ELLA

Four performers move through a stage set consisting of a stove, bathtub, wooden floorboards and other pieces of furniture, creating a scene in which people and memories appear and disappear. The starting point is an interview with Ella Weber (1915-2015), a worker, mother and grandmother from the Palatinate region of Germany, who looks back on a century of life with humour and dignity. The performance combines dance, text, percussion and documentary audio recordings into a multi-layered interplay of movement, language and sound. As if in a dream, we follow the puzzle of images in which humour and tragedy come together with strange ease. Atmospheric, sombre, rebellious and warm-hearted.

ELLA is a play about the power of grandmothers. About home and foreign lands, about female life plans and the pace of the world. It reflects on gender roles and resilience: what ideas about femininity, origin and family have become ingrained in our bodies? Which ‘grandmotherly qualities’ do we want to take with us today, and which do we want to overcome? A piece that rolls up its sleeves. That tackles, tidies up, airs out.

From 12 years.

Individual passages in German, no language barrier.

Duration: approx. 75 minutes.

Acoustic stimuli: The show involves loud music and loud sounds.

“Unique fusion of tap dance and contemporary dance.”
Wiebke Hüster, Frankfurter Allgemeine
 

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