Personne oder Fräulein Irgendwer

a cineastic dance installation

Ceci est une personne.
Personne n'est ici.
(French personne (f): the person or also nobody or somebody).

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Personne or Fräulein Irgendwer (Miss Anybody) explores our social media culture by looking in the mirror, always a symbol of introspection and self-affirmation - as well as self-alienation. In it, the protagonist of the surreal role-play moves between self-presentation and self-reflection.
In the soloistic experimental arrangement, the medium of film meets the possibilities of choreographic montage: the filmed gaze into the camera and the gaze onto the film give rise to a multiply fractured dialogue between the self and the desired image. In literally mirrored images and spaces, illusion and reality, private and public, ego and image oscillate.

The audience in the freely accessible stage space also becomes part of the production. For the durational performance, set up as loops connected one after the other, turns the audience into active voyeurs and involves them in the game of seeing and being seen.

Concept, choreography, dance, video, editing: Eva Baumann
Scenography, video assistance, camera assistance, costume: Katrin Wittig
Music: Roderik Vanderstraeten
Lighting design: Ingo Jooß
Choreographic assistance: Margherita Bergamo Meneghini / Barbara Conde
Graphics: Melanie Werner
Photography: Daniela Wolf
PR/Publicity: Nicola Steller

Premiere
22.09.2021
Musik der Jahrhunderte/Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Press comments

" (…) As in a huge mosaic, the movements grow together into a complex unity, creating a disarming role play with an electrifying impact."
(Alexander Walther, OnlineMerker)

"(…) While the dancer circles around a projection screen, her film double changes outfits for each encounter. Glimpses of private rooms, a mini theatre and a construction site combined to create an oppressive psychological thriller. The dance brings props from these into the present of the performance. In this complex game between seeing and being seen, the audience takes on the role of voyeurs."
(Andrea Kachelrieß, Stuttgarter Zeitung)

Personne oder Fräulein Irgendwer is a production by Eva Baumann, supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart and the LaFT Baden-Württemberg with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. The performances are supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart and with funds from TANZPAKT Stuttgart. "TANZPAKT Stuttgart" is an alliance of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart, Musik der Jahrhunderte, Produktionszentrum Tanz und Performance, Theater Rampe and the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart. Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the special programme "NEUSTART KULTUR" (BKM) and the State Capital Stuttgart.
With the kind support of Musik der Jahrhunderte and the Produktionszentrum Tanz und Performance.
An event organised by the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene gUG Stuttgart.