FRAGILE 2024:
ICH KANN’S NICHT LASSEN

TANZKOMPLIZEN / Janne Gregor

• Recommended from ± 6 years
• Duration 40 min Show + 20 min Talk

Place: Pina Bausch Centre under construction, Bundesallee 260, 42103 Wuppertal

• Tickets:
• regular 18 €
• reduced 9 €
• groups of young people / schools 6 €

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Who does the stage belong to? The participatory dance piece, ICH KANN'S NICHT LASSEN is Janne Gregor’s answer to this question. In ICH KANN'S NICHT LASSEN, participation becomes a design principle. Here, the audience determines how the piece unfolds. Children aged 6 and above and adults stand on stage with four dancers and discover the Krump dance style together. They engage in a choreographic game that Janne Gregor developed in collaboration with professional Krump dancers and several Berlin school classes. Krump originated as Afro-diasporic dance culture on the streets of Los Angeles and is based on rebellion against social inequality and discrimination. For many dancers, Krump is still a place of refuge and a substitute for family. Krump stands for community. It's about showing up and supporting each other. For Gregor, who does not dance Krump herself but comes from physical theater, this is an appealing but also sensitive environment for artistic work on the subject of participation and self-empowerment. ICH KANN’S NICHT LASSEN breaks down the usual hierarchies between audience and performers and turns choreography into a lively, democratic process. Dance becomes a means of communication, and each performance becomes a unique experience that makes it possible to experience why you simply can't stop dancing (and above all, Krumping).

Janne Gregor is a choreographer and performer. She studied physical theater and completed her master's degree in choreography at the HZT Berlin in 2017. Her intergenerational and interdisciplinary works have been shown at various venues: e.g. Ruhrfestspielhaus Recklinghausen, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr Mühlheim, Nordic House Reykjavík/Iceland, Radialsystem, PACT Zollverein, TD Berlin, Donko Seko Bamako/Mali, Houseclub HAU Berlin, LOFFT Leipzig, Junges Staatstheater Braunschweig, Junges DT/Deutsches Theater, Schwankhalle Bremen. As a performer she has worked with, among others: Marina Abramović, Joan Jonas, Micha Purucker, Willi Dorner, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, Michael Vogel (Familie Flöz), Theater Strahl Berlin.

TANZKOMPLIZEN is the first venue in Berlin to produce dance exclusively and continuously for a young audience. In addition to guest performances and revivals, it regularly shows its own new productions, which are created in cooperation with various choreographers and dancers and use a wide variety of movement forms and dance styles.

• Credits:
• Artistic director, choreographer: Janne Gregor
• Dancers: Iman Gele, Baby Wave, Solomon "Big Liveness" Quaynoo, Kofie DaVibe
• Co-Creation: Queen Buckhype, Iman Gele, BabyWave, Kofie Da Vibe Musik: Moritz Thorbecke, BravoDomo
• Stage, Costume: Johanna Schraut
• Light design: Luigi Kovacs
• Dramaturgical support: Thomas Schaupp
• Assistance in choreography and production: Lena Klink
• Outside Eye: Livia Patrizi
• Audio edit: Mathias Millhof
• Production management: Sina Kießling, Thomas Dörschel

A production of TANZKOMPLIZEN in cooperation with tanzhaus nrw, funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as part of the funding program “Das Zukunfspaket für Bewegung, Kultur und Gesundheit” and take-off: Junger Tanz. The Future Package for Physical Activity, Culture and Health is a program of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ). It is implemented by the Gesellschaft für soziale Unternehmensberatung (gsub) and the SPI Foundation. The German Children and Youth Foundation (DKJS) is responsible for the “Child and Youth Participation in the Future Package” part of the program.

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