SOLO² 2024

Throw

An everyday, simple action becomes the medium for this performance and serves as the basis for evoking symbolic and abstract meanings. The design of these physical actions is intended to create personal or social experiences and themes for each spectator. Ultimately, the solo invites the audience to delve into the depths of their own thoughts and reminds them once again of the complexity and individuality of the human being.

Odbayar Batsuuri was born in Mongolia and completed a Bachelor's degree at the Mongolian State Conservatory and a Master's degree in choreography at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden. As a choreographer, he was invited to design the opening ceremony of the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau. He also choreographed “Falling Face”, a dynamic group piece at the Pforzheim Ballet Theater. He then created the dance film “Can I ask you that?” and the solo piece “In the inside”. With the piece “In The Inside” he received the audience award at the SOLOCOREOGRAFICO - Solo Dance Festival 2024.

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This is a dialog, a wrestling match, a love song, a warning. Between Sailor and the angel of information. There is only one question you can ask an angel: What is the value of having to repeat history if you can't do anything about it?

Caroline Beach is a choreographer and performer. She is interested in information, swimming pools, internet horror, nostalgia, evil clowns and the place where words disappear.

www.carolinebeach.com

Solo for voice 52

John Cage is considered one of the world's most influential composers of the 20th century. He was an avant-garde composer of his time and gave significant impetus to new improvisational music. The aria is composed of ten different types of singing and vowels, consonants or words in five different languages, supplemented by sounds. The notation means that no two performances are the same.

The alto Julia Böhme has become a sought-after interpreter of early music in particular, but also of contemporary music. She performs in classical, historical, modern and interdisciplinary forms of the performing arts. Her strengths are vocal beauty and expressiveness, acting intensity and versatility. In 2025, she will perform Mikis Theodorakis' “Canto General” together with the Gächinger Kantorei under Hans-Christoph Rademann.

www.juliaboehme.de

Old sisters

First the bridge collapsed, then the air was let out of the state parliament and finally researchers discovered that Dresden was completely undermined. The city was abandoned in a hurry. Everyone is gone, except for two ancient prehistoric creatures that are simply not escape animals. Completely free of temperament, they manage to stop the decay of the Elbe residence.

Marie Bretschneider advocates polite and non-judgmental interaction in everyday life. It's not easy for a woman from Dresden, but it's worth it. Because if everything is falling apart, at least we can be nice to each other. She works as a puppeteer and once studied acting.

 www.marie-bretschneider.de

ZUGÄNGE / ACCESS

Keyholes mark an entrance between two spaces: the present and the potential future space. Formally, they reflect human postures in an astonishing way. These postures are embodied by the performer, they remain as imprints in the pictorial space. In the transitions, from one freeze to the next, movement sequences unfold that trigger reflection on the social roles of women. The video is based on sculptural form decisions that negotiate the field of tension between discipline and obstinacy, as an imprint and dynamic of personal development.

Svea Duwe is a visual artist based in Dresden. During her studies of sculpture in Alfter and fine arts in Dresden and Oslo, she acquired an interdisciplinary artistic practice. She develops installations, performative video works, scenic spatial constructions, stagings and sculptural movements in public space. Her artistic work has been recognized with numerous grants and prizes, including the Kunstfonds Foundation's working grant in 2020 and the City of Dresden's Art Promotion Prize in 2022.

www.sveaduwe.de

I`m your Stalker. Looks and possessions.

“The great hunt, it makes me ache and fear! The more I plead, the less I gain.”

(William Shakespeare “A Midsummer Night's Dream”)

Have you been stalking today? People under 30 would answer “yes” to this question. Because “stalking” someone on Instagram or social media means following them and observing what they voluntarily reveal about themselves and their lives. However, the reinterpretation of the term in everyday language trivializes actual stalking.

Kathleen Gaube, born in 1967, studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy in Rostock. From 1990 to 2001, she was engaged at the Neues Theater in Halle. After the birth of her third child in 2003, she began working as a freelance actress and speaker. Since 2023, she has been artistic program director at the Societaetstheater in Dresden.

Roving Woman

Somewhere between the Clover Saloon and a place they call lonesome, John Brady’s lady leaves him for someone with a flowering vine, and John McClory’s brother comes riding into town. Carina Alison Hajek sings songs by the pioneering, experimental DIY singer-songwriter from New England, Connie Converse (1924-1974).

Carina Alison Hajek studied classical singing and languages at Sarah Lawrence College and musical theater at Circle in the Square Theatre School before landing in Dresden, where she is active as a performer, educator and singer in the band Tinted House.

 Tinted House Youtube channel 

Metal On Skin

In “Metal on Skin”, the human being is seen as an integral part of the whole, trapped in the illusion of separateness. The piece explores the idea that our consciousness makes us believe we are isolated, when in reality we are part of a larger, inseparable context. We are often trapped in a machine of repetitive thoughts and routines. The aim is to break through this illusion and find true freedom in a deeper connection with the world, ourselves and the people around us. The central message: the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Sophie Hauenherm is a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher. She completed her training at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden while she was diagnosed with incomplete paraplegia. Despite this, she decided to pursue a life with dance. Since then, she has worked as an artist throughout Germany with Gregory Darcy, Tiago Manquinho, Barbara Bruck, Tom Quaas, Wagner Moreira, the Projekttheater Dresden, Gil Kerer and the guts company, among others. At the same time, she is studying for a Master's degree in clinical psychology at the Technical University of Dresden.

 www.sophiehauenherm.com

The Percin-Show

 www.joaopedrodepaula.com

Maintenance

According to DIN 140, maintenance includes measures to delay the wear and tear of the existing wear stock. The task of maintenance therefore includes the restoration of the target condition. Systems are subject to wear and tear, and maintenance is intended to slow or prevent this.

Wiete Sommer studied fashion design at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and staging of the arts and media at the University of Hildesheim. Since graduating, she has worked as a freelance fashion designer and director for contemporary productions at the interface of art, science and business. She works interdisciplinary and co-creatively in museums, theaters, with local production companies and actors. The ability to incorporate the perspectives of different people strengthens her work as a designer.

 www.wietesommer.com

Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony