In their dance production "She Legend", the choreographer duo Rykena/Jüngst (Hamburg/Munich) embarks on a search for the queer potentials of the comic world. Inspired by the visual power and the abstract, bizarre forms of expression, Lisa Rykena and Carolin Jüngst transform themselves into futuristic, cyborg-like shape-shifters. With their bodies they draw dilettante anti-heroines, megalomaniac characters and complicit heroines. With exaggerated gestures and expressive facial expressions they move through imaginary landscapes of myths, legends and apocalyptic soundscapes. They interpret superpowers with their bodies, sing of their own metamorphoses, and create contemporary mythological beings. They question their own heroine-ness and thereby embody non-conformist figures in the struggle against the norm of masculinized single heroines.
This performance will be available in our online library. Ticket-links will be available soon.
Carolin Jüngst & Lisa Rykena have been working as an artistic duo between the cities of Munich and Hamburg since 2016. In their dance productions, they roam through strip clubs, 1920s vaudeville theatres, Ovid's Metamorphoses or queer comic conventions and let mermaids, she-hulks, expressive arias, velvet stages and marble down jackets collide. Their work is dedicated to intersectional, queer-feminist, and critical discourses of the body, engaging in the transformation of normatively categorized bodies. To this end, they draw on classical, mythological, and pop-cultural materials. From these they create new figures, hybrid forms and grotesque embodiments, thereby dissolving stereotypical and heteronormative (gender) attributions.
CAST
Artistic direction, choreography & performanceCarolin Jüngst & Lisa Rykena
DramaturgyHelen Schröder
StageLea Kissing
SoundKonstantin Bessonov
CostumesHanna Scherwinski
LightingRicarda Schnoor and Joanna Ossolinska
ChoirKlub Konsonanz (Directed by Uschi Krosch)
Coordination, communication and press HamburgJessica Buchholz (STÜCKLIESEL)
Artistic production managementPam Goroncy (STÜCKLIESEL)
Press MunichKatharina Wolfrum, Martina Missel (Rat & Tat Kulturbüro)
PR PhotographyJonas Fischer
Scenic photographyDaniel Dömölky
Video, editingMartin Prinoth
She Legend is a production by Carolin Jüngst in co-production with Kampnagel Hamburg and HochX Munich. Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, the Hamburg Department for Culture and Media, the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
Thu, September 02
05:00 PM CEST
Online | Zoom | Anmeldung unter anja.kerschkewicz@hauptsachefrei.de
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August 23 —
August 26
10:00 AM CEST
Lichthof Theater, Mendelssohnstraße 15, 22761 Hamburg