The Opening

2023

Foto: Stella Horta

The opening instantly transforms the audience’s night dreams into choreographic situations, cultivating a sense of community, intimacy, and openness. Spectators are invited to bring their dreams to the theatre, and these dreams become content for the stage work. Anna embodies images from the audience’s dreams and uses dreaming principles to compose live unrepeatable dances, accompanied by live music of Jasmine Guffond and live light design of Aleksandr Prowaliński. One dream at a time, a unique composition is built for the individual who brought the dream, and for the whole temporary community, who dive into the story together. Spectators’ dreams come true through a highly physical dance, playful, light and full of hope.

Foto: Stella Horta
CREDITS

Performance: Anna Nowicka
Music, Sound: Jasmine Guffond
Light design: Aleksandr Prowaliński
Dreamaturgy: Annika Stadler

Language: English, German
Duration: 90 min.

The seed of this project was planted during a research in 2012 which Anna did with Mala Kline.

A production by Anna Nowicka in co-production with DOCK ART, funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. With the further support of: Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanz weit draußen, Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt e.V. Ludwigsburg, Centrum Väst, Göteborg, Diorama Berlin, Ponderosa Stolzenhagen