my body falls lighter

STAATSTHEATER KASSEL | MACIEJ KUŹMIŃSKI

There was dancing in the desert, somewhere ancient, alien, on the broken architecture of a lost civilization. It was a dance at the edge of becoming and unbeing, in that liminal space where it is hoped that a glimpse of the singularity might be possible against the backdrop of night and starlight. And the whisper of a wish, to fall, but fall lighter, from the tightrope of time.

Choreography as philosophy with the biographical memory of the body, staged in a visually stunning and poetic way.

Premiere 29.04 in Staatstheater Kassel, Germany

My body falls lighter is Maciej Kuźmiński's first collaboration with an Orchestra.

Rehearsal photos by Karl Heinz-Mierke

my body falls lighter team

Silke Meier-Brösicke
dramaturgy

Mario Hartmuth
orchestra conductor

Markus Meyer
set & costume design

Wencke Kriemer de Matos
rehearsal director, assistant

Kasia Kizior
rehearsal director

Thorsten Teubl
company director, curator

Monika Witkowska
additional creation

DANCERS - ORIGINAL CAST

STAATSTHEATER KASSEL

Sophie Borney

Safet Mistele

Anna Gorokhova

Shafiki Sseggayi

Gil Amishai

Vincenzo Minervini

Beatrice Ieni

Yannis Brissot

Selene Martello

Hyeonwoo Bae

Sophie Ormiston

Dario Wilmington

Iris Posthumus

Felicia Nilsson

Klil Ela Rotshtain

Karen Voss Albrechtsen

Esther Alberte Bungaard

Ieva Navickaite

my body falls lighter

STAATSTHEATER KASSEL | MACIEJ KUŹMIŃSKI

choreography, lighting design, music selection
Maciej Kuźmiński

scenography, costiume
Markus Meyer

dramaturgy
Silke Meier-Brösicke

original cast
Ana Gorokhova, Safet Mistele, Gil Amishai, Hyeonwoo Bae, Sophie Borney, Shafiki Sseggayi, Beatrice Ieni, Yannis Brissot,
Klil Ela Rotshtain, Vincenzo Minervini, Ieva Navickaite, Dario Wilmington, Sophie Ormiston, Selene Martello,
Felicia Nilsson, Karen Voss Albrechtsen, Esther Alberte Bungaard, Iris Posthumus

live music
Mario Hartmuth - conductor
performed by the Staatstheater Kassel Orchestra

music by
Lepo Sumera and John Adams

rehearsal directors and assistants
Wencke Kriemer de Matos
Kasia Kizior

additional creation
Monika Witkowska

technical crew
Finn Jäger, Stefanie Dühr

Staatstheater Kassel dance director
Thorsten Teubl

duration
2x 40 min

premiered on
29th April 2022, Kassel, Germany
Staatstheater Kassel, main stage

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