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Iván Pérez – Pollock

February 17th & 23rd, 2025 Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
June 14th & 22nd, 2025 Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
75 minutes

A Dance Analysis of Pollock

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Iván Pérez will never forget how enthralled, excited and overwhelmed he was when he discovered one of Jackson Pollock’s large scale artworks at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and how he sat in front of it for hours. With the invention of Action Painting in the late 1940s, Pollock revolutionised the art world.

In 2024, the Artistic Director of Dance Theatre Heidelberg created a multidisciplinary and choreographic dance analysis of the extraordinarily gifted artist that Pollock was. Starting in the foyer, this performance allows spectators to be immersed even before going on into Marguerre Saal, where the stage has been turned into an artist’s workshop welcoming the audience. Iván Pérez creates a choreography for bodies and movement, Yamila Rios composes a hybrid score for Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, Naomi Kean designs abstract and expressive costumes coming to life in front of Sam Beklik’s immersive set.

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Joaquín Collado – Yo florencio.

February 2nd, 2025 Zwinger 3, Heidelberg
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A Queer Body-Archive

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Spanish dancer and choreographer Joaquín Collado has much to anticipate with his new solo piece: he wants to examine dance not only physically, but also historically and theoretically. His research draws on iconic dance works, such as Mary Wigman’s Hexentanz (1929), Solo (1997) by William Forsythe or the ballet piece L’après-midi d’un faune (1912) by Vaslav Nijinsky. Joaquín Collado’s male and queer perspective as well as the written documentation of his research make this haunting solo a contemporary and dance-choreographic body-archive. Joaquín wants to know how to generate a corporeal presence that twists any conjecture about what it is, constantly evades categorization, and makes its dance a continuous blooming.

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Christos Papadopoulos / DANCE ON ENSEMBLE – Mellowing

February 1st, 2025 Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Heidelberg
March 17th, 2025 dFERIA, San Sebastián
March 20th – 22nd, 2025 Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
April 12th, 2025 Osterfestival Tirol, Innsbruck
July 1st – 2nd, 2025 COLOURS International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
July 18th – 19th, 2025 Kalamata International Dance Festival, Kalamata
March 21st, 2026 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
55 minutes

Harmony, Precision, Cohesion

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A body that is outwardly still and inwardly vibrating – what processes does the energy undergo before it breaks through? How does it change when the body matures?

In his new production Mellowing, Christos Papadopoulos embarks on his inaugural collaboration with the dancers of the Dance On Ensemble. Together they create a lively restlessness, a permanent vibration in which the spectator is inevitably involved.

Christos Papadopoulos’ works are fed by an intensely observant approach to movement and often unfold a lively and meditative power. His attention is focused on the minimal shifts of perception, the perpetual, often unnoticed and yet powerful movements that are ever-present in nature, in everyday life, within physical phenomena and political contexts.

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