Choreography: Ben J. Riepe

Performers: Fa-Hsuan Chen, Deborah Gassmann, Simon Hartmann, Hyun Jin Kim, Linda Nordström, Daniel Ernesto Müller Torres

Music/Performer: João Bento

Light: Jochen Göpfert

Production Management: Maximilian Linsenmeier

Choreographer’s Assistents: Fang-Yun Lo / Elena Kofiná

Management: Jan Riepe

Irony plays with sense, rhythmical structures threaten to crumble; lies and phantasms in half-light. This stage piece for six performers creates an unstable world of interstates: ambivalent, fragile, ramified and in constant transformation. Abrupt montage and clipped images are combined with a complex arrangement of compositions. Dramatical closeness is confronted with a disclosure of theatrical means. This establishes a choreographic poetics that joins experienced proximity and reflective distance as well as art and reality in paradoxical friction.

Produced by Ben J. Riepe Kompanie, co-produced by House of Artists Mousonturm (Frankfurt Main), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), O Espaco do Tempo (Montemor-O-Novo, PT). Support: Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, Stiftung van Meeteren. In collaboration with: Artist-in-Residence Programm von Tanzlabor_21 / Tanzbasis Frankfurt_Rhein_Main.