Hannah Shakti Bühler with Charlotte SimonWiP: Choreomaniacs

Thu 27.02.2025 | 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm
Staatstheater Darmstadt - Ballettsaal

Based on her research 'dances between order and disorder', the Frankfurt-based choreographer and dance professor Hannah Shakti Bühler explores collective dance phenomena as a medium of liberation, ecstasy and disciplining the body in her new creation 'Choreomaniacs'. For this creation, she is working with Frankfurt-based musician, sound designer and performance artist Charlotte Simon.

The work describes a journey through time that, under the term “Choreomaniacs”, recalls the dancing bodies of the medieval dance frenzy or the so-called “tarantate” from the southern Italian rituals of Tarantism and combines them with a contemporary, humorous and post-feminist view of cyborg culture. The result is a dance concert in which the audience participates in a ritual of liberation in which the archaic is combined with the digital. A ritual between order and disorder, in which the body becomes both organic matter and machine; between obsession, hysteria, humor and resistance.

As part of this work in progress performance, you will have the opportunity to get an impression of Hannah Shakti Bühler's new piece, which she is currently working on as part of her residency at Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, before the actual premiere.

Konzept, Choreographie: Hannah Shakti Bühler 
Dramaturgische Beratung: Simon Mayer 
Sound Design, Musik, Performance: Charlotte Simon und Hannah Shakti Bühler 
Produktionsmanagement: Lisa Anetsmann 
Projekt Begleitung: Karoline Wibmer 
Kostüme: Charlotte Simon 

Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, KulturAmt Frankfurt, Tanzplattform Rhein Main/Staatstheater Darmstadt.