The club is the place where we meet, where people get to know each other, stage and enact. The production deals with interpersonal interaction. It focuses on the seduction of the other, the recognition and tenderness we crave and how we cross boundaries to get it. When you are young, you have to explore these boundaries, you cross borders - unconsciously, but also consciously. "Der Klub" explores the stages from harmless flirtation to the moment it tips over and turns into a threatening situation because you've let someone get too close. How do attraction and repulsion work? When does a point come where greed for recognition and love leads to loss of self and we no longer respect the boundaries of others?

 

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Premiere 23.07.2022 at Kultursommer in Wien

The creation focuses on a journey made of childhood memories (combining the experiences of the performers) that have the innocent, cathartic power to let the audience dream for a better future. Stay aims to filter everyday life issues through the eyes of a child. The result is a surreal, utopian reality. 

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Premiere 23.07.2022 at Kultursommer in Wien  

The dance of the four swans in the classical ballet "Schwanensee" was the original inspiration for this choreography, in which Joy Alpuerto Ritter works with different themes. She explores the strict synchronicity and discipline that is essential in classical dance with four urban dancers. How can the four individualists function in the group, what are their dependencies? How do the individuals come together, even if they remain true to their styles? So how can one remain true to oneself, realise oneself, if one has to function within a strict framework?



Premiere 10.09.2022 for the opening of the new season of Theater Oberhausen

 

OUROBOROS  is inspired by "Le prélude à l'après midi d'un faune", a symphonic poem by Debussy based on the poem "The Afternoon of a Faun" by Stéphane Mallarmés from 1865. Jimmy Vairon takes the mythological figures of the fauns as symbols of male youth, with unfiltered erotic desire and sexual lust. The male faun at the centre of the poem violently takes what he desires in a world between imagination and reality. Vairon explores these power structures with the dancers, placing a female dancer at the centre as the faun. He gives her the status of the superior figure. In the rehearsals it quickly became clear that the assigned status alone does not necessarily make it easier to assert it in a masculine and patriarchal environment. A tug-of-war begins.

Premiere 10.09.2022 at the opening of the new season of Theater Oberhausen
 

Nuts, cracks, palm trees, tropical feelings, movements, long legs, beauty, music, people doing things. The typical classic dance piece. Let's put it this way: The Nut and the Crack is a collision of four asteroids on stage, what happens after the collision only God knows. Come and see the disaster - that's what Los Informalls told us about their play, which was inspired by the classical ballet "The Nutcracker".



Premiere 10.09.2022 at the opening of the new season of Theater Oberhausen