Choreographer, Performer
A Matter Of One's Own
Co-choreography & Dance: Lisa Densem, Manon Parent, Roni Katz
Concept & Direction: Roni Katz
Dramaturgy & Movement Development: Maya Weinberg
Stage, Set & Costumes: Xenia Taniko
Sound: Manon Parent
Light design: Annegret Schalke
Production: Annett Hardegen
Premiere 2018 / Uferstudios Berlin
Three dancers remake dance pieces that have shaped their own dance biographies into a collective embodied memoir. They speak up, not as muses or tools for the choreographer but as a force. They speak up about pain and pleasure, reflecting upon the politics of the dance world, dance education and dance making. Through personalizing these choreographies each of the dancers is rewriting and retelling herstory. In the process of coming together, the coexisting stories unfold parallels and contradictions while ultimately underlying an alliance. The work is a feminist contribution to the search for new forms of collaboration which question authorship and hierarchy and functions as a call to change power structures in dance.
Full video documentation upon request
A production by Roni Katz, supported by the Capital Cultural Fonds (Hauptstadtkulturfonds),
Research phase supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin