Basically I don’t but actually I do
Foto: Friedemann Simon
February 2 & 3, 2010, 8.30 pm, Muffathalle
In their new collaboration, German choreographer Jochen Roller and his Israeli colleague Saar Magal take a photo of an SS man shooting a Jewish woman as the starting point to compile a catalogue of images and situations that are stored in their heads and bodies as phantoms of the memory of the Holocaust. As children of the third generation, as the grandchildren of both perpetrators and victims, they examine via choreography how these phantoms of memory influence the perception of the other. What if the people in the photograph were originally Grandpa Roller and Grandma Magal? Without direct access to the historical information that disappeared with their grandparents, they use various experimental set-ups on stage to explore the ideas and realities that shape their German-Israeli relationship.
Jochen Roller
Jochen Roller, born 1971 in Berlin, studied Classical Ballet at the Berlin Opera, Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen and Choreography at the Laban Centre in London. From 1997, he created a large number of dance pieces, the solo trilogy ‚perform performing’ (2002-2004) among them. His productions tour world-wide and have been invited to the German National Dance Plattforms of 2004 and 2006. As a teacher he worked in Costa Rica, Lebanon, Singapore, Russia and other countries. In 2007 he started curating the dance programme of Kampnagel Performance Space in Hamburg, Germany.
Credits
Performers: Jochen Roller, Saar Magal
Light: Marek Lamprecht
Sound: Paul Ratzel
Outside Eyes: Elisabeth Nehring, Regev Contes
Production: DepArtment / Harriet Lesch, Katharina von Wilcke
Eine Produktion von Jochen Roller und DepArtment in Koproduktion mit Kampnagel und
dem Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv. Gefördert durch die Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien
Hamburg und den Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
Performance of 60 minutes approximately
Tickets: www.muenchenticket.de (available after December 15, 2009)
More information: www.jochenroller.de