Fabrice Mazliah/MAMAZA/MichaelDouglas Kollektiv
(Frankfurt/CH/GR/IL/DE)
Telling Stories
Mousonturm Saal
Performance/Dance
- 19.12.2015, 20.00 Uhr€ 19,- / erm. € 9,-, Telling Stories - Künstlergespräch im Anschluss
- 18.12.2015, 20.00 Uhr€ 19,- / erm. € 9,-, Telling Stories - Uraufführung
- 20.12.2015, 6 p.m.€ 19,- / red. € 9,-, Telling stories - Warm-up at 5 p.m.
In his extraordinary choreographies, Fabrice Mazliah – co-founder of the collective MAMAZA and former Forsythe dancer – sets thoughts in motion. He is above all interested in transgressing boundaries and in the highly dynamic interactions that always arise when people attempt to make sense of contradictory sensations. In Telling Stories, he now challenges the inventiveness of our sense of perception in collaboration with dancers of the Cologne-based MichaelDouglas Kollektiv. Bodies, space and actions are in constant motion and transformation, interweaving in an artful narrative thread into a complex communicative system, in which the audience play just as important a role as the dancers themselves.
Mousonturm-Coproduction * Concept: Fabrice Mazliah * Choreography: Fabrice Mazliah in collaboration with the dancers * With Michael Maurissens, Douglas Bateman, Inma Rubio, Susanne
Grau, Adam Ster, Katja Cheraneva * Dramaturcical assistance: May Zarhy * Sound: Johannes Helberger * Technical director: Harry Schulz * Costumes: Anne-Marie Miene * Production manager: Johanna Milz * Production: MAMAZA and MichaelDouglas Kollektiv * Co-production: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm * Funded by: Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Kunststiftung nrw, Nationales Performance Netz, Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft
und Kunst * Made possible by Tanzlabor 21 / Tanzbasis Frankfurt Rhein-Main.
Premiere
Biography
Fabrice Mazliah
Fabrice Mazliah is a choreographer and performer based in Frankfurt / Main. Having collaborated and produced works with the Forsythe Company until its closure, Fabrice has initiated a long-term research into the embodied knowledge and heritage inscribed into practitioners in the field. He is interested in understanding and renegotiating the relationship between our environment, its objects, its atmospheres, and our bodies, ourselves and its potentialities. In his works, he regularly places the role of the receiver/perceiver in the centre of attention and celebrates the richness of possible perspectives that can be embodied on stage. His pieces provoke the collision of experiences and challenge binary views – allowing for a moment of suspension between the instants of perception and interpretation. He is interested in combining movement with language, in developing new forms of narrativity and poetry.
Biography
MAMAZA
www.mamaza.net
MAMAZA steht für Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah und May Zarhy. 2007 begann die enge Zusammenarbeit der drei Choreografen und Tänzer, die alle in verschiedenen Kontexten der Forsythe Company verbunden sind. In ihren Arbeiten kreieren MAMAZA einen choreografischen Raum, der die Spannung zwischen dem visuellen Bild und dem physischen Befinden, das es im Zuschauer erzeugt, in Frage stellt. Ihre Zusammenarbeit sieht das Kollektiv nicht als künstlerischen Kompromiss, sondern im kontinuierlichen Austausch, Befragen und Erproben vielmehr als Rückbesinnung auf die Quintessenz, die ein Stück ausmacht. Zwischen 2012 und 2014 waren MAMAZA im Rahmen der Doppelpass-Förderung durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes Artists in Residence am Mousonturm.