Über die Wut
In her new solo piece “Über die Wut” (On Anger), Anna Konjetzky investigates anger as an individual emotion and as a condition produced by social structures. A whole arsenal of personal, political and pop-cultural gestures of anger is dissected and thoroughly examined. Dancer Sahra Huby slows down, fragments, rhythmizes, and elongates the movements, giving them an unexpected beauty and elegance – only to rage and erupt again in the next moment. Images of revolts, protests and demonstrations emerge and the dancer takes them over and makes them her own. Iconic gestures like the raised fist of the Black Power movement proclaim the assault on unjust conditions. On this stage, Huby is an angry woman, and she brings to the stage as witnesses all the angry women of the past and present, from Clytemnestra to Joan of Arc to Rosa Parks and Audre Lorde. Together with them, the work poses the question of a fundamental and radical transformation.
Choreography, stage Anna Konjetzky // dance: Sahra Huby // Music: Brendan Dougherty //
Costume-design: Michiel Keuper, Martin Sieweke // Video: Susanne Steinmassl // Light, stage: Barbara Westernach // LED-construction: Timm Burkhardt // production management: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro // PR: Simone Lutz
www.annakonjetzky.com
Language: English
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BIOS:
Anna Konjetzky
Since 2005 Anna Konjetzky creates dance performances and dance installations in which choreographic thinking is a practice of reflection and transformation and is imbedded in a socio-political context, which can be found not just in the topic and aesthetics she works with but also in the settings and formats she creates for her choreographies, her artistic research and in the facilitation of exchange platforms, collaborative researches, shared trainings....
Anna Konjetzky’s works happen physically, aesthetically and politically within a queer-feminist discourse – she sees her work always as a proposition for a dialogue.
Her work has been shown for example at Spielart, Dance, Tanzwerkstatt Munich, Cofestival Ljubljana, Unidram Potsdam, Festival Danse Balsa Marni Bruxelles,... in Krakow, Warsaw, Luxembourg, Kampala, Nairobi, Hanoi, Istanbul, Gent, Shanghai, Salzburg, Brazil, Pakistan...
She also creates for established dance companies such as Staatstheater Saarbrücken or Staatstheater Braunschweig.
She teaches regularly at several universities, and creates pieces with the students: for example MDT dance university Amsterdam, ZZT cologne, Beaux-arts Bruxelles.
She received several prizes and scholarships, including her work for youth, ’running’ which was one of the three finalists for German Theatre Prize FAUST 2018 and the dance-scholarship of the city of Munich in 2011.
In 2009 she won the competition ‚operare’ of the Contemporary Opera Berlin, during the festival euro-scene Leipzig 2009, 2014 she received the „Förderpreis Tanz“ from the city of Munich.
Her dance-installation „Abdrücke“ was invited in 2012 to the Tanzplattform Germany where 15 of the top productions from Germany are shown every two years.
She is third time recipient of three-year funding from the city of Munich, producing regularly new works and researching as the company Anna Konjetzky & Co and conducting three year research project Nomadic Academy (https://nomadic-ak.com) through the support of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund.