Magic on the dancefloor: Undine goes dancing – and mixes up the digital festival area! In a text, media and dance lab, four poets and the dancer Willie Stark explored the worldwide phenomenon of mythological water women, among others in the moat of Hülshoff Castle. Long before Ingeborg Bachmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff had already dealt with the Undine theme in her story Ledwina. The TanzPoeten now present a modern Undine myth, musical, poetic, danceable.
In addition to the dance realization, a text and sound collage has been created, which leads through the castle park. The staging of the four elements in sound and word is an audio walk to lie down, a poetic ritual for the ears, a meditation on sounds that touch us and remind us of the meaning of natural forces.
Sound/ text collage: Dean Ruddock/ Kinga Tòth
Direction/ Dramaturgy: Bettina Henningsen
Choreography/ Dance: Willie Stark
Dance dramaturgy: Joachim Goldschmidt
Texts by: Bettina Henningsen/ Kinga Kóth/ Karla Montasser/ Dean Ruddock.
Funded within the framework of “NEUSTART KULTUR” of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media by the German Literature Fund e.V. and by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Under the patronage of Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
WILLIE STARK 