Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide
(Frankfurt/München)
Crash Test V: Theater (WT)
Mousonturm Studio 2 unbestuhlt
Dance/Installation
Tickets
- 27.04.2024, 06.00 pm5 €
- —> 28.04.2024, 06.00 pm5 €
“Crash Test V: Theater” questions the supremacy of spoken theater over dance, or rather turns it on its head. Western theater tradition usually pays more attention to the text than to movement. But does the “word” really have more to say? In Paula Rosolen’s latest movement experiment from the “Crash Tests” series, the word becomes an accessory for the dance; it is torn out of context, increasingly emptied of its meaning and repeated so often that it threatens to become meaningless.
In “Crash Test V: Theater”, two dancers face each other to throw the words at each other. Their movements are sometimes synchronized, coordinated and then fall apart again. They strive for symmetry, but not without losing their balance. Their movements are bilateral, rotating, ornamental and finally increase to an almost mathematical expression. Their relationship emerges before the audience’s eyes as a fragile, dynamic affair – they show themselves to be vulnerable and resilient at the same time.
In 2022, Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide created the “Crash Test” format to facilitate encounters and dialogs between choreography and visual art. These take place outside traditional theater spaces, usually in gallery spaces, and have short production times that vary from just one day to a maximum of two weeks, depending on the project.
For “Crash Test V Theatre” (AT), Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide invites the artists Doris Dziersk (space), Daniel Conant and Chris-Pascal Englund Braun (dance) to engage in a dialog and to explore symmetry, its diverse connotations and poetry.
Duration: 80 minutes
World Premiere
Cast & Credits
Konzept, Choreografie: Paula Rosolen
Künstlerische Mitarbeit: J.M. Fiebelkorn
Entwockelt und performt von: Daniel Conant, Chris-Pascal Englund Braun
Raum: Doris Dziersk
Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide wird unterstützt durch die Mehrjahresförderung der Stadt Frankfurt. Crash Test wird vom Atelierfrankfurt e.V. unterstützt. Crash Test V: Theater (WT) wurde durch Pop-up-Residenzen im Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm entwickelt.
Biography
Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide
Paula Rosolen studied dance at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and completed a master’s degree in choreography at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In her choreographic pieces, she works along the boundaries between dance, performance, music and theater. Paula Rosolen aims to make visible the dance that is inherent to popular culture and mundane activities. These subjects are always studied from a distinct point of view and are usually set in a foreign context. In Aerobics! – A Ballet in 3 Acts (2015), for example, she dealt with this form of fitness training, which was developed for the U. S. Air Force. She was invited to show this piece at the 2016 German Dance Platform and was awarded 1st prize at international competition Danse Élargie, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Musée de la danse in Rennes. In Puppets (2016) and Punk (2018) she continue to set her focus on peripheral topics in dance – sets out in search of traces of punk rock and the research movements of puppeteers.
Paula Rosolen has had residencies at Goethe-Institute’s Villa Kamogava in Kyoto, K3 Center for Choreography in Hamburg, Workspace Brussels, Hessian State Ballet and at the Saison Foundation in Tokyo, most recently.
Her work has been shown at deSingel Arts Campus in Antwerp, Theaterfestival Basel, the Théâtre de la Ville, the Musée de la danse in Rennes, the European Festival for Contemporary Dance in Poland, the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación in Buenos Aires, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, the Sophiensæle in Berlin, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Museum Wiesbaden and Kampnagel, Hamburg.
She regularly teaches composition and dance technique at institutions such as Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Bilgi University in Istanbul, the Boston Conservatory, the Shikoku Gakuin University, the Monochrome Dance Company in Kyoto (JP), Owl Spot Theatre Tokyo, Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival and many more.
Haptic Hide receives multi-year funding from the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main and is supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.
More Information
Doris Dziersk ist bildende Künstlerin und Szenografin und lebt in Leipzig. Sie entwirft Bühnenbilder und Installationen u.a. für Meg Stuart, Moriah Evans, Matthaei & Konsorten, Doublelucky und Cathy Miliken/ Robyn Schulkowsky/ Dietmar Wiesner. Neben dem performativen Kontext entwickelt sie räumliche Konzepte für temporäre Zusammenkünfte wie „The New Infinity“ (Berliner Festspiele) und den Tanzkongress 2019. In ihren Installationen setzt sie sich mit Themen wie Materialität, Transformation und Zuhause auseinander, z.B in X-Wohnungen, beim C 60 Collaboratorium (Wissen Kneten 2014), der Münchner Biennale für neues Musiktheater, auf Einladung von raumlabor_berlin sowie dem Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik ZK/U (AIRNSHARE 2021) und in Zusammenarbeit mit Anke Philipp (u.a. STICK WITH ME, GfzK Leipzig, 2021). Doris Dziersk erhielt 2009 einen Hamburger Rolf-Mares-Preis und 2012 einen New Yorker Bessie-Award für ihre Szenographie für BLESSED.