MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch , ANGELS OF ANARCHY

Six performers confront ubiquitous authoritarian patterns. The small, everyday gestures at the contested picket fences as well as the global movements along territorial boundaries. Their bodies become protest, their voices become instruments against the control fetish, against the occupation of free spaces, and against the power of the strongest.

How can self-assertion succeed in times of colonial fantasies and abuse of power? Choreographer Stephanie Thiersch has been probing the boundaries between choreography, concert, musical theatre and installation in her works. In ANGELS OF ANARCHY, in a blend of new music, spoken word and house dance, she shows how resistance can emerge. Accompanied by Austrian author Kathrin Röggla’s stories from suburban lawns, polyrhythms, Afrobeats and South African composer and healer Monthati Masebe’s throat singing, she and her company MOUVOIR again blast away genres in ANGELS OF ANARCHY.

Internationally active German choreographer and director Stephanie Thiersch is among the most versatile in her discipline in Europe. She has served as the artistic director of the MOUVOIR company since 2000, creating more than 50 stage productions and films. She regularly experiments with the innovative use of music, whether that is with an ensemble for new music, a DJ, a string quartet, an orchestra, or traditional vocal music. She explores between the disciplines of hosting as an artistic method and at the development of choreographic-musical scores. Thiersch’s works are internationally co-produced and shown, most recently at the National Opera in Athens, at the Ruhrtriennale, at Beethovenfest, at the Cologne Philharmonic, Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, Seoul Arts Center, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Théâtre de Nîmes, Panorama Festival Rio de Janeiro, Fabbrica Europa Florenz, Ranga Shankara, Bangalore, and elsewhere. A longstanding, productive and friendly collaboration between Stephanie Thiersch and tanzhaus nrw has long since been established

Duration: approx. 70 min.
In german, english, french Languange (thc) with surtitles.
Content Note: loud music