Hundertpro Festival Vol.6.1
Wahrheit & Widerspruch, Wirklichkeiten & Werte
HundertPro Festival 2024 - Truth & Contradiction, Realities & Values
The HundertPro Festival celebrates its sixth edition on August 31 and promises an extraordinary experience that transcends the boundaries of the familiar. A cross-departmental collaboration between our diverse team, this year's festival will be shaped by the profound themes of “Truth & Contradiction, Realities & Values”. The joint curation process was a creative and collaborative act in which various Ringlokschuppen Ruhr departments contributed their expertise and perspectives. In several intensive discussions, we addressed current social issues as a team.
This participatory approach has enabled us to create a program that reflects the diversity of our collective perception. Through performances, installations and conversational situations, we shed light on the different facets of truth in a time of disinformation, explore forms of contradiction in a globalized world, question our perception of realities and reflect on the values that shape our coexistence.
We are looking forward to inspiring art, exciting debates and surprising discoveries that will make you reflect and participate. Come join us!
Programme:
HABA NA HABA | Paul Damiano
Dance | Language: EN
Paul Damiano was born in 1993 in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2022, he assisted the art and culture association Do Only Good e.V. for six months as a workshop leader and choreographer in the youth project Instrument to Expression, funded by Chance Tanz. Since the beginning of 2022, he has been working as a dance mediator, dance teacher and dance educator in Wuppertal, Düsseldorf, Iserlohn and Ratingen with young people, school classes and in holiday programmes. Since June 2022, he has been an artist and dancer at Enije for Afrika e.V., based at the Theater im Depot in Dortmund, where he co-develops choreographies and performs together with the Meltingpott Crew, among others.
Artistic direction, Dance: Paul Damiano
Production Manager: Katharina Richter
Music: Eddie Ali
Dramaturgy, Outside Eye: Vivien Musweiler
Choreography: Paul Damiano, Waithera Shreyeck
Graphics, Design: Lina Thöne Mustafa Fuzer
Images, Documentation: Lina Thöne Mustafa Fuzer, Catalina Roldan
Video: Lina Thöne Mustafa Fuzer, Eric Schmidt
‘Haba na Haba hujaza kibaba’ is a Swahili proverb that is mainly taught to children at a young age to encourage them to take life one step at a time. It means that small achievements are among the great successes and goals in life! This solo piece by Paul Damiano from Kenya explores the ways in which playfulness is part of growing up and contributes to one's character and appreciation of life. The play inspires and invites the audience on a journey into the past to remember pivotal moments in their own life story! Haba na Haba is a feel-good play about Paul's very personal life story, his childhood in Kenya, memories and the playful journey of growing up.
DER PASS | Rymon Zacharei
Dance | Language: GER
Rymon Zacharei, born 1985 in Baghdad, known by the stage name ‘Rayboom’, is a dancer in the areas of hip-hop and various urban dance styles such as locking, popping and house. He has been working as a trainer, choreographer and dancer since 2005. His dance style is a combination of hip-hop elements,
various martial arts movements and contemporary dance. In 2010, he began teaching dance at Tanzhaus NRW, where he directs the new youth dance company as well as hip hop projects with young people. He is a member of the dance companies E- Motion / Renegade and a crew member of the dance group Flying Steps, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with its tour model Flying Bach. In 2017, he won the Düsseldorf state capital's sponsorship award for young performing artists. With his collective Mood Dance Company, he was invited to Berlin/Potsdam for the Tanztreffen der Jugend Berliner Festspiele 2021/22. In 2022, he presented his first solo piece, From nothing to one, in Düsseldorf.
Choreography, Dancer: Rymon Zacharei
Light and Sound Technician: Sascha Görg
The passport (Der Pass) is a very important document for most people, as it serves as official proof of identity and makes it possible to travel internationally. Without a valid passport, you may have difficulties travelling abroad as most countries require it as a prerequisite for entry. What does the blue passport mean for refugees in Germany? How is a passport designed? Which functions does a passport have?
BABYLON | Jäckie Rydz
Performance | Languages: GER, POL, ENG
A shortened version of BABYLON will be shown at the HundertPro Festival.
Jäckie Rydz studied stage design at the Berlin University of the Arts and applied theater studies in Giessen. Jäckie has performed in numerous performances and designed stages and costumes since 2019, including stage design for Kinderstar von 6-8 by Zaungäste Kollektiv at Mousonturm Frankfurt and trans/generations by Elena Rose Light at Ringtheater Berlin. As a political activist, Jäckie translated at abortions for people from Poland from 2019 to 2021, participated in the SCHLAU education program for gender and sexual diversity in 2021 and 2022 and organized a workshop for the soundlab Soundsqueer? Vienna in 2023.
Nikolas Tomislav Stäudte studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. Nikolas has worked as a production assistant, performer and costume designer for She She Pop, among others. Since 2018 Nikolas has been part of the organisational and organizational team of the short film festival hungry eyes.
Martix Navrot is a performer, queer rapper and poet, AI researcher and developer of extended reality novelties. He is one half of the queer artist duo Eternal Engine and part of the Nerdka collective. Martix works with media such as 3D, video, VJ sets, AV, VR, AI as well as with real objects or performative lectures. From 2016-2019 he was a member of the queer-feminist underground performance group Pussymantra. Current projects include Xenon Performance at Foksal Gallery Fundation, Enter The Chamber at Skala Gallery, Queer Realities (in development), Tellurian Insider Performance at S_P_I_T Queer Performance Festival. This year he was included in the list of European Change Makers of 2022, published annually by the We Are Europe - Creative Europe project.
Greta Katharina Klein works as a performance artist and producer. An interest in the design of physical-discursive spaces runs through her work practice. She is studying Applied Theatre Studies (MA) in Gießen. In 2023 she was part of the Artist Lab PRODUCING FUTURE AUDIENCES and the Academy for Performing Arts Producer #6. Together with Paula Noack she developed ‘Aufgetischt - Der Freie Szene Podcast!’. In collaboration with Theatre du Poulet and Levin Eichert, she created the participatory city walk ‘BE WATER, MY FRIEND’, which was presented at PQ 2023, among others.
Director, Stage design, Text: Jäckie Rydz
Performance, Costume: Nikolas Stäudte
Music, Performance: Martix Navrot
Production management: Greta Katharina Klein
Dramaturgy/Songbook Text: Teresa Fazan
Visuals: Mateusz Korsak
Technical guest performances: Monika Zyla
Artistic assistance Nowy Teatr: Ada Branecka
Production Nowy Teatr: Angelika Mizinska, Zuzanna Kubiak
Technical direction Nowy Teatr: Tomasz Zin
In BABYLON, three trans performers explore the possibilities of queer reproduction. With poetic texts and an immersive stage set, they recreate the biblical myth of the sinful city of Babylon. As queer bodies, they infiltrate the sacred space of the Catholic Church and assimilate its queer-hostile narratives. In three parts, they test themselves as reproductive figures of the mother, whore and bride. Multilingual in Polish, German and English, BABYLON captures the generational conflict of reproduction and scrutinises its promise of happiness.
NEON SERENADE | Benze C. Werner
Tanz | Language: GER
Benze C. Werner is a dancer and performer currently based in Cologne. Benze's work is based on an interest in movement-based live performances that incorporate sound works. Other current interests strongly related to this vision are queer families of choice, porn, politics of desire, desire and intimacy. Among other collaborations, Benze has worked with Rafaële Giovanola, Doris Uhlich, Amanda Piña, Tim Behren, Katharina Senzenberger and Özlem Alkış.
Ley Ghafouri is a sound designer, producer and live musician based in Cologne. Rather than being bound to genres, specific instruments and soundscapes, Ley's work is inspired by the needs that connect dey to the artists Ley collaborates with. Ley shifts forms, sounds and words to find ways to express their mutual longings musically.
Elin Tezel is a dancer, performer and choreographer. Elin is interested in working with face as a moving agent that brings about a strong
physical presence. Currently researching anger as a declaration of love for the oppressed. Her last choreographic project "Come Cut this
Throbbing Heart", is derived from this research, incorporating fantasies of revenge and expression of grief at the same time.
Daniela Riebesam is a dancer and performer who is currently studying in the master's program at CCD (Tanzwissenschaft). There she got introduced to the field of dramaturgy, where she likes to combine her knowledge as a dancer, producer, and scholar with her interests in queer, feminist studies, and New Materialism to support the creative work of fellow artists.
Pamela Poldo is a passionate crochet artist. She learned the artistry on the sofa with her mother, who herself learnt it from her own mother and the same going back many generations of women. Tenderness and experimentation are weaven into her patterns. No machine is able to reproduce crochet, just hands passing it to other hands. Pamela Poldo is also a dancer, a clown and a puppeteer.
Lars Ksienzyk lives and works between Cologne and Berlin. He is interested in dance as a transdisciplinary field of collective work with different materials such as film, (critical) theory, journalism, documentary, Physical Theatre and photography.
Concept, Performance, Choreography: Benze C. Werner
Co-Creation, Performance: Aleksandra Demina
Sounddesign, Composition: Ley Ghafouri
Dramaturgy: Daniela Riebesam
Outside Eye: Demetrios Navras, Katharina Senzenberger, ander ballarin
Crochet Artist: Pamela Poldo
Mentor: Sevi Bayraktar
Lights, Technical Support: Marco Wehrspann
Documentation, Photo: Lars Ksienzyk
Photo: Ley Ghafouri
Photo Editing: Fadi Elias
Inspired by gestures of affection and the steps of line dances, this choreography combines moments of togetherness and pleasure with moments of disorientation and uncertainty. Neon Serenade is a dance about cowboy gurls, the loss of intimacy and negotiations of desire. It celebrates the memories of past loves, the touch between friends and fantasies of future connections. A serenade we sing to...
BAALYA | Anand Dhanakoti
Performance
Anand Dhanakoti is a dancer and choreographer. He was trained in Indian martial arts and yoga at the Kalari Gurukulam, studied Flying Low with David Zambrano and graduated from the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg. As a dancer and co-choreographer he has worked with Matej Kejzar, Abhilash Ningappa, Adam Linder and Ursina Tossi among others. His pieces 'Baalya', ‘Kelli’, ’Thuli’, ’Kntsugi’and 'Immer' have been shown internationally. He also holds a BA degree in Economics, Political Science and Sociology from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore.
Eva Campanaro graduated from IDA Ballet Academy and SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy. Her formation got wider into the circus world in 2018 by beginning her first experience as a choreographer at Carampa (Madrid) and Arc en Cirque (Chambery). She trained with teachers and performers like David Zambrano, Julyen Hamilton, Eduardo Torroja, Jerman Jauregui, Damien Jalet, Edivaldo Ernesto, Francisco Córdova, and Fighting Monkey RootlessRoot. Since 2015, she has started working as a freelancer for international dance companies and contemporary circus projects such as NoGravity Dance Company, Cornelia Dance Company, Bellanda Dance Company.
Yeiner Chicas is a Nicaraguan performer choreographer based in Spain, he is a researcher of the contemporary scene and other artistic disciplines. Chicas has ventured into the Latin American and European continent working as a choreographer, performer and co-creator in dance and audiovisual productions with Alpo Aaltakoski, Kati Kallio , Materia Project, ADN Dialecto, Three Brothers Project, Sedimenti Project Italy.
Amogh Swamy, a writer and musician. Bestselling author of "On my way to Infinity." Music and dramaturgy: Navarasa research project (01/2023) & “Baalya”, K3 |Kampnagel (06/2023). Dramaturgical support: Prana, Shakti & Pastime Sweetness. Poems used in “Panchajanya” at Staatstheater-Kassel and “Shakti”.
Concept: Anand Dhanakoti, Amogh Swamy
Dance and co-choreography: Eva Campanaro, Yeinner Chicas, Anand Dhanakoti
Music: Amogh Swamy
Choreography: Anand Dhanakoti
Baalya is a production by Anand Dhanakoti in co-production with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. Premiere supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the City of Hamburg and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
Baalya is a movement-based piece that works with elements of circus arts, contemporary dance, improvisation and voice, inviting the audience into a multi-sensory performance based on Anand Dhanakoti's personal experiences as a street kid in the streets of Bengaluru and those of the performers trained in circus arts. It questions how movement and dance change through street experiences and turns the Indian caste system on its head by thinking of choreography from the feet up. In the Indian caste system, people are categorised according to which parts of their body they use to earn a living. The people of the lowest caste act as the feet of society.
LIKE, REALLY CUNT - HundertPro Edition | Marje Hirvonen Choreography
Performance | Language: EN
In her work she deals with themes that she can observe in they environment and that she believes have relevance in our culture. Her works are often interdisciplinary, experimental and unique. Her main medium is the body.
In 2012, she completed her Bachelor's degree in dance with a focus on contemporary dance and ballet at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. This was followed by a Masters in Choreography at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin and in Performance Making at the Goldsmiths Institute, University of London.
She has worked with Reut Shemesh, Michael Portnoy and the tanz.tausch festival, among others. Her most recent own projects are LAVATANSSIT at Galerie im Münsterland and like, really cunt, shown at tanz.tausch festival Cologne.
Choreographie, Performance: Marje Hirvonen
DJ: Aaro
Performance: Kendall Mugler
Performance: Kim Gorol
Performance: Essi Laveaux
Performance: Sophia Hanking-Eva
Like, really cunt is a safe space, a gathering, a party and a cat walk. Five different, unique performers, five biographies on a runway. like, really cunt celebrates feminine energy that reaches beyond biological bodies. Like, really cunt is a playground and a ballroom; It’s playful, tolerant - and extravagant. Invent yourself, be whatever you want to be, and you are seen!
IMPATIENTS | Charlie Wyrsch
Physical Theatre | Language: GER
Charlie Wyrsch, born in 1996 in the Ruhr area, is a performer, actor and theatre maker at the interface of physical theatre, performance, visual arts and theory. After completing a Bachelor's degree in Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Charlie is now studying Physical Theatre in Essen. They studied abroad in Prague and at the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad. Charlie's work as an independent theatre maker and performer has been shown at festivals and independent venues, including Tanzhaus nrw, Tanzfaktur Köln, Maschinenhaus Essen, SoloDuoFestival Köln, ZeitZeug Festival Bochum and Hungry Eyes Festival Gießen. Together with Meret König and Valentin Schwerdfeger, Charlie forms the physical theatre collective ‘Sticky Fragments’. So far, they have developed the plays ‘Wenn wir Glück haben, dann löst uns ganz auf’ (2021), ‘Choking on Stardust’ (2022) and ‘Try to Catch a Falling Knife’ (2023). In their work, Charlie is particularly interested in transdisciplinary work, intersectional and queer feminism and the constant re-questioning of theatre and society.
Denis Okatan (1990) studied German Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and is active as a performer and actor in the independent theatre scene. Denis Okatan has been studying Physical Theatre at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen since 2023 and is a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In 2022, Denis Okatan performed with the international live art collective United Cowboys at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne and for the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven in the durational performance ‘BIOTOPE’. Denis danced as part of an interdisciplinary Folkwang collective, including in the Oval Office Bar of Schauspiel Bochum in the immersive piece ‘SYNTHOPIA’ and worked as an assistant director in the piece development ‘(S)CARING’ by the physical theatre company KimchiBrot Connection. A particular interest of the performing arts is the representation of queer bodies and new narratives under an intersectional approach.
Joe Bauer studies fine arts in Suchan Kinoshita's class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster. Joe designs costumes for theatre and performance and has designed costumes for P14 youth theatre productions at the Volksbühne in Berlin as well as for physical theatre pieces at the Folkwang University of the Arts. In their own work, Joe creates scenarios and installations from physical costume characters and digital 3D animations.
Zoélie Guckert, born in France in 1998, studied ballet and modern dance at the Lyon Dance Conservatory and modern dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Lyon and has been studying physical theatre pedagogy at the Folkwang University of the Arts since 2021. She has worked as an interpreter for productions including Habitat by Doris Uhlich as part of the Britney X Festival at Schauspiel Köln and Die Infantin der Bandwürmer, written by Anaïs Clerc and directed by Amelie von Godin at the Folkwang University and the Ernst Busch University of the Arts.
Sofia Olivia Holz, born in 2000 in Viterbo, Italy, has been studying Physical Theatre at the Folkwang University of the Arts since 2021 after graduating in Theatre Studies and Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum. She took part in the Kunstkolleg Montepulciano and was co-organiser of the Fullspin Festival 2021.
From 2015 to 2022 she worked at the Grillo Theatre for a total of 3 seasons in the in-house development of theatre groups. In 2022 she was involved in the conception and performance of the play Happy Birthdeath. In 2023 she realised her own production: Can you hear sweat?, a physical theatre piece about female show-wrestling.
Concept, Performance, Director: Charlie Wyrsch
Co-Creation, Performance: Denis Okatan, Sofia Olivia Holz, Zoélie Guckert
Costume Design, Photography: Joe Bauer
Dramaturgic Support: Stella Ruszkowski
Light: Ferdinand Lando Vörtler
Special Thanks To: Doro Hülder
IMPATIENTS. how to make a theatre piece without being depressed afterwards? approaches the construction of madness, mental health and the pathologisation of queerness from a queer feminist perspective.
Three performers form a (movement) choir, a pathologised and pathetic body. Contradictory and unruly. A powerless and empowered body. A body that finally speaks in all its contradictions and polyphony. A body that has been patient long enough, has been patient, has been a patient.
It is an attempt to take the words that have been said about us into our own mouths and turn them around. It is an attempt to find the revolutionary power of the "disorder" without denying the pain. It's an attempt to make a piece of theatre without being depressed afterwards.
You don’t need to be fixed my queens - it’s the world that needs the fixing – Johanna Hedva
XÊR | Elvan Tekin
Tanz | Sprache: keine
Elvan Tekin (sie/ihr, Izmir 1994) ist eine in Berlin lebende Tänzerin, Choreografin und Community-Organisatorin. In ihrer Praxis navigiert sie durch die Nuancen von Identität und Körper, erobert Räume zurück und kultiviert ein tieferes Verständnis für kollektive Kämpfe. Im Jahr 2023 wurde ihre Solo-Performance „to be a fish in a raki bottle” bei den Tanztagen in den Sophiensaelen in Berlin gezeigt. Darüber hinaus ist Elvan die Gründerin und Co-Kuratorin des kuratorischen Projekts emergentspaces, das queere und trans*-feministische Perspektiven in der Diaspora in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Im Jahr 2024 schloss sie einen Master in Choreografie am HZT Berlin ab.
Saemi Jeong (sie/ihr) studiert Komposition seit 2018 bei Prof. Hanspeter Kyburz und ab 2023 Elektroakustische Musik bei Prof. Wolfgang Heiniger an der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Ihre Stücke wurden bei mehreren Projekten und Festivals (ur)aufgeführt, u.a. beim M♀ZART Kammermusikfestival, Klangwerkstatt, Berliner Lautsprecherorchester. Seit 2019 gestaltet sie mit ihren Kolleg*innen in Seoul die Konzertveranstaltung „Series of Combined Music“, bei der junge Komponist*innen ihre Werke einem breiteren Publikum zu Gehör bringen möchten. Sie ist auch als Mitglied des „Kollektiv Unruhe”, der Berliner Musiker*innen- und Komponist*innen Gruppe, aktiv.
Konzept, Choreografie, Aufführung: Elvan Tekin
Soundkomposition, Aufführung: Saemi Jeong
Bühnenbild: Camille Lacadee
Lichtgestaltung: Robert Prideaux
Kostüme: Isabelle Edi
Dramaturgie: Diego Agulló
Outside Eye: Ting An Yin
Mentoren: Ana Lessing Menjibar, Nik Haffner, Jefta Van Dinther
Eine Produktion des HZT-Berlin mit der Unterstützung von [LINK]
Mentorship in artistic practice in choreography von Jefta Van Dinther
zusammen mit Maja Zimmermann.
Gefördert durch den Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF) und die Senatsverwaltung
für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (IMPACT Förderung).
Die Solo-Performance „XÊR“ betrachtet Körper und Sprache als dynamische Prozesse bei der Konstruktion von Identität. Erforscht wird eine Stimme in stetigem Wandel, die nach neuen Bereichen der Existenz sucht. Als integraler Bestandteil dieser Suchbewegung ist sie für eine Neuausrichtung und Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts im Körper unerlässlich. Stimme definiert sich in „XÊR“ als gesprochene Sprache und als Schweigen sowie in einem erweiterten Kontext als ein Gehört-, ein Gesehen-, Verstanden- bzw. Missverstanden werden.
Moderation
Mari Volar is an international comedian, MC and event producer from Estonia. She's a regular feature on English comedy lineups across the continent and has in recent years taken part in a number of festivals (Edinburgh Fringe, Tallinn Fringe, Women in Comedy Festival Manchester). She's one of the founders of Festrogen, the first women-centric comedy festival in Luxembourg and runs regular comedy shows in Cologne with her collective Random Things Comedy.
Her comedic style is high in energy and cheerful, yet dry as she balances observational jokes against the reality of being a perpetual outsider. Mari proudly brings more feminism into her comedy and more comedy into her feminism, creating an over-the-top mix in both that simply cannot be missed. This is her fourth year at Hundertpro Festival and she's buzzing with excitement for this year's edition!
Eintritt Pay what you can (5/12/18/25€)
Ort
Ringlokschuppen | Am Schloß Broich 38 | 45479 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Eine Koproduktion von
Gefördert durch
