When it’s haunted, everything gets mixed up. Goose bumps. The nerve pathways in our body are on alert because we can no longer trust reality as we know it. In these intense and eerie moments, we come into contact with the past and the future at the same time, with ancestors and descendants. Together with an integrated audio description, the performers in GESPENSTER transform themselves into ghost hunters and the hunted, collecting ghosts from experiences of the body, life and violence. The ghosts of the past and present leave them no peace and find none themselves. In a reality in which being at home is not an option anyway, GESPENSTER celebrates the pleasure of goosebumps, eeriness and haunting. Because the haunting also carries an enormous potential: everything suddenly changes!
CREDITS:
CHOREOGRAPHY, ARTISTIC DIRECTION, DANCE
Ursina Tossi
CREATIVE COLLABORATION
Nona Siepmann
CREATIVE PRODUCTION, PRESS, AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT
STÜCKLIESEL
CO-CREATION, DANCE
Aurora Brocci, Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge , Sakshi Jain, Damini Gairola, Ursina Tossi
DRAMATURGY AD
Sascha Malina Hoffmann
STAGE
Raphaela Andrade
COSTUMES
Nina Divitschek
SOUND
Johannes Miethke
LIGHTING DESIGN
Lars Kracht
VIDEO
Martin Prinoth
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alexandra Polina
SUPPORT
Gespenster is a production by Ursina Tossi & EXCESSIVE SHOWING, co-produced by Kampnagel (Hamburg) and TanzFaktur (Cologne).
Supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture and Media, the Fonds Darstellende Künste (production support) Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and supported by the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
