• Canan Erek / PURPLE
• Antje Toepfer - material theater
• Yvette Coetzee / wonderful catastrophe
• Matthias Schmelmer / Organ music and Dance
• Christian Knieps / Photography and Performance
• Marcus Grolle
• Alexandra Knieps
• Eleanora Allerdings & Der Bilderberg
• Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson

upside down

dance piece for a young audience

What if the world suddenly goes crazy? At once nothing is like it used to be. The emotions are all mixed up. The body and the heart is upside down.
The public enters the interior of a body to meet the four basic emotions: joy, sadness, fear and anger. Based on different unexpected situations in a child’s life the piece shows how the connected feelings interact. The young audience is invited to get a grasp on the specific emotional confusions and to experience how they can dissolve.

Credits

Concept / choreography  Canan Erek
Creation / dance  Martin Clausen, Sarina Egan-Sitinjak, Daniella Eriksson, Judith Nagel   
Voice Toni  Albert Clausen
Stage / costumes  Kerstin Laube
Music / sound design  Brendan Dougherty
Dramaturgy / text  Katja F.M. Wolf
Light design  Max Stelzl
Costume maker  Manja Beneke
PR  Yven Augustin / PR schools  Uta Eismann
Production  Inge Zysk

Dates

Première Oct. 25th 2019 10 am. Uferstudios Berlin
follow-ups Oct. 26th 3 pm. Oct. 27th 11 am. + 3 pm.
Retake 2020 at PURPLE – Internationales Dance Festival for young audiences
January 22th/23th 2020 at 10 am.

Programme note
Trailer
Press review
Interview TANZ edition 01/2020
www.purple-tanzfestival.de

Production by Canan Erek, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

In this collaboration puppeteer/ figure theater performer Antje Toepfer integrated her research on the folding and moving properties of japanese paper for which she asked Katja to find movement and theater opportunities. Both developed theatrical sketches in a performative setting together. Antje moved within the paper sculptures so that they merged material and human aspects of various interconnected theatrical figures. While Katja designed the stage light for the showing on Oct. 6th 20215 in Stuttgart, Mäcki Hamann created an invocative soundscape for Antje to swim in.

The later over-all-project '3Acts - the silent song of obstinacy' encompassed large parts of the initial collaboration. It premièred on Feb. 18th 2016 in Stuttgart, played on Feb. 18th in Leipzig and on 15th-17th of April 2016 in Berlin. After that followed multiple awards and larger tour through various festivals.

Credits

Idea, production, performance: Antje Töpfer
Choreography, direction, dramaturgy, ligh designt: Katja F.M. Wolf
Music: Christoph 'Macki' Hamann

Premiere Showing Oct. 6th 2015 at FITZ! Stuttgart

https://www.fitz-stuttgart.de/stueck/drei-akte-das-stumme-lied-vom-eigensinn/

Press review 3 Acts

Last Stop Real Time

Time is something nobody has anymore today. We not. You not. So let us be quick. 

,You have to desire. You have to be desirable.
You have to take part in the competition, in the battle, in this world's life.
If you stop you do not exist anymore. If you fall back you are dead.’
(Houellebecq, The World as a Supermarket)

Last Stop Realtime is a trans-disciplinary experiment. Two actors, two dancers, two puppetteers, a composer/musician, a stage/costume designer and an author developped the performance under the direction of a directing/choreographing team consisting of Yvette Coetzee, Eike Hahnemann and Katja F.M. Wolf on the base of scientific papers, newspaper articles and pieces of art about the theme of "ac- and deceleration". 

Credits

Direction: Yvette Coetzee
Codirection, choreography: Katja F.M. Wolf
Codirection: Eike Hannemann
Dramaturgy: Sarah Ross
Dancers: Joséphine Evrard, Clément Layes
Actors: Mechthild Barth, Martin Molitor
Puppetteers: Antje Toepfer, Florian Feisel
Stage/costume design: Jelka Plate
Music: Matthias Hermann
Production management: Katja Kettner

Tour dates

Berlin
Sat, July 4 2009 (première)
July 5 /8 /9 /10 /11  2009 at 8 pm.
Theaterdiscounter, Klosterstrasse 44, D – 10179 Berlin
info(at)theaterdiscounter.de
Tel +49 (30) 28 09 30 62

Duesseldorf
7 / 9 / 10 October 2009
Forum Freies Theater
Jahnstrasse 3, D-40215 Duesseldorf
www.forum-freies-theater.de
tickets: +49- (0)211 - 87 67 87-18

Stuttgart
13 - 16 October 2009
October 17 (excerpts at the stuttgartnacht 2009 )
FITZ! Centre for figure theater
Eberhardstrasse 61, Kulturareal "Unterm Turm", D-70173 Stuttgart
www.fitz-stuttgart.de
tickets: +49- (0)711 - 24 15 41

 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

One night in a park

A joyful one-of-experience: photographer Christian Knieps created a nocturnal setting for Katja F.M. Wolf to implement her performative instincts, her humour and playful phantasies into the mysteriously glooming sceneries in the park. The session was conceived of, arranged and styled by Alexandra Knieps, Cologne in June 2008

» christianknieps.de

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.
» 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.
» 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

Since their EDDC studies a long work relationship and friendship ties Katja F.M. Wolf with Alexandra Knieps (former Dederichs) manifesting in many diverse collaborative projects spread out over the years. Dramaturgical advice being her main focus Alexandra contributes lastly 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!

» seekollektiv.de

In collaboration with long-time friend, director/choreographer, performer and Linklater trainer Eleanora Allerdings Katja F.M. Wolf contributed to the following projects as performer and videographer.

How one leads to the other

3 dance solos and 3 duets, Eleanora Allerdings &  Der Bilderberg
premièred February 2nd 2000 at Tafelhalle Nuremberg

Creation of the Universe

Dance and video project by Eleanora Allerdings at the Cirque des Variétés, Liège, Belgium 1997

» http://eleanora-allerdings.de/https://eleanora-allerdings.de/2021/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fulkerson

https://realdancecompany.org/Mary

https://www.dartington.org/mary-fulkerson-at-dartington/