World Premiere

Idea & development: Beate Höhn, Arne Forke, Katharina Baur
Choreography & direction: Beate Höhn
Set: Peter Wendl
Costumes: André Schreiber
Dramaturgy: Katharina Baur
Light, head of technical production: Sasa Batnozic
With: Henrik Kaalund, Johanna Kasperowitsch, Kazuma Glen Motomura, Katharina Wunderlich
Duration: 55 min.
Age: 8-11

Tue, April 21 - 6.30 PM
Thu, April 23 - 10 AM
SOPHIENSÆLE, Festsaal
in German with English surtitles

“Fit in and don’t kick up a fuss!” Four dancers (two women, two men) try to fit into the roles adults expect of children as if they were sliding into an oversized piece of clothing. They are supposed to be the quickest, the cleverest and the best behaved; and best of all, jump three years in school. But the children only want one thing: to be a child and fill their world with fantasy. They want to run around, make a lot of noise and sleep as long as they like. How can you fit that into an everyday life that’s always supposed to be organised? And how do parents deal with the situation?

Flight of Fancy or why cry shows the active search for freedom of movement. The dancers arouse our appetite for dancing and looking for solutions in a playful manner. They also show us how children can develop freely and be a part of society.

The choreographer Beate Höhn and the director Arne Forke set up the group co>labs in 1999. Their work has been awarded a huge number of prizes and for some time they have also been working with international partners. In the Tafelhalle Nürnberg they have a reliable and fixed venue. The Tafelhalle Nürnberg was set up in 2008. It is a cultural facility where different forms of performative arts can enrich and extend each other.

http://www.colabs.de/
http://www.kunstkulturquartier.de/tafelhalle/

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Melanie Suchy for "Flight of Fancy or why cry"

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