Schritt combines march and polka dance with Lena’s body parts shifting movement research. Her choreographic works aim to lighten the interstice of contradictions in our everyday life. The movement research unfolds a physical get-together of the uneven and dis-matches of parts within a body and beyond. The political weighted marching dance and its appearance on stages in middle Europe provokes and engages simultaneously; Schritt scratches at the surface of the carnivalesque smile.
Creation, performance and sound recordings Lena Klink
Light design Dennis Dieter Kopp
Schritt is a developed version of Lena’s graduation work in SEAD Salzburg, 2020. Thanks again to the director Susan Quinn and to the mentors Isaac Spencer and Janyce Michellod. Since then, her own movement research grew and took influence on this work. She could deepen her movement research, funded by Dis-Tanzen, NEUSTART KULTUR, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and by the Commissions of the Federal Government for Culture and Media in 2021. The approach of the practise body parts shifiing influenced the transformation of the march- and polka movements.
Duration: 15 minutes
Premiere 10th Mar 2022 Blank Check Festival 1, DOCK 11 Berlin
Further Show 12th Mar 2022 Blank Check Festival 1, AckerStadtPalast Berlin_
