Galli/Lindner/Paschke/Voigt
Fokus Tanz 
(Munich)

playing places

Concept, Direction, Choreography: Barbara Galli-Jescheck, Simone Lindner, Lara Paschke, Katharina Voigt | Music: Jakob Lakner, Leonhard Kuhn | Music engineering: Karl Muskini | Architecture Dimension Adviser: Katharina Voigt | Dramaturgical advice: Peggy Olislaegers | Performers: Eléonore Bovet, Wiebke Dobers, Chris-Pascal Englund Braun, Anima Henn, Konstantin Hoffmann, Hoyoung Im, André Luiz Pereira, Laura Manz, Lara Paschke, Jawad Rajpoot | Production management: Elsa Büsing | Technical support: Katrin Schleyer, Pauline Wessel | Photos: Uli Neumann-Cosel 

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playing places is a playful invitation to the audience to rediscover Max-Joseph-Platz together with the performers as a stage for everyone and as a meeting space. Existing structures and hierarchies are questioned and the framework they seem to provide is exploded. The square in the centre of the city, bordered by traditional cultural sites, becomes a dazzling interplay of a redefining urban society: where pigeons practice flying every day and city visitors rest on the long bench in front of the Residenz, playing places encourages people to enter into a relationship with this hustle and to experience it from different perspectives. The impulse for this festival of coming together is provided by the young audience from all over Munich and the performers, who weave together aspects of contemporary dance, performance art and street dance as well as soundscapes and live instrumental performance. 

 

Barbara Galli, Simone Lindner, Lara Paschke and Katharina Voigt develop performative interventions in public space in collective collaboration. Their individual backgrounds in contemporary dance, cultural mediation and architecture and the idiosyncrasies of their respective experiences interweave to create a multi-faceted collaborative work. Questioning existing roles and agencies is not only the theme of their work, but a central component of their collective's self-image.

 

playing places will be premiered as part of the Think Big! Festival 2022.

A public final rehearsal will take place on Thursday, 07.07.2022 at 11.00 am.

 

Supported by Fokus Tanz with funds from DIEHL + RITTER / TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. 

playing places is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, with the working scholarship in the field of dance and the funding in the field of children's and youth theatre.

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location: Max-Joseph-Platz, 80539 Munich

Premiere

Sunday, 10th July, 5 pm

35 min | for everybody

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