A Room without Walls

LIGNA, Alejandro Ahmed, Ghida Hachicho and Eisa Jocson

© Hanke Wilsman

A Room without Walls

LIGNA, Alejandro Ahmed, Ghida Hachicho and Eisa Jocson

‘A Room without Walls’ uses headphones to transport children between the ages of 8 and 12 on a remarkable journey. Their guides are children from the cities of Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Beirut and La Union in the Philippines. Without ever meeting in person, they have embarked on a joint investigation to find out how we can come together regardless of national borders. Now they invite other children to join them again on this exciting journey to the places where the piece was created, where they live and to routes that can only be found by those who are willing to follow what they can hear. Leading to the room without walls that can be entered from everywhere. It offers an opportunity to listen to each other, learn from one another and to move with each other.

For the children from four different time zones, the guiding question was what a shared future might look like in a world whose problems can only be solved collectively. Accompanied by a team of international choreographers, they used voice messages, sound recordings and their own experiments in choreography to look for answers and to design this imaginary special place between continents.

Infos
  • Duration: approx. 45 minutes
  • Language: German
  • for children from 8 to 12 years
  • accompanying adults can also take part with a ticket
  • the participants move around the room

World premiere
Mousonturm production in the frame of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main

Sponsors and Supporters

Idea, concept & artistic direction: LIGNA
Choreography: Alejandro Ahmed, Ghida Hachicho, Eisa Jocson
Sound design: Charlotte Simon
Dramaturgy: Anna Wagner
Mediation: Sām Sabor
Production management: Marijan Randak

A Room without Walls is a project by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, in cooperation with Zentrum Zeitgenössischer Tanz - ZZT Köln and the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, in co-production with Goethe-Institut Philippinen, Zürcher Theaterspektakel and Detmold - Kulturstadt im Teutoburger Wald.  Funded by the Jupiter - Performing Arts for Young Audiences program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessian State Ballet, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich und Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, ODDO BHF Foundation, Foundation Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main].