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blind questions: I see you me neither (UA)

a dance film performance (lenght ca. 85min): 2 dancers and 2 actors

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«blind questions» begins as a film that uncovers a mysterious encounter which takes place in a highly confined space. Film and analytical variations ‚entwine' four performers into a new arrangement in the entanglement of coding, decoding and real time. In «blind questions», Cologne-based choreographer and media artist, Stephanie Thiersch, and her international ensemble, comprising dancers, actors and singers, have come up with a production built around misunderstandings that mix live performance with film projections and reflects the emotional and ironically broken complexity of our reality.

“The ability to productively transpose scepticism towards the alluring images and medial reality in an intelligent fashion without glorifying the assumed cathartic authenticity of the body was a feat accomplished by many artists performing at Temps d‘Images, not least of all by Cologne-based choreographer, Stephanie Thiersch, with her humorous premiere of “blind questions”.
Four magnificent artists on stage speak dialogues of hope and quarrels […].”
(Melanie Suchy, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30.01.09)

“Beguiling and enchanting refer the performer and the video again and again one on the other, even if sometimes you just see it at the flower sample of the wallpaper.” (AKT.1)‏

“The Cologne Choreographer trusts thereby in „blind questions“ […] in words, sounds, six outstanding actors and in the contrast between stage area and film.” (Tanzjournal, 2-09)

cast:

Dance/Creation: Viviana Escalé, Orlando Rodriguez, Juliana Venter, Jens Münchow, Alexandre Castres, Alexandra Naudet; DoP/camera/Light: Kathy Sebbah, Javier Ruiz Gómez; Stage: Delphine Sainte-Marie; Editor: Tom Schreiber; Video/Stage: Anja Theismann; Concept/Director: Stephanie Thiersch, Dramaturgy: Rosi Ulrich; Music/Composition: Joseph Suchy; Costumes/Accessories: Sabine Schneider; Make-up: Amélie Mateo; Technical Direction: Niko Moddenborg; Production Management: Béla Bisom; PR/Marketing: Jessica Otten, Nina Speyer/FHZ

credits:

Produced by MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch, in co-production with tanzhaus nrw in the context of festival TEMPS D’IMAGES; in co-operation with Freihandelszone – ensemblenetzwerk köln, 58Filme and DOCK 11; with kind support of PACT Zollverein. The film was created at a residence at la Ferme du Buisson, Scène Nationale de Marne la Vallée.

Funded by Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Ministerpräsident des Landes Nordrhein-Westphalen, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur, and SK-Stiftung Kultur.

trailer:

blind questions