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The Field

TanzPlan Ost 2020

Every two years, Tanzhaus Zürich welcomes the touring festival TanzPlan Ost, which links current affairs with cultural policy. This year’s edition deals with the theme of the periphery and places society’s edges at centre stage for once.

The Field
To Those Who Wait

The Field is a new dance collective based at Tanzhaus Zürich. The Field works with open structures and merges local and international elements. Out of creative processes emerge theatrical interventions and stage pieces that challenge the common understanding of dance. For TanzPlan Ost, The Field shows a choreography by Declan Whitaker, danced by Lucia Gugerli, who is also part of the collective, and their two guests Simea Cavelti and Celina Liesegang of the original cast.

In a world of technological dependence and decreased attention spans To Those Who Wait confronts our appetite for immediacy and overstimulation. Tongue in cheek and through a process of deceleration, The Field questions the value of our time. With a contemporary and lucid aesthetic To Those Who Wait flirts at the edge of satisfaction and pulls at the borders of refrain, striking a blow to the heart of our hyper-saturated world.

Choreography Declan Whitaker
Performance Simea Cavelti, Lucia Gugerli, Celina Liesegang

Technical director David Baumgartner
With great thanks to Riccardo Tarocco for his valuable input

Compagnie HorizonVertical
Masque-et-toi

For the company HorizonVertical, dance is the motor of artistic activity, in exchange with various disciplines of contemporary art. Léa Thomen, founder of the company, is a dancer, choreographer and visual artist, who has been living in Weinfelden TG since three years.

Inspired by the puppet Crowned Poet by the artist Paul Klee, the new solo work Masque-et-toi negotiates the complexity and contradictions of power. The figure, danced by Léa Thomen, follows a path of step-by-step transformation, dropping masks and questioning the way power is dealt with. In the confusion and mixing of fantasy and reality, Masque-et-toi develops as a choreography of gestures, postures, words and live chalk drawing on stage.

A co-production of TanzPlan Ost and Phönix Theater and Théatre - Maison D’Elsa I Cie du Jarnisy

Choreography, Performance Léa Thomen
Music Julian Julien
Szenography Xavier Thomen
Costumes Marie Thomen
Production Linda Brodhag

The Field

The Field is a collective of dance artists who have been working together since 2019. The collective has collaborated with local and international artists to create a range of works from large scale performances to intimate artistic exchanges. So far, The Field has developed works with Meg Stuart (Waterworks), Isabel Lewis (Scalable Skeletal Escalator), Simone Aughterlony (The Best and the Worst of Us) and is currently developing a piece with Ofelia Jarl Ortega.

The collective came into being from the necessity to create flexible, versatile, sensitive and enduring forms of togetherness, to find ways of articulating our cultural, social and political concerns through dance experiences. Their commitment to non-hierarchical forms of working shapes all of The Field’s artistic outputs.

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