In the dance performance, the ensemble Juliette Villemin & Team explores individual and social fears and brings them out of hiding onto the stage.
It sits in our bones, brings beads of sweat to our foreheads and makes our pulse climb to our throats. Fear is a fascinating emotion that can both paralyse and inspire us. It ranges from dull anxiety, lightning-like fright to a pleasant creepiness.
But what does it trigger? How does it feel physically? And how does it influence our actions? PHOBIAGORA approaches this emotion through moving images.
Inspired by the sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who found metaphors for her fears in her famous “Cells” – enclosed cell-like spaces – the performance also creates “places of fear”.
Four characters face their fears. They question their biographies, jump over their shadows and also confront the audience with the many faces of fear.
The project was based on a survey designed for this purpose, which served as a source of inspiration.
Participants
Idea, direction & choreography: Juliette Villemin
Dance: Marina Grün, Kirill Berezovski, Verena Wilhelm, Johannes Walter
Media, Room: Nadja Weber
Graphic: Natalia Paschkevich
Costumes: Julia Poerschke
Music Production & Composition: Benedikt Immerz
Technical direction & lighting design: Alexander Joseph
Press relations: Marie-Christine Kesting
Dates & venues
Premiere: 24 October 2018, further performances: 26 and 27 October 2018
Theaterhaus Stuttgart, T4
Conveyor
The 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.
Cooperation partner
Production Centre Dance+Performance e.V. Stuttgart
Press commentary:
“Juliette Villemin’s dance performance “Phobiagora” traces an anxiety that is omnipresent right now.”
A “strong image and a bizarre bow to Louise Bourgeois.”
(Stuttgarter Zeitung, 25.10.18)
“Phobiagora proves itself through a skilful mix of humour and seriousness”.
(tanznetz, 25.10.2018)