German Dance “Zweiland” in Festival “Europe Meets Asia in Contemporary Dance” 2015
02 and 03 Oct 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
From Goethe Institut:
Within the framework of the festival “Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance 2015”, the Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests comes to Hanoi to stage their piece “Zweiland”. The performance of the internationally successful company founded by renowned choreographer Sasha Waltz is a great highlight of this year’s festival.
In Zweiland (Twin Lands) – premiered in Berlin in 1997 – Sasha Waltz interweaves poetic images of German mythology with the music of different centuries. With humor and melancholy, the choreographer deals with the recent German history and studies in a poetic approach the theme “Images of Germany”. Social relations are shown on the interpersonal level and thus are directly experienced: togetherness and discord, despair and hope, separation and consolidation. Absurd everyday situations alternate with character studies and fairy-tale images. German songs from different centuries are interpreted by the performers themselves and let music and dance merge into one.
Sasha Waltz is the internationally most renowned German choreographer of her generation. Sasha Waltz & Guests was founded by Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig in Berlin in 1993. To date, more than 300 artists – architects, visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, singers and dancers – from 25 countries have appeared as “guests” in more than 80 dance-theater pieces, operas, films and other projects. Sasha Waltz & Guests works with an international, constantly developing network of production partners and guest performers. She has acquired international reputation for the development of innovative forms in the choreographic music theater. In 2013, her company was officially appointed “Cultural Ambassador of the European Union”.
Dancers of “Zweiland”: Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Luc Dunberry, Nicola Mascia, Grayson Millwood, Zaratiana Randrianantenaina, Takako Suzuki and Laurie Young.
The dance festival “Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance 2015” takes place from 30.9.2015 to 4.10.2015 in Hanoi and HCMC.
Free tickets in Hanoi available from 23. September, noon at:
Goethe-Institut, 56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Japan Foundation, 27 Quang Trung, Hanoi
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