alieNation

Strangers in a world that they themselves have made

Alienation is when nothing shines, when nothing grips us,
and when nothing can put us on the ground.
(Heinz Bude)

The feeling of alienation creeps up on everyone in one way or another at some point in their lives. The lost connection to our body, to nature, to real togetherness becomes a piercing, aching void. So does alienation lead straight to dystopia? Into the quasi-bodiless society that is purely subject to the dictates of expediency and functioning? alieNation explores this complex theme visually, physically and spatially. The experimental set-up: a temporally undefined future. What is still a tendency today has reached its logical end point here. The piece unexpectedly transports a small group into a nature-like environment far from any civilisation, forcing them to rediscover their humanity. The choreographer Eva Baumann translates this play into ambivalent images that are as oppressive as they are fascinating in their beauty. Intertwined bodies form sculptural landscapes, become enigmatic hybrid objects in which the human, the animal and the mechanical are mixed. And in which the longing for cohesion shines through just as much as the fear of losing one's own individuality.

Artistic direction & choreography: Eva Baumann
Dance and Co-Creation: Aurora Bonetti, Marie Hanna Klemm, Kathrin Knöpfle, Bar Gonen
Costume: Laura Yoro
Stage: Eva Baumann, Laura Yoro
Light & Technique: Ingo Jooß, Lorenz Uhlig
Research physical collaboration: Mathilde Roussin, Rachael Mauney, Jan Jedenak, Hannah Schillinger, Priscilla Pizziol
Music: Michael Berentsen
Choreographic assistance: Barbara Conde, Sophie Gisbertz
Production assistance: Luise Leschik
Authors program booklet: Eva Baumann, Katja Vaghi, Matthias Gronemeyer
Press and public relations: Nicola Steller
Graphics: HuM-collective

Press

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”What fascinates in the production is an entirely idiosyncratic body language.”
(Stuttgarter Zeitung)


“This evening achieves a density that captivates the audience.”
(Deutsche Bühne)

”Some passages seem like the memory of the expulsion from paradise. (…). There was enthusiastic final applause for this impressive performance.”
(Online Merker)

PREMIERE
30.03.2023
further performances
31.03. and 01.04.2023
FITZ - Theatre of Animated Forms, Stuttgart

Further shows 2023
June 11th and 14th, Theater Felina Areal Mannheim (Excerpt and Duoversion)
November 18th and 19th, FITZ - Theatre of Animated Forms Stuttgart

The program booklet you can find here
(in German, English translation is in progress)

alieNation or: Strangers in a world that they themselves have made is a production of Cie. ZEIT/GEIST. Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart as part of a conceptual grant and the LaFT Baden-Württemberg with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. The research phase was funded by an individual grant from the Fonds Darstellende Künste in the framework of #TakeCare in 2021 and by NPN/Joint Adventures in the Stepping Out programme for the conception of the ZEIT/GEIST trilogy. Both programmes were funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART Kultur. Assistance Programme Dance..
With the kind support of FITZ - Theater animierter Formen Stuttgart, Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance Stuttgart, Uferstudios Berlin and Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG.