October 18th | 18:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)
October 19th | 18:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)
Performance with audience on stage
Dance Me! is a dance marathon, a competition between two generations. The stage is an arena in which She She Pop and their guests play the roles of elders facing a group of younger performers.
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Concept/ idea: She She Pop.
Cast:
Cast in NTF: Ilia Papatheodorou, Lisa Lucassen, Santiago Blaum, Dan Belasco Rogers, Claudia Splitt, Şimal Şahin, Niki Stäudte, Zelal Yeşilyurt, Béla Weimar-Dittmar, Dream Nwattu
Artistic consultants: Laia Ribera Cañénguez, Rodrigo Zorzanelli Cavalcant
Stage design: Jan Brokof
Costumes: Lea Søvsø
Costumes assistant: Marie Göhler și Gabi Bartels
Light design: Michael Lentner
Choreography consultant: Jill Emerson
Sound by: Marius Bratoveanu
Technical director: Sven Nichterlein,
PR, communication: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Producer: She She Pop co-produced with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, FFT Düsseldorf, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the City of Berlin – Department for Culture and Europe
Duration: 1h 40 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance with audience on stage
Foreign performance
Performance in English with Romanian earplugged translation
The gap between generations, the inability to understand each other are brought to the stage and celebrated in a ritual dance. Teams take turns. Some dance, others take microphones and sing. The generations determine each other’s dances, exhaust each other, utter long series of insults, complaints and justifications to each other. Will it be a show about admiration? About gratitude? – We don’t know.
And what is a generation anyway? Is there really such a thing? And if so, what do we have to say to each other? Look, listen: this is our understanding, this is our wisdom, this is our preoccupation, this is our desire, this is our boredom, this is our blind spot. This dance step, this line-up, this line in the song, this is what they tell us: Get up, stand up/ Let me listen to the voice of your body/ Don’t stop until you get what you want/ Dance me to the end of love…!
Photo: Benjamin Krieg
