BEN J. RIEPE KOMPANIE
LIEBE | TOD | TEUFEL - DAS STÜCK
SA/SAT - 27.02.2010 - 20.00
SO/SUN - 28.02.2010 - 16.00
Movement and body are being examined as if in a test tube. The subject matter is presented to us not as dance, but as research work. Riepe does not attempt to separate the mundane from the artistic. He juxtaposes classical ballet language with movements from day-to-day existence. He offers us mere gestural snippets, and provides us with no clear-cut answers, preferring to leave the presented material somewhere in a limbo between artificiality and significance. Sexuality, dependence and violence are omnipresent themes in Riepe‘s analytical laboratory-like explorations, which make the observer reflect on the existential, the inner attitudes of perception and expectation. His work is concerned with primeval feelings and impulses and this is combined with the fundamental elements of art. What Riepe presents on stage has more in common with fine arts than with formal dance conventions. Speech is used as an acoustic accompaniment, music in contrast with silence or with a vocal soundscape, and as such, produces a grotesquly glamorous athmosphere, simultaneously morbid and obscure. LIEBE | TOD | TEUFEL - DAS STÜCK is the result of the five part performance series: Liebe, Tod und Teufel - Üben Schönheit zu sehen (Love, Death and Devil - Practising the observation of beauty).
Ben J. Riepe studied dance at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen, and complemented his studies with a postgraduate degree in choreography. After working as a dancer for i.a. Pina Bausch and VA Wölfl, he has devoted himself entirely to choreography. Together with his company of twelve artists, this Düsseldorf based choreographer has created several pieces since 2004. Riepe has quickly advanced to become an internationally profiled artist. In 2009 Ben J. Riepe was chosen for the Spitzenförderung in NRW.
Choreographie | Choreography Ben J. Riepe
Tanz | Dance Fa-Hsuan Chen, Deborah Gassmann, Challenge Gumbodete, Simon Hartmann, Linda Nordström, Daniel Ernesto Müller Torres
Licht | Lighting Design Dimitar Evtimov
Ton | Sound Alex Alves Tolkmitt
Kostüme | Costume design Anna Kleihues
Produktionsleitung und Management | Production management Jan Riepe
Eine Koproduktion mit | A coproduction with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt a. M., tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf
Förderer | Supported by Ministerpräsident des Landes NRW, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, ArtSite
In Kooperation mit | In cooperation with Tanzlabor_21 / Ein Projekt von Tanzplan Deutschland
Dauer | Running time ca. 70 min.
Photographie | Photography © Ursula Kaufmann