CRASH! Deal with it
2024 Performance
Premiere 09.11.2024 / Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld
HARTMANNMUELLER and his team have created with ‘CRASH! Deal with it’ a powerful and self-reflective examination of one of the seven basic human emotions: RAGE. This socially tabooed emotion is illuminated and examined by the performers from different perspectives. They use the stage space as an opportunity to create a safe space – a venue in which anger can be actively felt and acted out. The audience is drawn deep into the human emotional world, while the boundaries between reality and staging become blurred. What fears, physical reactions and memories are associated with anger and why is anger suppressed in the first place? ‘CRASH! Deal with it’ offers a performative reconciliation with anger.
The production ‘CRASH! Deal with it’ is part of an overarching thematic research project on the topic of anger that HARTMANNMUELLER is conducting from 2024 to 2026. The social dynamics and effects of this ambivalent emotion will be explored artistically. Through bodywork and choreographic methods, HARTMANNMUELLER aims to gain a deeper understanding of anger in society and find new ways of expressing it.
A production by HARTMANNMUELLER, in co-production with Fabrik Heeder / MOVE! – 23rd Krefeld Days for Modern Dance. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Kunststiftung NRW.
Idea/Concept: HARTMANNMUELLER
Choreography/Performance: Simon Hartmann, Daniel Ernesto Mueller,
Felix Ersig, Lenah Flaig, Virginia Segarra Vidal
Music/Composition/Video: Fabian Schulz
Stage/Costume: Katrin Lehmacher
Technics/Lighting: Philipp Zander
Outside Eye: Anna Bründl
Head of Production: Susanne Berthold
Production Assistance: Lian Heüveldop
Press and Public Relations: Ann-Charlotte Günzel
Photos: Katharina Kemme
