Category: performance

LAND WITHOUT WORDS by Dea Loher

‘It is, I cannot describe it any differently, a pointlessness which also enters words and leaves them without meaning. Something natural gets destroyed. The normal process, the safety, of putting my feelings and experiences into words is broken.

Dea Loher/speech to the awarding of the Bertolt Brecht Award, 2006

When language is not enough anymore to put experiences into words, when art has reached its limits – and then? After her travels through the war marked Afghanistan in 2005, the dramatist Dea Loher describes that state: ‘It is, I cannot describe it any differently, a pointlessness which also enters words and leaves them without meaning.’ The artist collective missingdots shows an interdisciplinary performance over the loss of naturalness.

Premiere: 20.02.2020 | HELLERAU European Centre of the Arts
Acting: Julia Amme
Fine arts: Svea Duwe
Dance: Kristin Mente
Choreography: Nora Schott
Direction: Nora Otte
Light design: Martin Mulik
Photos: René Zieger

Sponsors:
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz Dresden
Collaboration partner:
HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts

HERO togo

Prison Chemnitz

Development of a play with imprisoned women at the Prison Chemnitz

Premiere 2016

Who is my hero in life? What is my achievement? What hero would I want to be?

Heroes of the everyday world are searched and found: your colleague, your friend, your own daughter, your lawyer, the unknown person, with whom you share a heroic moment. Fictional heroes say their wishes out loud. Fighting heroes strike a pose and silent heroes get a chance to speak.

The play was shown at the Prison Chemnitz for other prisoners.

Direction and development of the play: Julia Amme, Katja Heiser

Performers: imprisoned women at the Prison Chemnitz