A Theaterhaus Stuttgart production

Uprising
Choreography & Sound Score: Hofesh Shechter
Lighting Design: Lee Curran commissioned by The Robin Howard Foundation | Additional Music: Vex'd | Stage & Costum Design: Hofesh Shechter | Staging: Bruno Karim Guillore, James Finnemore, Christopher Evans

Killer Pig
Choreography: Sharon Eyal–Gai Behar
Sound Artist: Ori Lichtik | Lighting Design: Kevin A. Jones | Costume Design: Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar | Staging: Leo Lerus, Tom Weinberg

Minus 16
Choreography: Ohad Naharin
Excerpts from Zachacha (1998), Anaphaza (1993), Mabul (1992)
Costume Design: Ohad Naharin | Lighting Design: Avi Yona Bueno | Music: Soundtrack from “Cha-Cha de Amo”, Popular song arranged by Dick Dale, Traditional song arranged and performed by the Tractor’s Revenge and Ohad Naharin, Nisi Dominus by Vivaldi, Song by Arlen Harold arranged by Marusha, Frédéric Chopin et al. | Staging & Assistant to the choreographer: Shahar Binyamini
Duration: 120 minutes with intermission

Please contact Deborah Wandel (deborah.wandel@theaterhaus.com) for checking the evening’s cast before publication!

Full speed ahead! Gauthier Dance presents a programme which shows contemporary dance at its most dynamic – full of power and energy and striking a distinctly personal note. The central theme: The choreographers are all natives of Israel who, today, collaborate with major companies all over the world. What's more, all three productions marked an important step in their artistic careers.

In Uprising, Hofesh Shechter explores the extremely physical, virile side of dance. The seven male performers, all barefoot and casually dressed in T-shirts and trousers, are wavering between insecurity and aggressiveness, a longing for companionship and the urge for dominance. The mood is dictated by the music: harsh rock sounds, electronically distorted, composed by the trained percussionist Shechter himself. A strong statement that adds a whole new colour to contemporary dance.

Gai Behar and Sharon Eyal, for many years a dancer and later Resident Choreographer with Ohad Naharin's Batsheva Company, achieved their international breakthrough with Killer Pig. The duo is to create an extra version for Gauthier Dance – cast with six female dancers like in the world premiere, and condensed into 30 radical minutes. In the context of MEGA ISRAEL, the rough style and precise movements of Killer Pig make for the ideal counterpart to Shechter's Uprising. We see enigmatic Amazons in perfectly synchronized formations and desperate outbursts, coolly debunking all clichés of female dancing.

The third piece is Minus 16 by Ohad Naharin – the long-term Artistic Director of the magnificent Batsheva Dance Company who is widely regarded as the greatest master of dance from Israel. After the great success of Kamuyot, the creator of the Gaga method trusts Gauthier Dance with another production. Save that one should rather call it THE production... After all, Minus 16 is Naharin's signature piece which became iconic soon after the premiere in 1999. Like in a kaleidoscope, the choreography combines diverse episodes, musical material and moods which Naharin continually re-arranges and modifies. Whether it is the raw energy emanating from a circle of dancers on chairs, chanting powerful Jewish traditional Echad Mi Yodea or the rapture of a pas de deux set to Antonio Vivaldi's setting of Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) – Minus 16 offers an intense experience for both the dancers and the audience.

Artistic Director: Eric Gauthier
Ballet Mistress: Takako Nishi
Ballet Master: Guillaume Hulot
Company Coach: Egon Madsen
Technical production manager: Mario Daszenies
Artistic coordination stage set & costumes: Gudrun Schretzmeier
Production management: Alexandra Brenk
Artistic management: Lisa Beck
Press relations: Nicola Steller
Tour management: ecotopa dance productions
Dancers: Garazi Perez Oloriz, Anna Süheyla Harms, Rosario Guerra, Anneleen Dedroog, Sandra Bourdais, Maurus Gauthier, Luke Prunty, Alessio Marchini, David Rodríguez, Alessandra La Bella, Nora Brown, Francesca Ciaffoni, Jonathan dos Santos, Réginald Lefebvre, Barbara Melo Freire, Theophilus Vesely

Production team Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Costumes: Kerry Rees, Christine Lange, Katja Holzwarth, Aische Weber, Ramona Wunderlich
Freelancers: Katharina Ruprecht, Ahmad Edries
Wardrobe: Heidi Dávila García, Katja Holzwarth, Kerry Rees, Ramona Wunderlich
Props: Beate Mergel, David Fitzgerald
Stage set assistance: David Fitzgerald
Stage construction: Marc Dobmaier, Max Hochreiter
Lighting engineering: Mario Daszenies, Lorenz Uhlig, Mathieu Arnal

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