Trajal Harrell

Caen Amour

  • Tanz im August

Dancers wearing flowing, colourful, continually changing costumes, are moving against the backdrop of an oversized doll’s house. They strike contrapposto poses. The New York-based choreographer Trajal Harrell is once more diving into the history of dance, this time into the epoch when various influences came together to form modern dance. “Caen Amour” stages a sensual meeting of the hoochie koochie – an ‘orientalist’ belly-dance like imitation from the USA – the Jugendstil icon Loïe Fuller, and Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of butoh. What emerges is a cross between a hoochie koochie show, a runway show, an installation and a dance lab.

Duration 75 Min

English

Production: Causecélèbre asbl. Coproduction: Kampnagel Hamburg, Festival d’Avignon, Theater Freiburg, Arsenic - Lausanne, Gessnerallee Zurich, ICA Boston, Kaaitheater Brussels, Productiehuis Rotterdam. Funded by: TANZFONDS ERBE – eine Initiative der Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

Magazin im August Article

"Entering the World of Butoh"

Cast

Choreografie: Trajal Harrell / Mit: Trajal Harrell, Thibault Lac, Perle Palombe, Ondrej Vidlar und einem Berliner Gast / Licht: Sylvain Rausa / Bühnenbild: Jean Stephan Kiss & Trajal Harrell / Sound: Trajal Harrell / Kostüm: Trajal Harrell & die Performer / Dramaturgie: Sara Jansen / Tourmanagement: Felicitas Willems

Dates

Past
  • Performance
    Thu 17.8.2017, 21:00 / HAU2
  • Performance
    Fri 18.8.2017, 21:00 / HAU2
  • Fri 18.8.2017, 22:15 / HAU2
  • Performance
    Sat 19.8.2017, 19:00 / HAU2
  • Sat 19.8.2017, 20:15 / HAU2
  • Performance
    Sat 19.8.2017, 21:00 / HAU2

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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