PROMETHEUS TRILOGY
"My interest in greek theatre lies in its choreography of song and movement. What I find attractive is the use of voice as a movement gesture, that is to say the musicality of language in the body. Also the process of katharsis thrills me....
For me a performance is successful when the public becomes part of the event. For this reason I have placed the audience in 'ad ultimo' on all four sides of the stage. That allows for it to become a three-dimensional action instead of being a two-dimensional image. The public gets a different spatial perception, not only in reference to the actors on stage but also in reference to the other members of the audience, which they face."
(Katja F.M. Wolf in an interview with the Duesseldorfer Biograph 1999)
PROMETHEUS 2000 - The Prologue
Once there will be: a colourfully irridescent family of gods and hereos. A bunch of humans risking their godliness. In our piece we play with allusions to hellenistic, contemporary and futuristic ideas. Classic flirts with Sci-Fi. The bodies, the voices, the spaces they create and design tell their stories of encounters, expansions and limitations. The central figure is Prometheus. What has driven this artist to create his work and what keeps him alive, now that he is punished with an eternal life filled with superhuman pain? We comprehend the myth as a mirror of the human condition in the 21st century in our very personal way.
Credits
Concept, direction, choreography: Katja F.M. Wolf
Performance: Lydia Boukhirane (F), Odile Foehl (D), Marcus Grolle (D), Marko Uolamo (Fin)
Music: André O. Moeller
Light design: Horst Muehlberger
Dates
Première June 1999 tanzhaus nrw as part of Cho-Kol series at tanzhaus nrw
consecutive performances
Venue
tanzhaus nrw
Erkrather Str. 33
D-40233 Düsseldorf
Production
Katja F.M. Wolf
Coproduction
tanzhaus nrw
Supported by
Office for Culture of the City of Duesseldorf
Stadtwerke Duesseldorf
PROMETHEUS 2000 - Main Round in the Arena
With 'Prometheus 2000 - Main Round In The Arena' Katja F.M. Wolf further unrolls her Prometheus theme with another cast in a newly designed space. Assisted by the musicians Tobias Liebezeit and André O. Moeller who get involved in the action of the play down in the arena, the ensemble invites the audience seated on two opposite tribunes to encounter the figure of Prometheus who is now performed by all three different dancers. They not only screen the myth in respect to its resonance in the present time, but also take it as a background for their game with elements of what godliness, drama and destiny might mean today. If the humans behave like gods, the gods behave like humans - and then mercy with those who dance with the eagle!
A young kind of dance theatre comes up that questions its means by bluntly taking aim at the European myth of the progress of humanity, the courage enabled by suffering, the convinced obsession of a "hero of the daily life".
Credits
Concept, direction: Katja F.M. Wolf
Performance and texts: Katja F. M. Wolf, Marcus Grolle, Marko Uolamo
Music: André O. Moeller, Tobias Liebezeit
Dramaturgy: Alexandra Dedrichs
Light design: Horst Muehlberger
Dates
April 2000 tanzhaus nrw
Venue
tanzhaus nrw
Erkrather Str. 33
40233 Düsseldorf
Production
Katja F.M. Wolf
Coproduktion
tanzhaus nrw
Supported by
Art Foundation NRW, Office for Culture of the City of Düsseldorf
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PROMETHEUS 2000 - ad ultimo
'Already in the first two pieces of her 'Prometheus-Trilogy' did choreographer and dancer Katja F.M. Wolf work with one of the great occidental myths as a foil for references to her actual artistic self. The third piece of the trilogy 'ad ultimo' will rounden up the enterprise: Now the focal points are time and movement. What becomes of the antique stories and characters confronted with today's life? Is there an essence of perceptions, desires, that consists through all times? Four dancers embody different personalities of the antique mythology, Sisyphos, Prometheus, Io and Pandora, assisted and commented by a chorus of eight people, accompanied by live electronic musician André O. Moelller. Underneath a hanging spatial installation by Till-Martin Tauwetter they look for contemporary answers.' (Cologne Stadtrevue, Feb. 2002)
Credits
Concept, choreography, stage design: Katja F.M. Wolf
Protagonists: Ayse Orhon, Maria Ramos, Marcus Grolle, Samuel Dellicour
Music: André O.Moeller
Costumes and stage: Till-Martin Tauwetter
Light design: Ansgar Kluge
Artistic advice: Alexandra Dederichs
Chorus: Ariella Hirshfeld, Andreas Schmidt, Gudrun Lange, Firat Kilic, Karen Boesser, Kathrin Heide, Lorenz Orth, Philip Smith
Dates
February 2002, tanzhaus nrw
Venue
tanzhaus nrw
Erkrather Str. 33
D-40233 Duesseldorf
Production
Katja F.M. Wolf
Coproduktion
tanzhaus nrw
Supported by
Art Foundation NRW, Cultural Office of Duesseldorf,
Minister president of NRW, Fonds for Performing Arts
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