NOMADA
Helge Letonja with the Ensemble Of Curious Nature
“And everything that is perceived, thought, felt and dreamed with the senses exists.” Paul Radin
Nomada is the intangible that has long since folded its tents. The one that makes you struggle for composure. Its life force springs from fire. If you try to locate it, a whirlwind of data particles will catch you. She moves along winding paths as an archaic walking body and disembodied in the digital world, effortlessly switching between environments.
Nomada emerges between dancing bodies, ancient myths and videographic images, allowing seemingly immovable opposites to collide. In the face of nature under pressure and human confusion through engaging artificial intelligence, she laughs at the approaching changes, seizes every chance to escape, meets you in a dream and emerges from the ashes where you sit, weeping for every dying species.
The Ensemble Of Curious Nature seeks physical approaches to the themes of migration/changing habitats and transformation. In collaboration with filmmaker Isabel Robson and composer Miguel Marin, choreographer Helge Letonja and the dancers explore the lives and mindsets of nomads. Characterized by the intensive interactions with their living spaces, connections between these lifestyles and the present become clear and at the same time point to collective voids.
Choreography: Helge Letonja | Choreographic Assistance, Training Management: Mariko Koh | Dance: Lys Cabral, Wan-Yun Chen, Jed Nagales, Tiago Reis, Daniel Sabia, Pere Sansaloni Servera, Carolina Verra | Composition: Miguel Marin | Video Art & Stage: Isabel Robson | Costume: Csenge Vass | Lighting: Laurent Schneegans | Dramaturgy: Anke Euler | Technical Management: Nathaniel Johnson | Production Management: Henriette Koch, Médoune Seck | Management: Kerstin Witges | Photo: Marianne Menke | Film/Media: Médoune Seck
A production by TanzRAUM Nord gUG with steptext dance project, funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, by Senator für Kultur Bremen and the Waldemar Koch Stiftung Bremen
