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Sasha Waltz & Guests
Sasha Waltz & Guests
The company Sasha Waltz & Guests was founded by Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig in Berlin in 1993. To date, more than 300 artists and ensembles from the fields of architecture, visual arts, choreography, film, design, literature, fashion and music from 30 countries have collaborated as »Guests« on over 80 productions, »Dialoge« projects and films. Sasha Waltz & Guests works in an international and national constantly evolving network of production and guest performance partners, showing its current repertoire of 12 active pieces in about 70 performances each year. In Berlin, the company cooperates with a wide range of municipal theatres, opera houses and museums and has contributed to the establishing of new cultural institutions such as Sophiensaele (1996), St. Elisabeth Kirche (2004) and Radialsystem (2006).
Performances organised by Mondigromax:
KREATUR
Direction and Choreography Sasha Waltz
Music Soundwalk Collective
Dramaturgy Jochen Sandig
»Je t’aime, moi non plus« by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
April 12 to 13, 2019
Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao, Spain
In Kreatur, the German choreographer Sasha Waltz with her 14 dancers examines the phenomena of existence against the background of a disrupted society: power and a lack of power, dominance and weakness, freedom and control, community and isolation. Powerful dance to draw a society that threatens to fall apart.
Press quotes
”Kreatur” is a show that emanates strength, the strength of dance executed with intensity.” Doce notas
“Using a very powerful dance as a tool and offering a demonstration of talent and originality, a society that threatens to fall apart is drawn on stage.” Doce notas
“The company of the German creator stages (…) a reflection on power”. Deia
“Sasha Waltz examines the existential phenomena of the human condition within a collective context of dualities.” El Día
“With her powerful dance, the prestigious German dancer and choreographer draws a society on the brink of extinction.” El Día
“In “Kreatur”, the dancers touch with their dance issues such as power, desires and pain typical of the contemporary human condition.” El Mundo
“Brilliant German choreographer and dancer Sasha Waltz presents her powerful and powerful show.” El Correo