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nights around counting steps (and fade to black)

Nele Tiidelepp

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Performance

nights around counting steps (and fade to black)

Nele Tiidelepp

Nele Tiidelepp's performance "nights around counting steps (and fade to black)" explores the possibilities of finding and falling out of rhythm through dance and choreography. Rhythm is a way of dividing time, accompanied by emotional implications. Rhythm is a space-time continuum surrounded by beats. What happens during a beat is clear. What remains between two beats is a void that must be filled. Three performers dance, attempting to remember the past, imitating each other, moving energetically through the space, lingering, continuing and repeating. 

Accompanied by an original edm/trance soundtrack by Finnish musician Keliel, three performers descend into the night. As visibility gets thinner, shapes, shadows, repetition, synchronicities and momentum carries us through the darkness. In a resolute yet playful and gentle devotion to the repetition of the ordinary, the work waits for subtle openings to appear—moments when the impossible quietly becomes possible. 

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  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • No Language
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Barrierefreie Haltestelle
Behindertenparkplätze vorhanden
Zugänglich mit Rollstuhl
Barrierefreie Toilette
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Director: Nele Tiidelepp
Performance: Nele Tiidelepp, Antje Cordes, Liisbeth Horn
Sound Design: Keliel (Eliel Tammiharju)
Tutors: Bojana Kunst, Mila Pavicevic
Outside Eye: Shinu Kin
Costume: Eva Tarn
Producer: Kerly Ritval

Co-production: Mousonturm, Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Funded by Hessische Theaterakademie, Estonian Culture Endowment, European Union (Culture Moves Europe)

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

Biography

Nele Tiidelepp (she/her) is an Estonian multidisciplinary artist and writer who graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a degree in installation and sculpture. Her work is driven by interest in other people and social dynamics and spaces of horizontal hierarchy. She works with autobiographical materials, and looks at choreography and dancing from the perspective of an outsider, with a curious and spontaneous momentum. Tiidelepp is currently obtaining a MA in choreography and performance in Justus Liebig Universität, Giessen.