Standard
CocoonDance
CocoonDance invites you to dance. So bend down and let the ground on which you stand reflect your standardised body!
The standard dance isn't just a medium for social etiquette or the expression of a cultural conversion of desire into decency. Ballroom dancing expresses the arrangements, hierarchies and also consequently the whole brutality of civilisation and its normativity.
CocoonDance rethinks the standardised body images in standard dancing in order to overcome them. The resulting alien creatures lead us into a world of wavering elegance. The newly formed and dancing body is able to make its social construction just as conscious as our freedom to reinvent ourselves in new forms over and over again.
Cast
By and with: Cristina Commisso, Álvaro Esteban, Clémentine Herveux, Marin Lemić, Colas Lucot, Susanne Schneider // Research: James Batchelor, Fa-Hsuan Chen, Martina De Dominicis, Frédéric Voeffray, Margaux Dorsaz, Sylvia Ehnis, Manuel, Jenna Hendry // Choreography: Rafaële Giovanola // Composition: Franco Mento, Jörg Ritzenhoff // Light and Space: Boris Kahnert, Peter Behle // Costumes: Fa-Hsuan Chen // Costume design: Mathilde Grebot // Standard dance workshops: Paul und Yulia Lorenz, Randolph Han // Forró workshop: Charlotte Brohmeyer, Eduardo Lima // Dramaturgy: Rainald Endrass // Outside eye: Mélisende Navarre // Photo, Video Michael Maurissens // Press relations / Social Media: Lena Busse, Maud Richard, Fabian Uhart // Production Management: Lena Peters, Maxime Rappaz // Management, Touring: mechtild-tellmann kulturmanagement und GROUNDWORKERS (für Schweiz, Österreich, Frankreich) // Production CocoonDance Company in Coproduction with: Théâtre du Crochetan Monthey, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr Mülheim, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn