lautLOS1.6.
"Not knowing what happened before you were born means always remaining a child." - Cicero
lautLOS1.6 - two autobiographically inspired monologues against the disappearance of memory and the power of forgetting. An atmosphere of documentary material, memories, animations by Anna Mahendra and a stage object by miegL. A space of deconstruction and reconstruction of different life paths and the thematization of silence.
Art for all: A tactile tour takes place 45 minutes before the start of the performance as well as a closed audio description during the performance. There is a pick-up service for blind and visually impaired people from the Michaelshoven train station. Due to limited space availability, please register for the audio description at 0157 57930117 or karten@ip-tanz.com
There will also be a physical-somatic introduction 45 minutes before each performance. After the performance, the artists will be available for discussions.
Silvia Ehnis Perez Duarte / D // Mexico:Silvia Ehnis grew up in Mexico and has lived in Germany since 2012. Her family from the Stuttgart area emigrated before the First World War, returned briefly during the Weimar Republic and then stayed in Mexico for good. What traces remain when a life is continued on another continent? "My great-grandfathers Hans Duhne and Eugen Ehnis emigrated to Mexico a hundred years ago and settled in the German community. The families only experienced the Nazi regime from afar, their connection to Germany faded." Conversations with her family reveal a complex cultural heritage and connect with Ilona Pászthy's examination of "perpetrators and followers".
Ilona Pászthy / D / HU: What are the invisible traces of the past in my life? How can I track down the invisible epigenetic memories inscribed in my DNA and their significance for my identity? Feelings as a possible access to the truth hidden in the depths that seems to have disappeared.
I have been researching the unexplained spaces of my family history for several years. I have been searching for a connection between my personal experiences and the life story of my ancestors
during the Nazi era. Images of my childhood were juxtaposed with fragments of information.
In the solo, I metaphorically approach the blind spots of my memory, imprecise aspects, ask questions about identity, complicity and perpetration, origins and epigenetic traces.
traces.
Choreography: Ilona Pászthy / Silvia Ehnis / Dance: Ilona Pászthy, Diana Treder (standing in for Silvia Ehnis)
Stage: miegL / Video animation: Anna Mahendra / Music: Zsolt Varga / Technology: Garlef Kessler / Christoph Wedi Audio description: Uschi Baetz
Press excerpt:
".... Ilona Pászthy has succeeded in creatinga production thatis as complex as it is densely designed . Narrative and dance combine in an emotional moment of movement. Each of the women brings her own ideas of dance to this work. The appeal lies in the fact that they do not illustrate the stories with their actions , but simply accompany them with dance. To this end, the artist miegL has developed a semi-circular, white object that looks like a glowing spatial element in which texts and images are stored. But that is just one of the details of this fascinatingly multifaceted production." (Thomas Linden / Kölnische Rundschau 10.09.2024)
We would like to thank our sponsors: Ministry of Art and Science NRW, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, NS Documentation Center Cologne, Cultural Office Siegburg, Cultural Office Krefeld in cooperation with the NS Documentation Center Krefeld/Villa Merländer
