2019 Miniaturen
Miniaturen
diferentes realidades
- Recommended for ages 8 and older
- unning time:50 minutes
- Number of dancers: 3 or 5
Trailer Miniaturen
Team with 5 dancers
Trailer Miniaturen
Team with 3 dancers
“Miniatures” evolved from an engagement with children aged 9-12 and their life situations. MAFALDA met with children both in Switzerland and in Argentina and engaged in a discussion on crucial questions about their everyday lives, their dreams and their longings.
Questions such as: Do you think your current best friend will still be your best friend in ten years’ time?, What things are you better at than your parents or other grown-ups?, How many realities are there?, What actually is this thing we call destiny?, In what situation did you terribly miss someone?, When were you somebody
else?, When did you fight your own fear? were the starting point of those discussions.The children’s vivid imagination, their stories and drawings were turned into choreographies interacting with video pieces.
Together with MAFALDA’s dancers, the choreographer Teresa Rotemberg develops a choreographic language which draws on the core qualities of the childrens’ experience and expertise and offers them space and time.
As an international cooperation, “Miniatures” offers insight into a global context of children’s realities and it increases awareness of the living worlds and fantasies that can be discovered there.
Bonus
To accompany this piece we can offer workshops in which the companymembers will familiarise the children with some elements of the piece in an age appropriated way.
World première
July 20th, Tecnópolis (Argentina)
Swiss premiere
October 30th, 2019, Tanzhaus Zürich
Production
Verein Company MAFALDA
Team
- Artistic direction: Teresa Rotemberg
- Cast: Xenja Füger, Lucas Coria, Naomi Kamihigashi and Valeria Polorena, Lara Müller
- Research collaboration:Andrea Servera
- Assistance: Patricia Rotondar Video design: Michelle Ettlin
- Audio design and composition: Tanja Müller
- Costume design: Fausto Izzi
- Dramaturgy: Petra Fischer Concept: Ralph Blase
- Lighting design und technical direction: Adrian Grimozzi (ARG), Laurent Castella (CH)
- Production management (ARG): Paz Begué, Verdever
- Production management: Nicole Friedman, tanztotal
- Production assistance: Mentoring programme with class 5a, school Sihlweid Children from Villa 20 „La esquina hace arte“ in Lugano (ARG)
Supported by
Stadt Zürich Kultur, Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia im Rahmen des Programms «COINCIDENCIA – Kulturaustausch Schweiz-Südamerika», Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Karl Sophie Binding Stiftung, Südkulturfonds, Studio 1 Trainingscenter für Film und Medien
Special thank to:
Dagmar Pauli und Manfred Rütschle, Esther Lehmann, Wanda Puvogel
Coproducers
Tanzhaus Zürich, Parque Tecnópolis del Bicentenario, Ciencia, Tecnologia, Cultura y Arte and Gofechössi Theater, produced in Buenos Aires (ARG), Zurich (CH) and Lichtensteig (CH).