[:de]PUSHCompany Chameleon (Großbritannien)[:en]PUSHCompany Chameleon (Great Britain)[:]
2023-06-15 18:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Karl-Marx-Denkmal, Brückenstraße 10, Chemnitz, 09111
Push is a powerful and insightful male duet that illuminates the different stances we take to understand and relate to each other. The piece explores the complex nature of our psychology – how we sometimes push to exert dominance and control, and then again choose to submit and step back.

Company Chameleon is known for its unique and athletic style of dance, coined by Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner. The two had met at Trafford Youth Dance Theatre in the 1990s and went on to train at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. After graduating, they worked with some of the most innovative dance companies and choreographers in the world, eventually forming their own company in 2007. Today, Company Chameleon tours internationally, giving over 50 performances each year, both indoors and out. In this way, they have introduced a different side of dance and movement to thousands of young people from all over the world.

Choreography /Costumes/ Dance: Anthony Missen & Kevin Edward Turner
Music: Savath + Savages, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Duration: 17 minutes

Commissioned by Without Walls and Dance Manchester

[:de]REFLETCompagnie Xuan Le (Frankreich)[:en]REFLETCompagnie Xuan Le (France)[:]
2023-06-15 18:30 - 19:00
It is the encounter of contemporary dance, hip-hop, visual arts and inline skating with which the company Xuan Le takes us into a whole new world of physical expression. Almost weightlessly, Xuan Le, freestyle slalom champion, creates an energetic cosmos on his rollerblades that is as intense as it is meditative – and he takes us back to our origins and right into the heart of the relationship we form in life. Between the search for balance and inner exploration, the audience experiences an emotional journey where the tangible enters into dialogue with the intangible.

A former freestyle slalom competitor, Xuan Le initially lived out his fascination with dance in collaborations with Mourad Merzouki’s company Käfig, Montreal’s Cirque Eloize, Opéra du Capitole de Toulouse, and Lene Boel’s Danish company Next Zone, and finally founded his own company Xuan Le in 2016.

Choreography: Xuan Le
Performances: Shihya Peng and Xuan Le
Costume designer: Peggy Housset
Musical design: Jules Evrard

Duration: 20 min

With the kind support of the Institut Français and the French Ministry of Culture.

[:de]IN-PARADISECompagnie Ex-Nihilo (Frankreich)[:en]IN-PARADISECompagnie Ex-Nihilo (France)[:]
2023-06-18 18:00 - 19:00
In-Paradise reflects a society in which we are constantly in action, ceaselessly constructing, undoing, repeating ourselves like a perpetuum out of an urge for frenetic occupation. We play with number and quantity, playing with stacking, the interlocking of stacks. In-Paradise is an invitation to travel, a search for balance, for complementarity, where everything wobbles, on the edge of rupture.

Anne Le Batard founded Ex Nihilo in 1994, after her career as a dancer in Brussels and Marseille. Nurtured by immersion and exploration of public space, she has developed her own signature. Jean-Antoine Bigot worked as a dancer in France and Belgium until he joined Compagnie Ex Nihilo in 2000. Since then he shares the artistic direction with Anne Le Batard. Together they have created more than 15 projects for Ex Nihilo. The concern of the company is on the one hand to connect the public and art and on the other hand to let new elements of art flow into dance. It is particularly dedicated to long-term projects, which they share with the respective audience through workshops and encounters. Since 2016, Ex Nihilo is considered an important partner of European creative projects for contemporary dance in special performance venues.

Concept and artistic direction: Anne Le Batard, Jean-Antoine Bigot.
Dance: Jean-Antoine Bigot, Lisa Da Boit, Tom Grand Mourcel, David Mazon, Corinne Potana, Rolando Rocha, Satya Roosens, Ji-in Gook
Space conception; Jean-Antoine Bigot
Costumes; Julia Didier
Music: Pascal Ferrari and Régis Boulard
Duration: 55 minutes

Coproduction KLAP Maison pour la danse in Marseille / L’Atelier 231 – Centre National des Arts de la Rue in Sotteville-lès-Rouen / Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne – Compagnie Käfig / Le Pôle Arts de la Scène in Marseille
Supported by SACD/Auteurs d’espaces, ADAMI and SPEDIDAM, by Théâtre La passerelle – scène nationale de Gap et des Alpes du Sud / Coopérative de Rue et de Cirque – 2r2c in Paris
Special thanks to La Cité des Arts de la Rue in Marseille / Générik Vapeur / Lieux Publics – Centre national de création en espace public / La Friche de la Belle de Mai
With the kind support of the Institut Français and the French Ministry of Culture.

AMARANTHINECOMPANY CHAMELEON (GB)
2024-06-21 17:30 - 18:00
”Amaranthine” explores a relationship between a man and a woman and follows a couple desperately trying to resolve a conflict and find their way back to each other. Complex and emotive, the play entangles in an ebb and flow of feelings and arguments on the one hand, appreciation, understanding and acceptance on the other. A powerful and risk-taking performance in a mixture of contemporary dance, b-boying and capoeira.
Company Chameleon is known for its unique and athletic dance style, coined by Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner. The two met at Trafford Youth Dance Theatre in the 1990s and trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. After graduating, they worked with some of the most innovative dance companies and choreographers in the world and eventually founded their own company in 2007. Today, Company Chameleon tours internationally, giving over 50 indoor and outdoor performances each year. In doing so, they have introduced thousands of young people from all over the world to a different side of dance and movement.
Choreography: Kevin Edward Turner and Navala ‘Niku’ Chaudhari
Music: Miguel Marin
Dance: Alice Bonazzi, Kadafi Mulula
Duration: 20 minutes
www.companychameleon.com

Image: ©Joel Chester Fildes

PUSHCOMPANY CHAMELEON (GB)
2024-06-21 19:00 - 19:30
”Push” is a powerful and empathetic duet that plays with the different stances we take to understand and relate to each other. The piece explores the complex nature of our psychology – how we sometimes push to exert dominance and control and other times choose to step back and submit.
Company Chameleon is known for its unique and athletic dance style, coined by Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner. The pair met at Trafford Youth Dance Theatre in the 1990s and trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. After graduating, they worked with some of the most innovative dance companies and choreographers in the world and eventually founded their own company in 2007. Today, Company Chameleon tours internationally, giving over 50 indoor and outdoor performances each year. In this way, they have introduced thousands of young people from all over the world to a different side of dance and movement.
Choreography: Anthony Missen & Kevin Edward Turner
Music: Savath + Savages, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Costumes: Anthony Missen & Kevin Edward Turner
Dance: Alice Bonazzi, JP Hon
Duration: 17 minutes
www.companychameleon.com

Image: ©Joel Chester Fildes

L'ENVERS D'ICI - CIE EX NIHILO (F)
2025-06-21 18:00 - 19:00
Inspired by abandoned places, the company invites you on a poetic urban exploration. The audience follows a moving journey that breathes life back into the place for a moment, makes the walls speak, and transforms them. In these fragile times, where short-term profitability is often the norm, things quickly lose their market value, the past is erased in the face of the future, and connections to the present are severed. In this respect, this exploration will not be a documentary but an exploration of the theme of transformation. It is about providing a space for a new reality, or unreality, and crafting new narratives.
Choreographer/director: Anne Le Batard
Dancers: Luc Bénard / Luis Carricaburu, Corinne Pontana, Jean-Antoine Bigot, Lassina Kone / Tom Grand Mourcel, Emma Riba, Ji In Gook, Adele Diridollou
Actors / spatial design of the words: Charles-Henri Despeignes
Musicians: Pascal Ferrari, Tom Honnoré, Rui Owada
Technical designer (sound and light): Camille Sanchez
Duration: 60 minutes
Image: ©TomGrandMourcel

Das TANZ | MODERNE | TANZ internationales Festival für zeitgenössischen Tanz 2025 ist Programmpartner von Chemnitz 2025.
Ein Projekt im Rahmen der Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes und durch Bundesmittel der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
