Minotaurus
Electronic music (2012)
Stage music for the choreography by Andrea Simon
Premiere
Stadthalle Hofheim/Ts. 15.11.2012
Subsequent performances
Gallus-Theater, Frankfurt a. M.
Final performance:
Stadthalle Hofheim/Ts.
12.11.2013 [more ...]
TANZPLAN® LebenkomischTod 2012/13 – Dance theater and film
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Minotaurus
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Nicks Geschick
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Ente, Tod und Tulpe
"Minotaurus is a choreographic staging about the strategic varieties of a bullying situation. As an example, 4 children act here, who meet in a children’s room. Three children turn against the girl who joined last; they play out all kinds of direct and indirect bullying. The group gradually plans her exclusion. The victim plays into their hands.
Driven away from the group’s children’s room into imaginary, labyrinthine, inner loneliness, the bullied girl experiences the Kafkaesque transformation of childlike innocence and despair into the animalistic, furious and monstrous. She becomes the Minotaur, lonely, different, aggressive, yet remains childlike. Even in this state she waits for playmates. The three perpetrator children one after another penetrate into her labyrinth. A destructive process takes its course. In the end, all are victims of their lack of humanity, of their deed.
A fierce, dynamic piece about the senselessness, the sadness, the sometimes randomness of violence.
For adults and children aged 7 and up."
Klaus Damm (1949–2026) | visible music
Detailed review
"Tanztheater mit Blick auf literarische Vorlagen" (Sonja Lehnert on www.reinmein.info/kultur)
Participants
Performed and danced by the children
Céline Ahmelmann, Anna Bender, Julius Weck and Lea Andreutti.
Literary sources of inspiration are
Dürrenmatt’s Ballade des Minotaurus and Kafka’s Die Verwandlung
- Idea, direction, choreography
Andrea Simon, www.tanzplan.de/a-simon
- Costumes
Gesine Habermann
- Stage design
Lin Nan Zhang
- Composition
Klaus Damm
Besides Minotaurus, the program LebenkomischTod also includes the humorous staging Nicks Geschick as well as the short film Ente, Tod und Tulpe, award-winning in the USA.
Further information
www.tanzplan.de
Scene photos: Bernd Nieschalk
for "LebenkomischTod– Minotaurus" Tanzplan 2012
© Andrea Simon
English translation of the German original. Deutsche Fassung
