The Urge
by Ceren Oran
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A Simultaneous Dance Performance for Public Spaces
Online Digital Premiere | DANCE 2021 Festival | 08.05.2021
Performances: 2021
Glockenbachwerkstatt | Munich
Kultur im Block | Munich
Import Export | Munich
White Box | Werksviertel | Munich
GIVE ME FIVE festival | Pinakothek der Moderne | Munich
Description
The Urge is a Simultaneous Dance Performance for Public Spaces Based on Lockdown Improvisations. Moves between bed and cupboard, a classic variation in front of the kitchenette. Release on the balcony. Home videos from the lockdown in Spring 2020. Soloistic. Pandemic. Uploaded to social media. There are all testimonies to the urge of the dancers and choreographers to dance and remain visible. Ceren Oran uses these finds for her performance “ The Urge” and takes it out onto the streets.
The Urge refers to the pandemic, which has held us captive for a year and a half, focusing on collective trauma and individual behaviour in it. The interaction of every individual, during a crisis experienced by the whole of society, will be looked at under a magnifying glass and transformed into choreographic pictures, which will entrance through the contrast between strong, common unanimous phrases and the resulting individual solos.
Trailer
Credits
Concept, Artistic Dirction, Choreography
Ceren Oran
Choreographic Collaboration
Maayan Reiter
Rotem Weismann
Dance
Jin Lee, Uwe Brauns, Laura Manz, Jihun Choi, Lena Klink (Munich),
Maayan Reiter, Margherita Dello Sbarba, Paula Niehoff, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Hayato Yamaguchi (Cologne),
Rotem Weismann, Lukas Malkowski, Woo-Sang Jeon, Susanna Ylikoski, Ariel Hayoun (Berlin)
Music
Hüseyin Evirgen (Electronics) Jeannot Salvatori (Saxophone), Jean Baptiste Charlot (Flute), Simon Couratier (Saxophone)
Dramaturgcal Accompaniment
Karolina Hejnova
Artistic Production Management
Rat&Tat – Kulturbüro
Production Assistance
Caroline Skibinski
Florian Greß
Technological Management
Peer Quednau
PR
Simone Lutz
Photos
Falk Kagelmacher
Alex Taylor
Duration
35 Minutes
The unison parts of the choreography are based on the lockdown videos by Phil Hulford, Sofia Pouchtou, Clementine Herveux, Elisa Ruffato, Kamola Rashidova.
This production is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the DANCE Festival Munich. Supported by NATIONALES PERFORMANE NETZ – STEPPING OUT, funded by the federal government commissioner for culture and media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Programme of Assistance Dance. In co-operation with the HochX theater and Live Art. Ceren Oran is a member of Tanztendenz München e.V.
Full Live Stream Video – Simultaneous Premiere
Behind the Process
The premiere of the The Urge took Place simultaneously in Munich Berlin and Cologne on may 8 th at the DANCE 2021 Festival. Due to the pandemic restrictions, it debuted as a digital livestream.
