International Dance performance / Video
Tender Fights 2020
An international cooperation in pandemic times 2020-2021 / live
During a hot summer we meet in the only possible place. Held by the sea, we fight tenderly. This is not a performance. It is not a video. It is not a video of a performance. It is a performance in a video. A performance that has never happened, performed in an online format. It is a ruin of a performance, built in the ruins that are inside and around us now. We meet the audience inside these ruins and invite them to experience flickering realities and their multiplicity of time and spaces. What grows in the ruins? What might come out of these cracks and holes? It takes tenderness to fight for it. We meet you there. Welcome to “Tender Fights 2020”.
A Live international cooperation in pandemic times 2020 - 2021
WATCH
Documentary international tour
Camera: Liesa Harzer
BY & WITH
Marja Christians with Ana Dubljević and Kasia Kania
CAMERA
Ana Dubljević, Kasia Kania, Marja Christians and Liesa Harzer
EDITING
Liesa Harzer
PRODUCTION
Marja Christians/Juicy Frictions, Marijana Cvetkovic / Stancia
COPRODUCTION
STATION, Stanica Service for Contemporary Dance Belgrade/Goethe Institut and Mousonturm Frankfurt.
SUPPORTED BY
the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and by the International Coproduction Fund of Goethe-Institut. In cooperation with the Hessian Theatre Academy.
With the support of International Dance Theater Festival Lublin, Liberdance Kamenjak/Zagreb, HKD/Hrvatski kulturni dom Rijeka, JSKD and Zavod Pothos Melara, Ljubljana
SHOWS
Premiered as ONLINE video, international LIVE tour with the video in a performative installation between mountains of broken glass, a palm tree and performers dancing with the broken glass. In a subtle setting of ruins, we create a space of perception for the audience and accompany this live and digital experience between dancing with broken glass and the video of TENDER FIGHTS 2020: filmed in the empty black box and in the socialist ruins of the former capitalist Palace Hotel Haludovo. Welcome to TENDER FIGHTS 2020.
Premiere, Mousonturm Frankfurt
27.Mai 2021
Weitere Aufführungen, Mousonturm Frankfurt, online
28. + 29. Mai 2021
See video here
Theaterhaus Hildesheim, live
4. -7. November 2021
Goethe International Tour:
Kondenz Festival, BELGRADE
24. Oktober 2021
Internationales Tanztheaterfestival, LUBLIN
10. November 2021