Premiere Kassel - HALLE 2 am 22.11.2024 - Sponsored by the kulturamt of the city of Kassel, Quan Dao e.V. Doppelhorn and SOZO e.V.

The grass withers and the flowers fade…

... a sound, a clang, a word, an intension prevails forever. Amplification beyond a doubt into eternity.

Can you hear it? The sound? How silent is loud? „I jump with my everything into life and let life

show what life is“. The principle of creation amplifies through me in the moment I recognize the

voice. A poetic movement study about intention that connects and amplification that explodes

beyond rationality.

Concept und Choreography: Deborah Smith-Wicke

Co Creation und Performance: Alejandro Diaz Muñoz, Aurora Magrí, Vanessa Pecthold, Friederike

Wagner

Music: Albrecht Ziepert, Frédéric Chopin

Sound: Deborah Smith-Wicke

Technic und Light: Jan Lucas Paesler

Costumes: Friedericke Wagner and Deborah Smith-Wicke

Graphic: Walter Breidenbach

Photography: Karl-Heinz Mierke

Choreographer’s notes...

An Invitation

„Welcome to a time of secrets. We know where we are, what we are doing and why we are doing

it. We are adamant about it. We know the end. Grass withers and flowers fade, but something

remains. The intention never changed. Sometimes it whispers and sometimes it sweeps you off

your feet and always it will be beyond any rational sense you can make of it. That’s the feast you

are invited to.“

Some inspiration and creative „hammer and nails“ as one of my dancers put it. For 14 years

I practice as a teacher of the Quan Dao Kung Fu academy exercises which intentionally move

abstract energy with our body. Such „food“ for me as a choreographer to take my dancers on this

journey of inner and outer layers. Setting energy free that is bound and creating a movement

language that one can feast on, remember, or forget.

I quote Jonathan Burrows; „ At the end you will clap, and we will clap with you. The clapping is a

moment of being together and... we need this.“

I quote Isaiah 40 vs 8; „The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands

strong forever.“