Trailer Park
tanzmainz / Moritz Ostruschnjak (Mainz)
Recommended for ages 14+ | Loud music
Social media have become a vast archive of gestures, dances and images of the body. In TRAILER PARK, Moritz Ostruschnjak and the tanzmainz ensemble explore how this digital archive becomes embedded in our perception – and how it shapes our understanding of bodies, community and reality.
Short video clips, viral gestures and online choreographies are transformed into a dance language that is both precise and exhilarating. The nine dancers select the material themselves, appropriate it and develop it into a rapid flow of movement driven by repetition, compression and unexpected ruptures. What appears infinitely reproducible online acquires physical presence and new meaning in the theatre. Appropriation becomes a creative process that transforms virtual source material into an immediate encounter.
Based in Munich, Moritz Ostruschnjak comes from the graffiti and breaking scene and is one of the most distinctive choreographers of his generation. Working with the outstanding, internationally acclaimed tanzmainz ensemble, he combines urban dance forms with conceptual precision and great physical intensity. The result is an energetic and multilayered evening of dance that makes the mechanisms of digital culture visible, revealing how images, gestures and algorithms shape our physical reality – and how dance can bring them back into a vivid, shared space of experience.ischer Text ...
Biography Moritz Ostruschnjak
Moritz Ostruschnjak was part of the sprayer scene for a long time, which is how he came into contact with breakdance and discovered his interest in contemporary dance. He first studied at the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich, later he deepened his dance training with Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. After that, he worked as a dancer for several years in Germany and abroad.
Since 2013 he has worked as a freelance choreographer in Munich and has created, among other things, the ensemble pieces Boids, Unstern, Autoplay, Yester:now, Terminal Beach and most recently Rabbit Hole in 2023.
His pieces have already been shown at numerous European festivals, and three of his productions have been invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland: Unstern in 2020, the solo Tanzanweisungen in 2022 and Terminal Beach in 2024. The pieces Tanzanweisungen and Autoplay were shown in Mainz at the tanzmainz festival #4.
Moritz Ostruschnjak is one of the Aerowaves Twenty21 Artists and was awarded the City of Munich Dance Promotion Prize in 2020. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Tanztendenz München e.V.
TRAILER PARK is his first production with the tanzmainz ensemble.
About tanzmainz
tanzmainz is the contemporary dance company of the State Theatre of Mainz, Germany, and has been directed by Honne Dohrmann since 2014. The team of 21 dancers work closely with a diverse production crew to create up to five premieres per season in collaboration with renowned or aspiring guest choreographers. tanzmainz endorses a professional ethos shaped by openness, mutual respect and motivation.
The members of the tanzmainz ensemble are fully trained artists who are interested in developing a close working relationship with the guest choreographers. tanzmainz sees itself as a place of creation, therefore all works performed are premieres that have been created at the State Theater of Mainz in cooperative projects involving our crew and our guests. tanzmainz strives to constantly expand its repertoire with innovative forms of dance and production, and aims to be a bridge between the state theatres of Germany and the independent scene.
tanzmainz last appeared at euro-scene Leipzig in 2022 with SOUL CHAIN by Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal.
Credits
Choreography Moritz Ostruschnjak Choreographic collaboration + Costumes Daniele Bendini Music Jonas Friedlich Dance Tanit Cobas, Réka Rácz, Meritxell Van Roggen, Paul Elie, Finn Lakeberg, Christian Leveque, Jaume Luque Parellada, Jaime Neves, Matti Tauru Lighting Tanja Rühl Rehearsal direction Simone Deriu Dance Director, tanzmainz Honne Dohrmann Production Finn Lakeberg Assistant to the management + Touring Hannah Meyer-Scharenberg Stage technology + Sound Luka Curk Lighting technician Dominik Hager Stage management Matthew Tusa Guest performance support Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the ministries of culture and the arts of the German federal states Creation Staatstheater Mainz, 18 November 2023
Production Staatstheater Mainz
https://www.staatstheater-mainz.com
Guest performance support
Trailer Park (Photos: Andreas Etter, De-Da Production)
Main Supporters
euro-scene leipzig is institutionally supported by the City of Leipzig and the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Culture and Tourism. Co-financed by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.