Previous Projects
Fragments from Life with Dementia
A Dance Performance in Three Voices and Four Acts
2023
Dementia in old age is one of the most common diseases worldwide. According to the WHO, there are currently 55 million affected individuals, with approximately 10 million new cases reported annually. For two years, the poet Andrea Zittlau visited four women with dementia in a care facility and, inspired by their conversations, composed poetic texts. The resulting fragments from life with dementia uniquely reflect the daily lives and memories of those affected.
Cultural scientist Heike Hartung has been studying dementia narratives in literature for years, offering alternative interpretations through gerontology of cultural knowledge. This cultural knowledge and the poetic fragments on dementia have now been translated into a musical and movement performance by choreographer Katharina Schlegel, composer Nimai Fascher, and narrator Charlotte Marie Peters. The result is a dance performance, funded by the Kulturfunken Lübeck, which will be premiered for the first time at the ZKFL
Fairy Tale Workshop
2023
Lyrical Fragments from Sex Work - A Performance.
08/20/2021
Sex work is an important and much-discussed social issue that often deals with binary positions on the sale of sexual services. Yet sex workers often have only a limited say in the matter. The poet Andrea Zittlau met with three women who are involved in sex work and from long conversations created poetry that portrays people in sex work and does not reduce them to their activity. Thanks to a funding from Kulturfunken, these texts could now be staged as a performance in Lübeck. The words of a sex workers were premiered at three different locations. Thus we learn from the (working) everyday life of a Romanian, a Brazilian and a German, three very different women with very different experiences, motivations and desires. The texts were spoken by Charlotte Peters, with music by Nimai Fascher. Choreography by Katharina Schlegel.
Body Mapping. An atlas.
2020
The theme of the body mapping is the year 2020 and how it was experienced on a personal level with the senses and emotions of individuals. The place depicted is not one that is usually expected on maps. Instead, one moves through one's own body and shows what participants perceived with their body through their environment. On the digital map, there are body maps and specific body regions distributed on them. Similar to a collage, there are different areas that can be viewed; this is done here by zooming in on the respective body regions. The centre is formed by four superimposed body maps in a large circle. Four selected areas, tongue, head, belly and ears, are distributed on this circle. As an interactive and participatory map, there are various ways to view and change the map. After a short introduction, the tour through the map begins with a mediation with the help of which one can create one's own body map. This is followed by the four parts of the body for which voluntary tasks have been formulated. Moving through the map in presentation mode, each task and the participants' contributions to it can be viewed in turn.
The mapping of senses and emotions expresses a critique of the methodology and focus of conventional mapping in several ways. Unlike most modern maps, it is not based on the typical quantitative data and allows for a different, qualitative approach to the map.
It allows for a different, qualitative approach to the map using one's own emotions and senses as a starting point. Often maps are just a way of perceiving the environment, it was important to us to create one where data is collected and used in a way that shows the individual. Aspects such as emotions, feelings and experiences of individuals are sometimes not shown on maps in favour of the majority. Here, however, such things should also be recognised as having their own important place in cartography. It was important to us that the map remains as free as possible, without too many rules or structuredness. The possibility to express thoughts freely should be given without restricting the participants. The act of making a map is not only in the hands of experts and what is shown and how it is presented can be determined by the participants themselves. Insights can be created in the mapping process itself instead of only in the end result.
The project enables an alternative view of 'space', one focused on the people who are in it. This challenges the usual understanding of what a map is, what it is supposed to show and also what its purpose is. We consider this especially important when looking back at the past year 2020. It was a year in which many spent more time alone in their own bodies. The aspect of social distancing in life due to the coronavirus changed the perceived space around people. Therefore, we consider it important to examine this space, the one space that everyone could enter and experience in many ways despite everything.
The map is inspired by the "body as territory" method. Trying out non-traditional, unfamiliar mapping methods and realizing something new in the process appealed to us. Further inspiration was drawn from various playful, interactive exercises and maps representing emotions.
"Once upon a time there was a very confident girl." Whether Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella: The stories of the Brothers Grimm are often carried by female figures and offer a large number of feminine characters. But are all heroines princesses waiting to be rescued?
In a film screening followed by a workshop for children and parents, the Irmãs Grimm series takes a fresh look at women in Grimm's fairy tales: accompanied by artist Carolina Marcos Caldeira, author of the book Mural da História, and actress Charlotte Marie Peters, visitors learn * to stage their impressions and reinterpretations within the two workshops using the means of shadow play and marionette theatre.