followed Marcus Grolle's staging of 'Snakesongs, Salomé-fragments' based on Oscar Wilde's play with Katja F.M. Wolf in the title role. Power, eros, cruelty and unresolved desire for material richness and spiritual purety weld together the protagonists in an unblessed mortal spiral.
» Video-Trailer Salomé

parfois l'amour, alphaville, hans-lucas lebt

The collaborative piece 'parfois l'amour, alphaville, hans-lucas lebt' by performer and choreographer Grolle, co-directed by Alexandra Dederichs and Katja F.M. Wolf who took care of the choice and arrangement of texts and the sound/music score and played a live DJ, paraphrases key-scenes of two early Godard films: 'Une femme est une femme' and 'Alphaville'.
» Press review parfois l'amour

Für die befreundete Tänzerin, Choreographin und Regisseurin Eleanora Allerdings war Katja F.M. Wolf in zwei Projekten als Tänzerin und als Videofilmerin tätig.

Wie eins zum andern kommt

3 Tanzsoli und 3 Duette, Eleanora Allerdings &  Der Bilderberg
UA 02.02. 2000, Tafelhalle Nürnberg

Creation of the Universe

Tanz-und Video-Projekt von Eleanora Allerdings im Cirque des Variétés, Liège, Belgien 1997

» eleanora-allerdings.de

Dance Alliance

After her graduation with a BA from the European Dance Development Center Katja worked regularly with American choreographer Mary O'Donnell Fukerson whose works are based on the improvisative and creative collaboration of the performers. She performed in 'Respekt', a production by Renan Demirkan staged at the Cologne E-Werk choreographed by O'Donnell. 'You, Infinite' researched the different spacial and mental dimensions from one to four using several rooms in the specifically raw environment of the tanzhaus nrw at the stage of a building site. 'Access to Idols' was an interactive performance inviting the audience by clear performative and textual structures of co-determination to become part and co-creator of the work in progress.
Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson witnessed the beginnings of Contact Improvisation and belonged to the circle around Steve Paxton and of the New York Judson Church. Later she became Head of Dance Department at Dartington College, England, then co-director of CNDO und EDDC, the Netherlands. Her approach to choreography balancing anarchy and responsability of the performer as social human being became a great inspiration for Katja's artistic thinking.

17 landscapes / hour

Group piece for 17 dance students of EDDC, choreography by Mary Fulkerson O‘Donnell, Arnhem 1994

Respekt

Multimedia-Theater by director Renan Demirkan, choreographie by Mary  O`Donnell Fulkerson, E-Werk Cologne 1997

You, Infinite

Dance Theater Installation Performance in four rooms by Mary O‘Donnell Fulkerson's Company Dance Alliance, tanzhaus nrw 1998

Access to Idols

Interactive Dance Theater by Mary O‘Donnell Fulkerson's Company Dance Alliance at tanzhaus nrw, 1999

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