HOW SOON IS NOW?

performing cities:

a participatory dance project

HOW SOON IS NOW? performing cities is a dance project that travels to different cities and invites interested citizens to actively participate in the artistic process. In intensive workshops, including a creative writing workshop, movement material is developed together with the DAGADA dance team. At the end, the approximately 15-25 citizens perform on stage together with the three professional dancers.

This intense aesthetic experience will be followed by a moderated audience discussion with all participants and scientific guests from the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University (CAPAS).

HOW SOON IS NOW? is the first dance production in a multi-year research cycle that takes a perspective on us individuals in the face of global problems.

The transition to the unknown is unsettling and frightening. Hesitation is the pace at the threshold. Paradoxical thoughts, a guilty conscience or ‘Now more than ever!’ alternate. With HOW SOON IS NOW?, DAGADA dance places a sensually tangible dance piece in the audience, in an open, foggy space. Three dancers and a movement choir of Freiburg citizens dance images of passivity, excessive demands, guilt, repression and beautiful islands of prosperity. The dance increasingly expands to less foggy spaces, to exchange, to question, to open up. Sound collages and light compositions create phases of perseverance in the opacity of the space, of being thrown back on oneself. A fictitious space is created in which actors and audience can sensually approach the impending paradigm shift, animate it, play through the consequences, find a new direction.

HOW SOON IS NOW? is a production by DAGADA dance company in co-production with E-WERK Freiburg e.V. and in co-operation with the Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg. Supported by the Cultural Office Freiburg and the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg. With the kind support of Aktionstheater PAN.OPTIKUM, bewegungs-art freiburg e.V., Kubus3 - Verein für Kunst, Bildung und Schule e.V. and Little Tibet Vintage.

Concept, artistic direction & choreography: Karolin Stächele
Concept, dramaturgy, text production & moderation: Sabine Noll
Dance & co-creation: Fabio Calvisi / Kirill Berezovski, Olivia Grassot, Arno Verbruggen and a movement choir with citizens of the particular city
Choreography and artistic realisation citizen project Freiburg: Luka Fritsch
Choreographic internship and assistance in the citizen project (Freiburg): Amrei Rinder, (Karlsruhe, Heidelberg:) Charlotte Spahn, Klara Baumann
Music & graphics: Paul Tinsley
Stage: Sönke Ober
Light & sound: Steffen Melch, Marvin Wöllner
Production management: Veronika Schell, Sarah Minarik
Scientific talk: wissenschaftliche Gäste CAPAS
Scientific coordination: Eva-Maria Bergdolt, Melanie Le Touze (CAPAS)