Foto: Lennart Bredeweg
Foto: Lennart Bredeweg
Foto: Lennart Bredeweg
What do Pina Bausch and the ZDF Hit Parade have in common, especially in terms of their nation-building character? Inspired by the subtitle “Schlagerballett” (“Hit Ballet”) of an early work by Bausch and her company, which could perhaps be described as Germany's most successful export of high culture, choreographer and performer Joana Tischkau sets out in search of ways to view the German national narrative from a queer perspective. In the tradition of Black German pop stars such as Roberto Blanco, Randolph Rose, Marie Nejar, and Tina Daute, the performers dance and sing their way to an aesthetic Germanness that makes sense regardless of Whiteness and heteronormativity. After “Last Night a DJ Took My Life” (Schauspielhaus Zürich), Joana Tischkau pulls out another box from the archive of the Deutsches Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music (German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music), which opened at HAU in 2020 to unpack the unlikely yet plausible matrix of Germany, showbiz, and White supremacy.
Artistic direction/choreography: Joana Tischkau
Performance & choreography: Dayron Domínguez Piedra, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Ellias Hampe, Anne-Kathrin Hartmann, Moses Leo, Deborah Macauley, Carlos Daniel Valladores Carvajal, Sophie Yukiko
Sound: Frieder Blume
Costume: Nadine Bakota
Stage: Carlo Siegfried
Lighting design & technical direction: Hendrik Borowski
Director's assistant: Anta Helena Recke
Production/Touring: Lisa Gehring
Production assistant/guest performance support: Lianne Mol
Set assistant: Marie Göhler
Outside Eye/Input: Dr. Mariama Diagne
Production: Joana Tischkau. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Research cooperation: Malpaso Dance Company / Liaison office Goethe-Institut Havana / Support: Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main.
An event as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. The Dance Platform Rhine-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich and Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, ODDO BHF Foundation, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main].
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