WOLF dances
Inspired by the fairy-tale of the little red riding hood and the wolf the performance project uses the text as a starting point for the choreographer‘s play with the motives of sexual seduction, lethal danger and the clichée of the innocent girl as opposed to the bad beast. Revealing the underlying connotations of the story with emphatic warmth and a sense of parody and humour the work mixes the commonly well-known facts with stunning dancerly re-interpretations. Working with live music and video projections, it enhances a thrilling friction between the old popular text and the cunning and poetic comments of Wolf‘s own contemporary theatre dance.
About the group piece
The tale's personnel is concentrated on the triangular constellation of the wolf, the grannie and the girl. The stage characters oscillate slightly from scene to scene. A narrator introduces them and simultaneously puts them into question, gets involved in the rush of events, embodies the wolf and the girl and thereby establishes a game of questions on stage. The spoken texts allow for a playful distance as well as for a humourous identification with the figures. Abstract dance elements dynamize a complexe narrative structure that rejects the chronology of the fairy-tale in order to research the story's central turning points from different perspectives. The wide screen video projections displaying forest, city, animals, dolls and live play localize and condense the situations in their own aesthetical language. Directed with ease and humour a performance is generated that illustrates and comments on seduction and borderline experiences integrating live drumset, dance, spoken word, sound and video.
"...Light but challenging dance theatre ...because it throws a light on the many facets of the story and magically reveals new, unexpected thematic complexes.“ (NRZ, Jan. 19 2004)
"The performance creates a feel for the craziness of the animal, the wolf in the human, and wins some disturbing moments which break up the lightness and easiness of the sequences of the scenes.“
(Westdeutsche Zeitung, 10.01.04)
"A very entertaining piece of dance theatre, light and intelligent.“
(Neue Rhein Zeitung,Düsseldorf 10.01.04)
"Surprisingly and simply different."
(Neue Rhein Zeitung,Mülheim/Ruhr 19.01.04)
Credits
Performance, direction: Katja F.M. Wolf
Choreography: Katja F.M. Wolf, Marcus Grolle
Codirection: Roland Hüve
Dramaturgy, Costume advice, light advice: Alexandra Dederichs
Percussion: Coordt Linke
Performance: Dina ed Dik (D), Emily Welther (USA), Bruno Catalano (I)
Video: Alexander Königs
Audio: Manuel Falkenberg
Light design: Ansgar Kluge
Masks: Sabsi Pies
Realisation stage design: Jupp Wagner
Dates
Jan. 8 2004 tanzhaus nrw, big stage (première)
following performances there
Duration: ca. 70 mins.
Venue
tanzhaus nrw
Erkrather Str. 33
D-40233 Düsseldorf
Production
Katja F.M. Wolf
Coproduction
tanzhaus nrw, Ringlokschuppen Muelheim / Ruhr
Supported by
Arts Foundation NRW, City of Düsseldorf, Ministery of Culture of the Federal State of NRW, Foundation van Meeteren
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