INTO IT is a dance piece by performing:group and Marie-Lena Kaiser. Four dancers move between the stage and the audience seated all around. They explore the space, share thoughts in direct interaction with the audience, and pick up on their reactions. A play on proximity and distance begins and develops into a choreography inspired by everything that defines closeness: friction, resistance, connection and misunderstanding. This gives rise to a lively exchange that shifts the boundary between the audience and the dancers, but does not dissolve it. In the end, a shared moment emerges that invites the audience to join in the dance. INTO IT allows dance to be experienced as an open process and creates encounters. At a time when social closeness often causes unease, INTO IT invites us to approach it in a new way.
performing:group is a dance and performance ensemble based in Cologne. We work regionally and tour worldwide. Since 2012, we have been creating pieces for young and adult audiences. Playfulness, ambiguity and lasting impact are key to our work. In our pieces, we focus on lightness, irony and, at times, silly humour. We always seek a non-verbal, humorous, physically precise and sonically powerful realisation that deliberately allows for ambiguity. Since 2013, we have performed our work over 500 times in more than 20 countries and 12 languages worldwide.
accessible to
PubliC | 10+
Venue
Theater im Pumpenhaus
Duration
40 Min.
Theatre
performing:group, Cologne
www.performing.group
Production
performing:group, cologne
Choreography: Marie-Lena Kaiser
Adaptation Director: Julia Mota Carvalho
Dancers: Jordan Gigout, Kati Masami Menze, Eslam Elnebishy, Marie-Lena Kaiser
Music: Johannes Schropp
Costumes: Frederike Marsha Coors
Production Manager: Bianca Mendonça
Production: Martin Rascher
Dance Education: Sarah Modeß
Technical Director and Lighting Design: Simon Krämer
Booking: Dina ed Dik
Social Media: Regina Bensch
Performance rights held by the theatre
Co-production with PACT Zollverein, Theater Ravensburg, Maschinenhaus Essen & Ehrenfeldstudios Cologne. In cooperation with Yeah Yeah e.V.
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Essen Cultural Office, the Essen Cultural Foundation, Yeah Yeah e.V., and the RheinEnergie Foundation.
