THE URGE
CEREN ORAN
A Simultaneous Dance Performance for Public Spaces Based on Lockdown Improvisations
The Urge refers to our current environment the pandemic, which has held us captive for a year and a half, focusing on collective trauma and individual behaviour in it. The interaction of every individual, during a crisis experienced by the whole of society, will be looked at under a magnifying glass and transformed into choreographic pictures, which will entrance through the contrast between strong, common unanimous phrases and the resulting individual solos. A large role is played by Oran’s long term music collaborator Hüseyin Evirgen, co- determines the dramaturgy and of the choreography with changing rhythm and dynamics. This is completed by electronic music with the live musician in each city Simon Couratier, Jeannot Salvatori, Jean-Baptiste Charlot, who increases the contrast between collective and individual on a musical level.
Concept, Artistic Direction, Choreography l Ceren Oran
Choreographic Collaboration l Maayan Reiter, Rotem Weismann
Dance | Jin Lee, Uwe Brauns, Laura Manz, Jihun Choi, Lena Klink (Munich), Maayan Reiter, Margherita Dello Sbarba, Paula Niehoff, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Hayato Yamaguchi (Cologne), Rotem Weismann, Lukas Malkowski, Woo-Sang Jeon, Susanna Ylikoski, Ariel Hayoun (Berlin)
Music l Hüseyin Evirgen (Electronics) Jeannot Salvatori (Saxophone), Jean Baptiste Charlot (Flute), Simon Couratier (Saxophone)
Dramaturgical Accompaniment l Karolina Hejnova
Artistic Production Management l Rat&Tat – Kulturbüro
Production Assistance l Caroline Skibinski, Florian Greß
Technological Management l Peer Quednau
PR l Simone Lutz
The unisono parts of the choreography are based on the lockdown videos by Phil Hulford, Sofia Pouchtou, Clementine Herveux, Elisa Ruffato, Kamola Rashidova.
Premiere l The premiere of The Urge took Place simultaneously in Munich, Berlin and Cologne on may 8 th at the DANCE 2021 Festival
website : https://www.cerenoran.com
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