» Normal Dance. A Dance Piece by Antonia Baehr

“You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.”

Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

Normal Dance
With ‘Normal Dance‘, Antonia Baehr who has been working as a choreographer since about fifteen years, will sign her first dance piece. ‘Normal Dance’ is a dance trio that strives to integrate into the avant-garde of contemporary dance. She invites two friends to dance who have much in common with her; Mirjam Junker and Pia Thilmann. The three of them are based in Berlin and share the fact that their bodies are not trained for the type of activity usually required by contemporary stage dance. The three of them share the embodiment of female masculinity: firm grips, grounded supports, strength, bigness. It’s a trio for three butches who are butches, but at the same time they are many other things. The dance is written based on the three performers’ corporality, morphology and motor functions.

Dance and music occur in the same time and space, but run independently of one another. The music is a record-collection of contemporary experimental music by female composers spinned live by Djane CC emperatriz. The audience is invited to sit around the dance, in proximity to it.

Normal Dance

Dance Piece by Antonia Baehr. With Antonia Baehr, Mirjam Junker, Pia Thilmann

Concept: Antonia Baehr
Performance: Antonia Baehr, Mirjam Junker, Pia Thilmann
Choreography: Antonia Baehr, Valérie Castan, Mirjam Junker, Pia Thilmann, Maya Weinberg
Artistic assistant: Valérie Castan,
Movement research: Maya Weinberg
Technical direction and sound design: Carola Caggiano (DJane CC Imperatriz)
With music by (in progress): Magali Babin, Delya Derbishire, Sabine Ercklentz, Hanna Hartman, Annette Krebs, Christina Kubisch, Magda Mayas, Andrea Neumann, Pauline Oliveros, Les Femmes Savantes, Nancy Tobin, Miki Yui …
Light design: Miss Candless
Production management: Xenia Leydel
Internship: Joana Tischkau
Production: Alexandra Wellensiek / make up productions
Coproduction: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Schwankhalle (Bremen), DeVIR/CAPa – Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve (Residency)
Supported by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin
Thank you to: Lee Meir, Jack Smith, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Irene Revell (electra), Ida Wilde (Keren Ida Nathan), Theaterhaus Mitte, a.o.

‘Normal Dance’ (Premiere)

Normal Dance