THIS IS A PREMIERE

This unusual collaboration brings together two strong personalities of the international dance world for the first time. Cristiana Morganti and Emanuele Soavi share the stage: the long-standing protagonist of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, now a freelance choreographer, and the choreographer influenced by William Forsythe and Jiří Kylián, who has been directing his company Emanuele Soavi incompany in Cologne for thirteen years. As performers and authors, they explore their understanding of art and theatre in an interplay of words, gestures and dance – and at the same time question their origins. They are an Italian woman from Rome and an Italian man from Ferrara, who have lived and worked mainly in Germany for over twenty years.

THIS IS A PREMIERE is a choreographic space for memories. A play with found objects, a reassembly of experiences. Scenes from earlier pieces and personal experiences condense into physical reflections, giving rise to new ideas, associations and images.

The result is a pointed portrait of two artistic life paths - and a critical discussion of the current codes of the dance world: fashions and trends, unspoken expectations and clear restrictions, as well as increasingly stringent production requirements. Cristiana Morganti and Emanuele Soavi stage themselves – and do it with so much wit and self-irony that the supposed narcissism turns into a wonderfully playful commentary on art.