In Anatomorphosen, director and scenographer Penelope Wehrli and her ensemble search for an expanded perception that (in it’s best case) is transferred to the audience.
The movements of Julek Kreutzer and Mariana Romagnani feed on fantastic stories of other human species as well as a transformed real-time sound-feed of the urban environment. With body sensors we pick up the dancers' movements and transmit them to water fountains in the garden, where the dance turnes into something new and other.
The interdisciplinary work is a fictitious anatomical experiment that enables the dancers with their no-longer-so-human bodies to connect differently with the environment as well as draw from it. Diversification, nebulization and shifts in focus are created in this process of searching for and becoming others – as well as a synaesthetic interlinking of movement, sound and space.
"Anatomorphoses" is the second part of a trilogy by Penelope Wehrli, the first part of which, "Raumverschiebungen", was on show at the Allgemeiner Konsumverein in Braunschweig from 16 November 2023.
Concept, stories, scenography, direction: Penelope Wehrli
Choreography: Lina Gómez
Co-choreography, dance: Julek Kreutzer, Mariana Romagnani
Costume: Zana Bosnjak
Real-time spatial sound Composition: Sam Auinger
Apparatus, sensor technology: Joa Glasstetter
Production management: Anna Bergel, Miko Günther
Photo: Penelope Wehrli
Language: German
Duration: 70-80 min
A production of peninsula.ink, supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Fondazione S + F Stoppani.