Imagine they are dancing again: Under the motto “Imagine” there are guest performances in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Offenbach. The future of the festival is secured for the time being.
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“Lovetrain” by Emanuel Gat celebrates the wave music of “Tears for Fears”.
(Photo: Julia Gat)
FRANKFURT – “The lockdown has sapped our creativity and strength.” Anna Wagner and Bruno Heynderickx, curators of the Rhein-Main dance festival, admit in advance how much they were affected by the premature end a year ago: the fifth dance festival came after the first The weekend fell victim to the pandemic. Now they are announcing the sixth edition (October 28th to November 14th) with 18 productions that will be shown in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Offenbach. “Imagine” (imagine) is the motto. It should be about the process of artistic imagination.
The Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat introduces himself with two pieces in the highlighted portrait series “Spotlight”. At the beginning of the festival, his company will be showing “Act II & III” as the German premiere in the Frankfurt LAB on October 28 and 29 – the greatest frustration arose at the moment when Gat and his troupe wanted to play in the theater in Metz but couldn’t because of Corona . “We have to do something,” was the feeling of the troupe, the choreographer recalls. And so the new piece was created within ten days in the closed theater, which deals with two acts from the opera “Tosca”. Actually, instead of the unplanned creative workshop, Gats troupe should have shown the piece “Lovetrain 2020” to music by “Tears for Fears” – to be seen on November 7th in Darmstadt.
In the more than two weeks of the festival, many other program items will be presented by international as well as regional artists such as Joana Tischkau from Frankfurt, who started with hip-hop as a teenager and is now presenting the piece “Being Pink Ain’t Easy” about the machismo of the scene (8 . until November 10th in the Mousonturm).
The future of the festival is secured for the time being. The Kulturfonds Frankfurt-Rhein-Main finances three further editions. Topics such as disability and barriers, school and mediation, but also forms beyond western aesthetics should then be the focus. For the period after 2025, the head of the Kulturfonds, Karin Wolff, is calling for institutional funding from the participating municipalities and the state of Hesse. After ten years, the dance festival would also have a solid foundation.
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