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A Dancer's Odyssey talks about the body as a space of history, marked by concepts of family, society, necessity and desire. It puts into question if a body could become a portraiture of its own story and where its story starts. Inspired by finishing the sentence "A Dancer's Odyssey" German choreographer Jan MÖLLMER and six dancers from the South of Taiwan invite spectators to explore their roots and stories on why they dance.
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Anchored in the center of an audience which sits in a circle the dancers move, talk and chat with them. They search to shorten the distance between performer and spectator trying to lay open their personal dance story. Using performance material created from visits to places of their own memory such as family homes, their first dance studios or birth places, they attempt to establish a space in which a true telling of their story is possible.
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The performers ask:
\n\nWhat if my body could be a portraiture of my own history? And where does this history start? And how do I tell YOU about it? Jan MÖLLMER dedicates this work to challenges of communication in the social context of society. Times of political distress, wars and global pandemics make it important for us to put our histories out there and to put them to discussion. "The more we are governed by political leaders and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible". -Alan Rickman
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Post-Talk
\n\n2024/11/29(Fri) Crown Hall 3F (East Terrace)
\n\n2024/11/30(Sat) Crown Hall 3F (East Terrace)
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Creative and Production Team
\n\nChoreographer|Jan MÖLLMER
\n\nLighting Designer|Faye HUANG
\n\nRehearsal Assistant|CHEN Ying-chi
\n\nPerformers|WANG Yu-jie, LIN Man-ting, KE Gui-ting, KO Kai-feng, CHEN Pin-ni, HUANG Cheng-wei
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Artist Introduction
\n\nJan MÖLLMER
\n\nJan MÖLLMER, born and raised in Wuppertal, Germany, began dancing after being part in the production of Kontakthof -with teenagers by Pina BAUSCH. He studied dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Jan joined the Folkwang Tanzstudio Company and is a guest dancer at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since 2013. He then collaborated with theater director Dimitris PAPAIOANNOU and performed his work Transverse Orientation from 2020 to 2022, touring over 30 cities worldwide. Together with Taiwanese choreographer TIEN Tsai-wei he founded the dance company Peculiar Man which produces and spreads their choreographic work in Germany and abroad. Since nearly 10 years Jan has deepened his artistic research between Germany and Taiwan, including collaborations with Taiwanese dance and circus companies, art institutions and universities.
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Special Thanks:
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