Three people in sporty, red and blue clothes stand screaming against a cloudy sky. They are bent forward, two turn their heads towards the sky and one screams towards the ground.
© Alexandra Polina
Three people in sporty, red and blue clothes stand screaming against a cloudy sky. They are bent forward, two turn their heads towards the sky and one screams towards the ground.
© Alexandra Polina
Performance / Dance

Ursina Tossi

Hell

Touch tour and introduction in German Sign Language one hour before start.

Tickets:

18 Euro (conc. 9 Euro, [k]-Karte 9 Euro)

Info

Possible triggers: Linguistic and visual representation of moments of death and experiences of violence. The performances share strategies and revenge fantasies with the audience

Past dates

If hell were part of a man-made machine that keeps capitalism going, that reproduces dualisms, colonises, destroys and never stops growing, then... If it provokes the desire for an earlier state, turns into a fascist call for authority and, after the return of the same old thing, transforms the world into a place where neither living nor dying is possible, then... If the crises are fought with the means that cause them, then HELL would be an attempt to block and transform them. In HELL, choreographer Ursina Tossi and the dancers surrender to infernal states and translate them into an immersive composition of contemporary dance, integrated artistic audio description and German sign language. Inspired by mythological and pop-cultural concepts of hell, they stage the dance floor as an intermediate space for transformation. HELL grants access to the darkness of the cave, leads through burning rubbish dumps, through a backward-flowing waterfall into glistening light.

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Choreography, Artistic Direction, Dance Ursina Tossi Creative Production & PÖA & Placement Access STÜCKLIESEL Artistic Collaboration, Coordination Access Nona Siepmann Co-Creation & Dance Anne-Lene Nöldner, Huen Tin Yueng, Sophia Neises, Deborah Dalla Valle, Monique Smith-McDowell, Dodzi Dougban Artistic Audio Description Zwoisy Mears-Clarke Dramaturgy René Reith DGS Dramaturgy Susanne Tod Access Consultancy DGS Andzejus Voroneckis Access Consultancy AD Naomi Santo Stage Lea Kissing, Raphaela Andrade Costumes, make-up Nina Divitschek, Meret Zürcher Sound Johannes Miethke Lighting design Lars Kracht Video Friederike Höppner Photography Alexandra Polina

Many thanks to Jakob Köster and Bettina and Piet Eichblatt-Koenekopp (Oakleaf) and to the team of sign language interpreters: Anna Warler, Nicole Ostrycharczyk, Marie-Wilhelmine Schaper, Stella Papantonatos, Andy Hutchins, Jasmin Schmidt, Patricia Mell.

HELL is a production by Ursina Tossi & EXCESSIVE SHOWING co-produced by Kampnagel (Hamburg) and TanzFaktur (Cologne).

Funded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Department of Culture and Media, supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK co-production funding dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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