LOT - installative dance performance (Riess Neustadt Collective, 2023)
premiere 15. + 16. November 2023, Schwere Reiter Munich
Imagine a desert arena, a suspended and liminal space. Somewhere after the decaying remnants of capitalist realism have lost their meaning, before the formation of the next future fantasy. A somatic kind of science fiction.
Decay and regrowth morph into one another. Movement becomes the measure of temporality. Cycles open and close steadily, almost imperceptibly, until the previous order reveals itself in a new form.After the sun has bleached out all artifacts of our late anthropocene, and the lava has solidified back into cracking stone, we dream to ride the thing which breaks us. To reappropriate the constancy of our systems.
In LOT, Fabian Riess and Tasha Hess-Neustadt deal with construction and decay. A flow of affect and resonance accelerates the act of silence. Riess Neustadt has been working since 2020 with material installations in interaction with live performance, through movement and through sound and silence. Dealing with the extremes of restriction and freedom and, through somatic research, their effects on the body. Their dance practice draws on state work, somatic movement qualities, and durational experimentations. Within these forms, the topics of their work center around cultural and subcultural references, with sociopolitical critique through queer perspectives. Starting from a dystopian landscape, they interact with the space, follow impulses, create closeness and intimacy. Two performers in a trio with their surroundings.
Concept, choreography, performance - Fabian Riess & Tasha Hess-Neustadt
Stage & costume design - Louis Caspar Schmitt
Light design - Rainer Ludwig
Mentorship & dramaturgical support - Stephan Herwig
PR - Claudia Illi
Graphic Design - Short Notice Studio
Additional outside eye - Katharina Simons
Funded by the Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München
With support from Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V. and Tanztendenz München e.V.
teaser trailer - Louis Caspar Schmitt
photos - Sascha Paar
