Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr: EXPOSURE

Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal

In EXPOSURE, contemporary dance, Afro-Cuban tradition and spectacular hip-hop culture come together to the live sounds of star composer and film musician Ben Frost in a physical production by choreographic greats Julio César Iglesias Ungo and Hans van den Broeck.

EXPOSURE is the fourth world premiere of the Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr, which was founded in 2023 as Germany's first state-funded professional ensemble from the hip-hop culture. It meets the Danza Contemporánea de Cuba from Havana, a dance company known for its Cuban modern dance techniques that has been honoured with over 70 awards worldwide.

The new stage work is a radical-physical search for our primal instincts and their release. The audience experiences an immediately moving ceremony of how much nature still lives in us humans. With great physical commitment - immersed in charged and meditative sound spaces - the dancers open up an intimate view of their identity and their connection to each other. In doing so, they raise the question of what it would be like to be able to let go of masks and feel what our bodies have forgotten. Lifelines, dreams and stories touch each other and need no dialogue to be understood. The performance of EXPOSURE is a journey to the human being, to life itself, that has probably never been seen before.

Choreography: Julio César Iglesias Ungo and Hans van den Broeck
Composition and Live-music: Ben Frost

Dance:
Danza Contemporánea de Cuba Adalies Duvergel Gil
Alex Leonard Poey Reguera
Amanda Rosa Alonso Henry
Darel Morúa-Delgado Correa
Gabriela Vega Pérez
Jorge Irán Díaz Lorenzo
Yondert Dinza Mulgas
George Enrique Céspedes Aguilera

Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr
Lisha Chen
Maksim Kuznetsov
Tonia Kyriakou
Melena Tortoh
Rymon Zacherei
Jonas Krämer
Christian Zacharas
Toschkin Schalnich

Team Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr
Artistic Director – Zekai Fenerci
Assistance of the Artistic Director – Uta Graßhoff
Production management – Rebecca Bednarzyk
Head of Press and Public Relations, Marketing – Steffen Korthals

Premiere
PACT Zollverein: 6. + 7. December 2024
Theater im Pumpenhaus: 13. + 14. Dezember 2024

https://www.pottporus.de/exposure

EXPOSURE is a production by Julio César Iglesias Ungo and Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr in co-production with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, PACT Zollverein and Theater im Pumpenhaus and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Goethe-Institut Havana and the Kulturstiftung Essen. The Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the New Arts Ruhr programme and by the City of Herne.