Datum der Aufzeichnung: 24.01.2014

Ort: TQW / Halle G

In Abecedarium Bestiarium the Berlin choreographer Antonia Baehr invited her friends to write compositions for her that are based on an ABC of extinct animals: D for Dodo, T for Tasmanian tiger, S for Steller’s sea cow… The authors choose an extinct animal that they feel a connection with. Thus choreographic miniatures are created in which they reflect their kinship to the selected animal, as well as their friendship with Antonia Baehr.

The audience follows Antonia Baehr in her solo from letter to letter – from D to Y, from F to N, etc. – while she explores the border area between humand and animal in various styles and modes. Abecedarium Bestiarium deals with beings that have fallen into oblivion and whose shimmering difference was not sufficiently effective to ensure the continuation of their species. Here the author and her friends are just as absent as the extinct animals. Their presence can only be imagined or evoked.

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CONCEPT, PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE: Antonia Baehr

WITH COMPOSITIONS OF: Frédéric Bigot (electronicat), Pauline Boudry, Valérie Castan, Lucile Desamory, Vinciane Despret, Sabine Ercklentz, Dodo Heidenreich, Christian Kesten, Keren Ida Nathan (Ida Wilde), Andrea Neumann, Stefan Pente, Isabell Spengler, Steffi Weismann, William Wheeler et. al.

ARTISTIC COLLABORATION: Valérie Castan

LIGHTNING DESIGN: Sylvie Garot

SOUND: Manuel Coursin & Eric Yvelin

SOUND DIRECTION: Carola Caggiano

PRODUCTION: Alexandra Wellensiek

PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: Sarah Blumenfeld, Barbara Greiner

TRANSLATION: Guillaume Cailleau, Sabine Macher, William Wheeler

SUBTITLES AND VIDEO CALIBRATION: Guillaume Cailleau

HOSPITANZ: Elisabeth Leopold

VIDEO RECORDING: Angela Anderson

COSTUMES: Patty Eggerickx, Steffi Weismann, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Antonia Baehr

THANKS TO: Angela Anderson, Lindy Annis, Bettina von Arnim, ausland, Ulrich Baehr, Silke Bake, Carola Caggiano, Uli Ertl, Walton Ford, Elisabeth Freeman, Ulrike Melzwig, Wolfgang Müller, Conrad Noack, François Noudelman, Alain Roux, Pauline Schroeder-Baehr, Marlène Shaw, Christiane & Arnulf Spengler Gertrude Stein. Special thanks to Beursschouwburg (Brüssel)

COPRODUCTION: steirischer herbst, Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon – as part of the project Jardin d’Europe,

SUPPORTED by the European Commission, ]domaines[ (Montpellier), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Les Subsistances (Lyon), PACT Zollverein (Essen) und Tanzquartier Wien

CREATION AND RESIDENCY: Les Subsistances 2012 as part of A Space for Live Arts

COPRESENTATION: NXTSTP, supportet by the cultural programme of the European Union

In January 2014 the publication "Abecedarium Bestiarium. Portraits of affinities in animal metaphors", Hg. far° festival des arts vivants, Nyon/ make up productions, Berlin, is available through: Books on the move, www.booksonthemove.eu