MEETING POINT 70 - a motion report

MEETING POINT 70 is the code name of a so called 'operative occurrence' of the national security agency (Stasi) of the GDR. It signifies the voluminous protocols of the Stasi about the choreographer's family in their Leipzig period. They start in 1970, the year in which Wolf was born. Together with the mother's laconic calendar notes from the same period they are the starting point of a performative research devised for several stages.

After two scenic readings in Jena and Leipzig and a public showing of the work of three rehearsal weeks at the 23rd North German Theatre Meeting in Osnabruck the full length piece premiered on September 1st 2005 on the Duesseldorf stage of the Forum Freies Theater. Mulheim an der Ruhr and Leipzig were further stations on the tour.
Katja F.M. Wolf deals in her piece 'MEETING POINT 70 - a motion report' with the vulnerability of the private sphere and the penetration of the executive power into ordinary family life.

A team of eleven different artists socialized in East and West Germany has developed a piece which approaches the still virulent German-German history as a biographic field research. The interdisciplinary work using the possibilties of dance, acting and puppetry in combination with video and sound design offers the public multiple perspectives on a thrilling narrative of childhood memories, fragments of documents and living culture.

Credits

Concept, direction, performance: Katja F.M. Wolf
Codircetion: Maren Wegner
Choreography: Katja F.M. Wolf / Marcus Grolle
Dramaturgy: Uwe Goessel
Puppetteer: Evelyn Arndt
Assistence, performance: Iris Kleinschmidt
Dance: Yasna Schindler
Performance: Fabian Sattler
Video: Thomas Achtner
Sound design: Wolfgang Rixius
Costumes: Sabine Schlunk
Light: Denise Hoppe

Dates

Sept. 1st 2005 at FFT Juta (Premiere)
following performances at FFT Juta, Ringlokschuppen Mulheim/Ruhr & LOFFT Leipzig
duration: 80 Mins.

Venues

Forum Freies Theater Juta
Kasernenstr. 6
D-40213 Duesseldorf

Ringlokschuppen Mulheim/Ruhr
Am Schloss Broich 38
D- 45479 Mulheim an der Ruhr

LOFFT
Lindenauer Markt 21
D-04177 Leipzig

Production

Katja F.M. Wolf

Coproduction

Forum Freies Theater DÃ¼sseldorf, Ringlokschuppen MÃ¼lheim an der Ruhr und LOFFT Leipzig.

Supported by

Art Foundation NRW, City of Duesseldorf, Fonds Performing Arts, Stiftung van Meeteren,
City of Leipzig

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