Seelengrund

Our body is the place of our soul, and movement in space is its mirror, an expression of what defines us.

Choreography and performance Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes Guerra
Music Ana Root, Marina Craffonara & Rina Kaçinari Artistic assistance Birke Schings
Duration 00:28 min
Production IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance (Doris Plankl)
Synopsis In the dance duet, Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes Guerra plumb the layers of our inner depths, becoming explorers who search with curiosity for our inherent connection with the greater whole.

The dynamic relationship duet thus becomes a reflection, opens up the space, transforms it and makes it tangible as a three-dimensional order of the soul's ground.

The audience is challenged to engage with these dimensions.

Seelengrund has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Portugal Vale de Lama Spain Danza Gunnea Errenteria - Basque Country organized by Haatik Dantza Italy Alps Move Festival.

Support This piece is supported by Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol, Provinz Trentino-Südtirol, the Stiftung Sparkasse Südtirol, the city of Bolzano and produced by IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance.

Photos: Gabriel Höllrigl

Shell Shock

Shell Shock shows four different personalities who share the same room with all their bizarre, funny, or neurotic traits. The pop-art videoprojection adds on the edge, humor and critic in this piece. Unfortunately it deals with the crisis of our century, war, the shell shock state, the trauma, destroyed believes and fairytales. More than ever it is describing a society in need to wake up and it is on the pulse of time.

Choreography Marion Sparber in collaboration with the dancers
Dance Alan Fuentes Guerra, Diane Gemsch, Marion Sparber and Woosang Jeon (original cast and co-creation: Gieorgij Puchalski, Sonia Prado)
Videowork, dramaturgical assistance & filming Projeto Solo (Keren Chernizon)

Shell Shock has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Germany Ulm Moves Festival at Roxy Ulm / Tanzherbst Kempten Italy Alps Move Festival.

Support Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol, Stiftung Sparkasse Südtirol, KARI.TANZHAUS

Photos Blauracke

Equinox

Like the equinox, contrasts are natural. What separates and what connects us, how do we perceive our surroundings through the eyes of our counterpart?

Choreography Marion Sparber in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers Woosang Jeon, Lukas Malkowski, Alan Fuentes Guerra, and Marion Sparber
Music & Costumes Agente Costura
Artistic assistance Birke Schings
Duration 00:50 h
Production IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance (Doris Plankl)
Synopsis Differences and similarities have occupied and fascinated the choreographer for decades. Like the equinox, contrasts are natural. What separates and what connects us, how do we perceive our surroundings through the eyes of our counterpart? The strong physicality becomes the working craft and body poetry of this metaphor of opposites and poles, which carries a deep expressiveness, that is sought in this piece. The spherical sounds and costumes of Agente Costura play with silence and sound, shadow and light using especially built solar panels built by the artist.

Equinox has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Austria Brux – Freies Theater Innsbruck Germany Acker Stadt Palast Italy Alps Move Festival.

Support This piece is supported by Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol, Provinz Trentino-Südtirol, the Stiftung Sparkasse Südtirol, Südtiroler Theaterverband, and produced by IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance.

Radix

The root (radix) is a leafless, usually subterranean part of the plant that is anchored in the soil, absorbs water and nutrient salts and serves as a storage organ. The root network (radix) creates the basis on which life develops, adapts and changes, like a tree that stretches its branches out in the direction where they can develop best. In this way, every plant is based on a complex system in which every tiny part communicates and interacts with each other, weaving a dense network.

Choreography Marion Sparber, Martina Marini and Riccardo Meneghini Performers Marion Sparber, Stefania Bertola, Riccardo Meneghini, Rebecca Dirler, Giulia Tornarolli, Iosu Lezamenta and Alan Fuentes Guerra
Duration 1 h 5 min
Production Tanzkollektiv Südtirol
Synopsis In the dance production Radix, South Tyrolean dancers meet on fertile terrain, stretch their roots into the ground, explore the relationship between their bodies and their behavior towards each other. The dancers and choreographers work together on the concept of collective intelligence in order to understand some key moments of life and evolution. In this choreographic collaboration, the aim is to create a framework that in turn forms part of a larger whole and leads to an interconnected system such as that of society, the internet, the forest, the financial markets, the human brain and the light of each individual star.

Radix has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Italy Alps Move Festival at Stadttheater Gries Bolzano, Puccini Theater Meran, Astra Brixen, Raiffaissensaal Lana and Basis Schlanders (South Tyrol)

Support This piece is supported by Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol, Provinz Trentino-Südtirol, the Stiftung Sparkasse Südtirol, the comunes of Meran and Lana and produced by Tanzkollektiv Südtirol

Photos Gabriel Höllrigl Video Gregor Marini

Blueprint

Breath by breath I come closer to you.

Faceless, I am facing you.
In this very moment I get contour.
And every cell screams breathe more.

A solo about the banality and extraordinarity of life. An intimate portrait of one who could be anyone and everyone. But it is her.

Choreography Marion Sparber in co-creation with Deborah Manavi. Performance & Production Deborah Manavi
Original music Stefano Ciardi
Video Eva Eyrich Texts by Mahvash Sabet, Khalil Gibran, Michael Ende Duration 1h 5 min Support by Kulturamt Kassel, Dr. Wolfgang Zippel-Stiftung and Zukunftsstiftung Mensch und Gesellschaft

​Blueprint has been performed at Tanzhaus Temporär Nr. 8 organized by Tanzwerk Kassel at Kunstraum Dock 4 Kassel Germany

Photos: Karl-Heinz Mierke @buehnenlicht

Self-finished

The duet self-finished is inspired by the physical behaviour of becoming a shape between two very distinctive individuals. How can we emphathize and compenetrate with the other that much to feel an entity and still be true to ourselves? The inside surface of the mold is so smooth that the shape that is extruded from it is also smooth. Once a polymer has been cut or shaped from its original shape, the edge that has been cut may become rough and will need to be finished.

Choreography and performance Marion Sparber and Sonia Rodriguez
Music Marion Sparber and Sonia Rodriguez Duration 15 min ​Self-finished has been performed in the frame of Tierras en danza Festival at Baños de Montemayor, Plasencia and at Auditorio Iglesia Santa Catalina Spain

Photos: Sául Vásquez - Tierras en Danza

Nefelibata

The word “Nefelibata” origins from the Ancient Greek νεφελοβάτης (nephelobátēs, “one who walks the clouds”), from νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) +‎ -βᾰ́της (-bátēs, “walker”).

Choreography & Dance Marion Sparber, Lina Valverde, Kenan Dinkelmann
Music Kuo Jam Han Sanchez and Agente Costura (Lisa Simpson)
Production IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance (Doris Plankl)
Duration 00:24 h

Nefelibata has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Austria BRUX Freies Theater Innsbruck Germany Tanzraum Wedding Italy Alps Move Festival.

Support Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol, Provinz Trentino-Südtirol, the Stiftung Sparkasse Südtirol

Photos Dimitri Kalaitzidis

Eight (remake)

in the frame of the evening Schwarz Weiss by Strado Compagnia Danza

A danced plea for colors

Black-and-white thinking is widespread, but dangerous: it only allows for all or nothing. Success or failure. Victory or defeat. Perfect or not at all. Our fast-paced, media-driven world favors this way of thinking. When the complexity of reality seems unmanageable and threatening, when floods of information meet short attention spans, thinking in extremes becomes more attractive.

Choreography Marion Sparber Dancers Júlia Chacón I Espí, Letícia Conduto, Valerie, Lauren Damen and Nicholas Taraj
Duration 15:30 min Production Ray Lacsamana
Assistance Caterina Salvadori
Costume Christina Schlumberger and Agnete Costura
Music Stephane Pigneul and Rob Hayden, Erikk McKenzie
Light Paul Stauber
Stagedesign Domenico Strazzeri
Photo  Nik Schölzel
Invited by Domenico Strazzeri / Strado Compagnia Danza
Synopsis In reality, extremes are completely unlikely. Life takes place between the poles: across the entire color spectrum. Whether we see and appreciate these colors or not is up to us. The evening offers five approaches to this theme, from political and social, global and intimate-personal viewpoints. And it comes together as a danced declaration of love to the colors in life.

Eight (remake) has been performed at Stadthaus Ulm Germany Supported by Kulturabteilung Stadt Ulm and Stadthaus Ulm Germany Video Valeria Lampadova

Acacia confusA

The piece deals with the themes of dependence, empathy, and violence, and is inspired by forms of relationships between plants. Many plants rely on others, both for their biological and structural processes, and these relationships can be harmless, beneficial, or parasitic.

Choreography & Dance Marion Sparber, Lina Valverde
Duration 00:20 h
Many thanks to Carlos Fernández and La Reunión, Costa Rica

Acacia confusA has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Costa Rica La Reunión / La Machine Festival.

Photos Carlos Fernàndez

Eight

As the name says, it is a piece that talks about the number eight.

A perfect number in shape, as it is formed by two equal circles joined together by an infinite line, which in turn is the symbol of the balance between antagonistic forces. An infinite line, which in turn is the symbol of the balance between antagonistic forces. It represents the eternal cosmic movement, the eternal base spiral of regeneration and infinity. Therefore, in "Eight" it is possible to visualize how through the body one can find the different possibilities to find this state. With the help of arms, legs, and movement in space, distance, and proximity, play, struggle, and harmony we experiment with these elements that play an important role in the piece.

Choreography & Dance Marion Sparber, Nerea Martínez Martín
Music Richie Salvador, David Prieth
Filming & Videoprojection Projeto Solo (Keren Chernizon)
Camera Julia Inderst
Duration 00:30 h

Eight has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Austria Die Bäckerei Costa Rica La Machine / Solodos en danza Germany Acker Stadt Palast / Kari Tanzhaus Studiobühne Italy Alps Move Festival / Gaul Open Air Russia Skorohod Theatre Spain Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid / Deltebre Dansa / La Fundición / Solodos en Danza Ourense Switzerland Clabo.

Support Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol

Photos Michael Schmidt

Impromptu

The word “Impromptu” translates to “extempore”, “unannounced” and “improvised”. Rather than conceived steps direct movements close to the body are interesting to the composition in space. We play with movement, space, music and words and no rules apply.

Choreography Marion Sparber in collaboration with the dancers
Dance Alan Fuentes Guerra, Kenan Dinkelmann, Sami Aleksanteri Similä, Marion Sparber ( part of the orignal cast: Samuel Minguillon and Sonia Rodriguez
Music Kuo-Jam Chen Sanchez
Costume Marion Sparber
Production IDEA - Tanz Theater Performance (Doris Plankl)
Duration 00:40 h

Impromptu has been performed in the following theatres and venues: Germany Acker Stadt Palast / Tanzherbst Kempten Italy Alps Move Festival.

Support Autonome Provinz Bozen, Amt für Deutsche Kultur Südtirol, Region Trentino-Südtirol, Stiftung Sparkasse Südtirol

Photos Aya Toraiwa