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„Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Fremd zieh' ich wieder aus.“
Wilhelm Müller, Dichter, vertont in Franz Schuberts Winterreise
In Das Fremde/ ALIENIdentität the Dresden based choreographer Johanna Roggan and her team go on a search for the strange: Where to find it? What is it? Is it possible to create a structure of the strange and how could it look? Can the strange be caught at all? Or does it vanish immediatly, leaving only an idea behind?
The strange appears to be everywhere, in others, in ourselves, it isolates and distances us from others. It is always there. The three performers Nastia Ivanova, Rosabel Huguet and Matthias Wagner along with musician Simon Goff, confront themselves with the strange and trace it in ordinary structures, memories, utopias and visions. The question left is, who is the strange ? The other, the outcast, the alien? Who is a part of it? A classification is not possible. Does the strangeness really stop when you become a part of it?
A tableau of dance, sound, music, text, and light evolved out of this process which takes the audience on a journey into its own conception of strange.
In cooperation with the Societaetstheater Dresden I Funded within the Doppelpass Fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation, by the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, the Landeshauptstadt Dresden - Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz and the Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank, Residency schloss bröllin e.V. funded by the Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald.
