#herland
a dance performance in an installation space
inspired by Christine de Pizan`s “The book of the City of the Ladies”
© photography Gabriele Nagel
With her daring utopias and works such as the The Book of the City of Ladies, the French-Italian writer Christine de Pizan
(* around 1364) brought the first feminist debate into play as early as the late Middle Ages. How did it develop and where do we stand today? Eva Baumann and her team follow the footsteps of the extraordinary woman and build a city of women of the present, #herland.
In an open stage landscape without a center, the worlds of experience and the poetry of Christine's are colliding with current role models, clichés and emotionally charged discourses ranging from the gender gap to #metoo. Utopias mingle with realities, documentary with fiction and the distant past with the present. In the interplay of dance, music, video projections, language and female power, new perspectives open up to the audience, which make it clear that even more than 600 years after Christine de Pizan, there are no objective truths and no simple answers.
concept, choreography/ Eva Baumann
performance/ Eva Baumann, Miriam Gronwald, Mimi Jeong, Kira Senkpiel
music and composition/ Evelien van den Broek
speaker/Kathrin Hildebrand
video, photography/ Gabriele Nagel
stage, costume design, projections on performers/ Katrin Wittig
dramaturgy/ Eva-Maria Steinel
expert advisory/ Margarete Zimmermann
light design/ Ingo Jooß
audio/ Roderik Vanderstraeten
premier
november 16th, 2018
Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart
Press reviews
Stuttgarter Zeitung here
Nomination “choreographer of the year 2018” in the TANZ magazine
” In #herland Eva Baumann keeps the performers and audience in motion around misogynistic patterns of thought as well as putting the past and present in a dialogue.”
#herland is a production by Eva Baumann, funded by the City of Stuttgart / Arts Council, the LBBW Foundation and the Stiftung Erlebnis Kunst. With kind support of the Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance Stuttgart e.V., Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Tanzbüro Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin.