DINGSBUMS – A dance and sound performance for everyone ages 2 and up
Things are objects of great fascination. Everyday kitchen aids are often as exciting for children to explore as their colourful toys. What would it look like if this world of things came to life, to dance, to sound? tanzfuchs PRODUKTION dedicates DINGSBUMS to the metallic everyday aids in the kitchen, transforming them into a clanking orchestra: It rattles and rings, it clacks and jumps, spins around and dances. Familiar items suddenly develop a life of their own, becoming co-dancers, a mirror image. The three performers investigate, feel, experience this world of things – and they connect with them: They become extensions of their bodies, disappearing under the clothes. Things, humans, and movements magically meld, creating entirely new hybrid creatures.
Duration: 40 min.
Idea, artistic direction: Barbara Fuchs; Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff; Performance: Arthur Schopa, Michael Zier, Minju Kim; Stage: Odile Foehl; Costume: Stefanie Bold; Light: Wolfgang Puetz; Machine designer: Marc Brodeur; NRW scholarship holder for children's and young people's theatre: Isabel Bernhard; Dramaturgy: Vivica Bocks; Production management: Carina Graf; Production Assistance: Paula Cuellar; Press work: Kerstin Rosemann; Photos: Anna Rehkamper Photography.
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the RheinEnergie Foundation for Culture. Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf. DINGSBUMS is supported by Take-off: Junger Tanz, funded by the cultural office of the state capital Düsseldorf and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
