All that I left behind is here
Imagine a photo of a family of four. Beginning of the 1990s, in early spring. They are standing next to each other on the soon-to-be-green bank of the Oder River, looking into the camera. They are all wearing the same looking, brand-new windbreaker jackets in colours blending into the landscape of a dirty urban springtime – grey for the father, purple for the mother, red-blue and gray-brown for the sons. Everyone seems happy, except for the youngest son – his sour face clearly expresses embarrassment and disappointment as if he would rather be somewhere else.
Romuald Krezel’s new solo draws from his personal and artistic experience. By revisiting his very first dance experience in life: a Ballroom Dance course – the only one offered for free in his primary school, he intends to focus on various aspects of classism in the performing arts context. By re-learning and critically evoking movements, steps, poses and different styles of Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Jive, etc, he attempts to investigate his social-class background and its relation to his current choreographic practice. The ghostly figures, post-punk music and aesthetics will support him in this return to his past.
All that I left behind is here
PREMIERE AND SHOWS
PREMIERE:
2 June 2023 Uferstudios, Berlin
3 June 2023 Uferstudios, Berlin
4 June 2023 Uferstudios, Berlin
16 September 2023 HELLERAU, Dresden
17 September 2023 HELLERAU, Dresden
CREDITS
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY and PERFORMANCE: Romuald Krezel
DRAMATURGY: Agata Siniarska
RESEARCH SUPPORT: Tamara Antonijević
COSTUME: Maldoror
TECHNICAL DIRECTION, LIGHT DESIGN: Patrick Faurot
SOUND DESIGN and MUSIC DIRECTION: Miguel Caldas
SOUND DESIGN ASSISTANT: Zach Hart
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT: Louis Felipe Baca Velásquez
PRESS WORK: Kerstin Böttcher
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: Emmilou Roessling, Silja Korn
PRODUCTION: Anna Konrad
ARTISTIC SUPPORT: Carolina Mendonça and
René Alejandro Huari Mateus
PHOTO: Marina Hoppmann
TRAILER: Andrea Keiz
FUNDED BY
A production by Romuald Krezel in co-production with Uferstudios in Berlin and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts in Dresden. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by the Residency Program funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Station - Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade/Serbia, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. With the friendly support of Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.
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Date
April 28, 2023
