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Der Klumpen

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Der Klumpen

Concept and Direction: Laura Hicks and Hannah Shakti Bühler

Set Design: Laura Hicks and Hannah Shakti Bühler

Dance: Patricia Gimeno, Veronica Garzon, Ilana Reynolds, Hannah Shakti Bühler and Laura Hicks.

Sound Design and Performance: Baly Nguyen

Light: Camilla Vetters

Photography: Milli November

Documentation Video: Marianna Brzostowski

Premiere: The Frankfurt Lab 2018

Wiederaufnahme (revival) 2022:

Direction, Casting, and Production: Laura Hicks.

Sound Design: Anna Hjalmarsson

Performance: Judith Hummel, Patricia Gimeno, Veronica Garzon, Ilana Reynolds, and Laura Hicks.

The production was made possible by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Hessian Theater Academy, The Frankfurt LAB, ID_Frankfurt, Mousonturm, and Tanzplattform Rhein-Main.

Wiederaufnahme (revival) 2022 made possible by Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Stattsballet in the context of Tanzfestival Rhein-Main 20222 and supported by the Performing Arts Fund from funds provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR with guest performances supported by National Performance Netz

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Selected as a contender for FLUX Theater in Schools: »Insane physical performance.« Flux Jury
Selected as a contender for the audience prize at Hessisches Theater Tage 2019

An intensely physical performance that shows incredible skill and strength. The level of risk taking keeps the audience on the edge of their seats.

Who does ‘we’ become?

“Der Klumpen” is both thing and human. It is the emergence of the individual from the crowd, the delight of disorientation and the challenge of collaboration. It is the mobilization of the matter of the body, and reconceptualization of identity beyond gender or individual. It demonstrates a real time intense struggle and persistence of the human body, over time the dancers have developed a technique to move safely together as a group, however the risk of being crushed is real and viscerally felt.