Die Begehrenden – a dance theatre piece

Premiere: 28 September 2020 at 8 pm at Theaterhaus Stuttgart T3.
Further performances: 29 and 30 September at 8 pm each.

© Daniela Wolf

The new production by JV & Team deals with desire as an existential condition of being human. Inspired by Denis Diderot’s dialogical rambling novel “Jacques the Fatalist and his Master”, in which the servant binds his master to himself by recounting adventures in love, we question the way desire is dealt with today, in a neoliberal, enlightened and consumerist society.

© Daniela Wolf
© Daniela Wolf

“Dear sir, one spends three quarters of one’s life wanting to act without acting”. (Denis Diderot, “Jacques the Fatalist and His Master” Winkler Verlag, Munich. 1979)

© Daniela Wolf
© Daniela Wolf

Participants

Choreography, direction and production management: Juliette Villemin.

Dramaturgy and text development: Johanna Niedermüller.

Dance, performance: Anika Bendel and Johannes Walter.

Acting, performance: Robert Atzlinger.

Music editing: Benedikt Immerz.

Image and graphics: Daniela Wolf.

Lighting and technology: Ingo Jooß.

Dates & venues

Premiere: 28 September 2020 at 8 pm at Theaterhaus Stuttgart T3.

Siemenstrasse 11, 70469 Stuttgart. Tickets at: www.theaterhaus.com and 0711 402 07 -20/-21/-22

Further performances: 29 and 30 September at 8 pm each.

Conveyor

Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart, Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V., with funding from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg and the Foundation of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.

The cooperation partner is the Produktionszentrum Tanz+Performance e.V. Stuttgart.