THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER
Images: Dora Đurkesac Pictures: Dieter Hartwig
In THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE OTHER, the choreographer Ixchel Mendoza Hernández explores a body in constant flux, embodying the alterity within, reflecting upon the construction of the other and self. Inside a sci-fi sensuous installation space mixing sculptures, light, sound and AR objects, the body shifts between ambiguity and clarity: a body searching for transformation, seeking to escape and blur definitions to challenge the status quo. By provoking a contemplative space, the observer's senses get activated. What are the identity positions that emerge? What if the other and self could blend into one(s)? Inside a self(mirrored) observation, the distinction of the other-self becomes inspected, questioned, and multiplied.
Concept, Choreography, text and performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Composition and sound installation: Hyewon Suk | Light design and light installation: Annegret Schalke | Sculptures, set and visual design: Dora Đurkesac | Creative technologist: Warja Rybakova | AR installation: Dora Đurkesac and Warja Rybakova | Costume: Malena Mondéer | Outside eye: Christina Themeli, Elpida Orfanidou & Anna Weißenfels | Coproduction: Tanzfabrik Berlin | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Der Künste #Take Care with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2021) | Residency partner Tanzhaus Zürich and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2021) | Further research was made under the project “Through our gaze” supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, and “Under your Gaze” supported by Distanz-Solo with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2023) | Residency partner Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2023) |
Premiere: November 2023 Berlin, Germany
Concept, Choreography, text and performance: Ixchel Mendoza Hernández | Composition and sound installation: Hyewon Suk | Light design and light installation: Annegret Schalke | Sculptures, set and visual design: Dora Đurkesac | Creative technologist: Warja Rybakova | AR installation: Dora Đurkesac and Warja Rybakova | Costume: Malena Mondéer | Outside eye: Christina Themeli, Elpida Orfanidou & Anna Weißenfels | Coproduction: Tanzfabrik Berlin | Supported by Fonds Darstellende Der Künste #Take Care with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2021) | Residency partner Tanzhaus Zürich and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2021) | Further research was made under the project “Through our gaze” supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, and “Under your Gaze” supported by Distanz-Solo with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR (2023) | Residency partner Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin (2023) |
Premiere: November 2023 Berlin, Germany
Trailers
TRAILER (TANZFORUM BERLIN)
TEASER: CHRISTIANE SCHNIEBEL
