The chin sits on the knee; the fingers are becoming entangled in the toes. The fingers lift one foot in the air after another. The folded woman is unsteady and her bottom is swaying over the stage. Next to her, a similar creature tries as much as it can to reproduce the same movement. They roll on their backs, they sometimes shove one another and they climb on each other.

In the dance performance »Headwalker«, a fantasy world is created thanks to an interaction of music, movement, dance and technical contacts specifically adapted to modelling clay. This word has its own period of time, its own sounds and its own form. The actions continuously dissolve themselves in order to create a musical and colourful whirl. There is always something happening, but the tempo overpowers nothing…

»Headwalker« is a mix between dance movements, pictures and music, all of it being in the perspective of discovery and pleasure. At the end of the play, the audience is invited to come on stage and play as they wish with the modelling clay!

The premiere of »Headwalker« took place on 26 September 2010 at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf.

Choreography/artistic direction: Barbara Fuchs
Dance: Odile Foehl, Emily Welther
Music, sound: Jörg Ritzenhoff
Live Sound: Barbara Fuchs
Photos: MEYERORIGINALS & Barbara Fuchs
Costumes: Cindy Karkkonen, Barbara Fuchs
Stage Design: Barbara Fuchs

Photo: Anke Schwarzer / Barbara Fuchs

A production by tanzfuchs PRODUKTION/Barbara Fuchs and tanzhaus nrw in the frame of Take-off: Junger Tanz. Tanzplan Düsseldorf, supported by Tanzplan Germany, an initiative by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the City of Düsseldorf, the Prime Minister of North Rhine Westphalia and the Arts Foundation NRW.

In the third and last part of the series »Der empathische Körper« (the empathic body), Silke Z. and die metabolisten put themselves and their audience to the test: They test the limits of empathy and throw themselves into absurd situations on stage, which resembles an arena, in order to win the favour of the audience.

The live sounds of sound designer Sarah Procissi and songwriter Nikolaj Grunwald drive the performers into an extreme display of their supposed individuality and uniqueness. What at the beginning seems like a “normal” casting show disassembles itself over time and at the same time pushes the machinery of show business to the extreme.

Die metabolisten challenge the audience to leave their comfort zone of anonymity and present them with a choice over and over again – it’s YOUR CHOICE!

Artistic direction + choreography Silke Z.

in collaboration with:
Moderation Caroline Simon, Hanna Held
Dance Meike Kattwinkel, Bettina Muckenhaupt, David Winking, Dennis Schmitz, Hartmut Misgeld, Jimin Seo, Manuel Kisters, Vivien Kovarbasic, Daniela Riebesam
Sound design Sarah ProcessI, Nikolaj Grunwald
Lighting design Garlef Kesler
Production management Charlotte Brune
Sound engineering + sound support Beppo Leichenich
Video animation Beni von Arleman
Management Hanna Held
Organisation Anna Boldt
Administration Carina Graf
Press relations Kerstin Rosemann
Photo + Graphics Stefan Henaku
Dramaturgy Lilith Giles
Guest choreography Laurynas Žakevičius, Airida Gudaitė

Thanks to neues lernen e.v., Nachtigall Culb, Compact Records.

Supported by/through process support of the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from Neustart Kultur, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Cooperation Fokus Tanz e.V., Junges Schauspielhaus Bochum, Albertus Magnus Gymnasium, ehrenfeldstudios e.V.

We cordially invite you to celebrate the first edition of the FamilyFestival at ehrenfeldstudios with us! Together with you – from big to small and young to old – we would like to experience a whole weekend of dance: With performances of the tanzfuchs production MUNCH! and a guest performance from Sweden by Eliisa Erävalo I am a tree, with our GrowthLab, punch and waffles. We will also present our new TANZ@HOME videos. 

On December 10 and 11, the FamilyFest will take place as part of our QUERFELDEIN series, with which tanzfuchs PRODUKTION regularly presents performances for children and young people in the ehrenfeldstudios. tanzfuchs PRODUKTION creates performances for young audiences in Cologne and can also be seen in other cities in NRW and throughout Germany.  

Schedule

Saturday 10.12.2022

13.00-17.00 h: GrowthLab

14.00 h: I am a tree  | A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three  

15.00 h: TANZ@HOME| Dance and movement to join in for the whole family with Ronja Nadler    

16.30 h: MUNCH!  | A dance and sound performance for all ages   

Sunday 11.12.2022  

11.00 h: I am a tree  | A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three  

12.00 h: TANZ@HOME | Dance and movement to join in for the whole family with Ronja Nadler  

13.00-17.00 h: GrowthLab

15.00 h: MUNCH!  | A dance and sound performance for all ages   

16.00 h:  I am a tree  | A choreographic performance for the whole family for everyone from the age of three