PRISMA

Three dancers are on the stage. Two are lying on top of each other; a third, wearing a bizarre fur costume, is sitting motionless beside them. “Prisma” starts gently with the dancer in the fur costume making slight movements, instantly capturing the children’s attention. Like a prism fanning out white light into a multi-coloured ribbon, the piece then becomes a display of colourful variety. With different dance styles, tempos and movement formations, the dancers impressively show the rich diversity of dance.

“Prisma” is based on various children’s stories that conjure fascinating worlds: from the fantastic, like in Where the Wild Things Are, to the microscopically small, where a strange figure appears, and that of metamorphosis, where a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Like in a daydream, situations and objects become detached from their everyday meaning and are seen in new lights. The children’s wide potential for interpretation is both explored and stimulated.

While we all see the same things, everyone has their own, individual point of view. This piece asks: How can we celebrate these differences, as additional colours in the rainbow of different perspectives?

Choreography: Rotem Weissman
Dance: Susanna Yilkoski, Shay Kukui, Rotem Weissman
Concept and creation: Rotem Weissman, Jin Lee, Jihun Choi
Video trailer: Lili Koss and Hanna Schaich
Music: Tai Rona
Costumes: U.Kaiju, Han Lai
Dramaturgy: Susanne Schneider
Artistic support: Ceren Oran
Production manager: Alina Feldman

A production by explore dance – Netzwerk Tanz für junges Publikum, a cooperation of the partners fabrik moves Potsdam, Fokus Tanz / Tanz und Schule e.V. Munich, K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden. Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR Hilfsprogramm Tanz, the Department of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, the City of Potsdam and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg as well as by the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art and the City of Dresden.