WARRIOR
Dance performance by and with Anne-Mareike Hess
My enemy is my fear
And it takes my breath away
So I call to fight with love, open up my heart
I call you to fight with love, open up your heart
Seduced by the belief that a fierce strongman, is all we need to get things done and save the world, choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess, takes us in her solo on a journey of becoming a warrior. Within a distorted and at the same time soft soundscape emerges a profoundly poetic image of human fragility and inner disruption. A dancing body caught in a perpetual fight with its emotions.
WARRIOR is the first part of the trilogy „On Fighting, Dreaming, and Weaving”, in which the artist tries to fight her way through the tangle of stereotypical ideas of being a woman. It’s followed by the solo DREAMER (2021) and the trio WEAVER (2023).
Constructed as an act of resistance, the piece draws its energy from deep within the choreographer, revealing and questioning the world we live in. Through the metamorphosis of the body and the evocative power of the warrior figure, Anne-Mareike Hess celebrates femininity in relation to strength.
Choreography, dance: Anne-Mareike Hess
Sound design: Marc Lohr
Costume: Mélanie Planchard
Light design: Brice Durand
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp
Artistic advice: Rosalind Goldberg
Vocal coach: Joséphine Evrard
Production: utopic productions
Coproduction: Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Weld, Skogen
Support: Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois - TROIS C-L, Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg, Fonds culturel national Luxembourg, Fondation Indépendance, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Residencies: Dancehouse Melbourne (AUS), Skogen (SE), O espaço do Tempo Montemor-O-Novo (PT)
With the support of the Grand Luxe network 2017-2019
This piece has been selected by AEROWAVES Twenty20
Touring support by Kultur LX | Arts Council Luxembourg
DREAMER
Dance performance by Anne-Mareike Hess / utopic productions
Even in my dreams you’re watching me
All these eyes all these eyes
I really wonder what they see
I really wonder what you see
My body knows
In the dance solo DREAMER, choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess crosses the thin line between the real and imagined, the felt and the fantasized: the Dreamer is a sensual embodiment of awakened femininity as well as a transparent surface for the spectators' projections. She lures the audience with her ever-changing appearance into a dream-like space that gradually exposes patriarchal inscriptions in the female body.
After the solo WARRIOR, DREAMER is the second part of the trilogy „On Fighting, Dreaming, and Weaving”, in which the artist tries to fight her way through the tangle of stereotypical ideas of being a woman.
DREAMER is presented in a new version, embodied by dancer Adaya Berkovich.
Choreography: Anne-Mareike Hess
Performance: Adaya Berkovich
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp
Sound design: Marc Lohr
Costumes, stage: Mélanie Planchard
Light design: Brice Durand
Administration: Léa Wiplier
Production: utopic productions
Co-production: Neimënster (LU), Weld (SE), Skogen (SE)
Support: Centre de création chorégraphique luxembourgeois TROIS C-L, Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg, Fonds culturel national Luxembourg FOCUNA, KulturLX
Research Support: BoraBora Residency Center Aarhus (DK)
Residency: Tanzhaus Zürich, Neimënster, Dock11
Support by KulturLX | Arts Council Luxembourg
Language: English
Duration: Warrior (42min)/ break /Dreamer (48min)
