SOMEBODY@MASCHINENHAUS 26 // EIN ABEND MIT: Grid : drift – Frederico Mendes Teixeira // Lagom – Cheng-Yang Peng

In the organizer's words:

AN EVENING WITH FREDERICO MENDES TEIXEIRA AND CHENG-YANG PENG

7:30 pm // Grid : drift (Frederico Mendes Teixeira)

"You don't know the rules, but you understand the game." This is the starting point of Grid : drift. Three dancers transform the stage into a shifting field of lines, intersections, spirals and grids that form colorful patterns on the floor. By taking up the logic of visual systems and repetitive patterns, the choreography moves between order and chance, clarity and confusion. Movement phrases combine, repeat and rearrange themselves into temporary compositions in space - sometimes precise, sometimes suspiciously chaotic. The dancers perform alone, together and occasionally against each other, following rules that have never been fully explained but somehow make sense. Structures emerge, dissolve and reorganize themselves, while systems flirt with chaos and strategies are invented on the spot. At some point, the game is over. But if no one really knew the rules... was there ever a winner?

Dance | Helena Bröker, Paul Vincent Heinrich, Nicolò Ritrovato
Choreography | Frederico Mendes Teixeira
Project assistance | Valentina Restrepo Giraldo
Duration | 30 minutes

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approx. 20:00 // Lagom (Cheng-Yang Peng)

Lagom is a Swedish word meaning "not too much, not too little, just right".

Two people wake up and get ready for their day. What begins as a simple morning routine slowly reveals something unsettling: They're not just getting ready - they're rehearsing themselves. When they meet, they try to connect. But how can you share a real moment when you're both performing? This duet explores the exhausting gap between who we are and who we think we need to be. It asks: what if what we are looking for has always been within us? Lagom is aimed at anyone who has ever had the feeling of having to be "enough".

Choreography | Cheng-Yang Peng
Dance | Feng-Ti Yang, Pier Paolo Lara
Music | Marco Girardin, The music was specially commissioned and composed for this choreography.
Stage design | Xzavier Tang
Project assistance | Ke-Chieh Liu
Photos | Ke-Chieh Liu
Duration | 30 minutes
Age | 16+
Supported by: Kulturamt Essen
Special thanks to | B:STUDIO

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somebody@maschinenhaus 26 is a project of IG Tanz Essen, co-produced with the Maschinenhaus Essen as part of the Mittelzentren Förderung Tanz und Performance and funded by the Allbaustiftung Essen.