Anna Konjetzky & Co

tomorrow…we…were… // Reviews

tomorrow…we…were… // Reviews

Virtuously put through the (timeline) wringer

Tanznetz // Munich, 27/09/2024 // Author: Vesna Mlakar

“(…)The independent dance scene in Munich, on the other hand, is currently taking off. The great thing about it is the high degree of
abstraction with an affinity for association and the great joy of playing – above all physically and embedded in cleverly arranged
acoustics (sometimes played off-stage, sometimes directly on stage).
In Anna Konjetzky’s new dance piece “tomorrow…we…were”, six dancers in pastel-coloured suits are stuck somewhere between a
glorified past and an aspirational, rainbow-coloured future. Sonorous and visual effects – dramaturgically interwoven in a
meaningful way – transform the hour-long performance into a veritable whirlwind. An image that also settles in the mind because of the set design. “
“Virtuously put through the (timeline) wringer“

tomorrow…we…were…

M 94,5, cultural magazine Sekt Mate

…definitely breaks with the cliché that nostalgia is a benevolent view of the past. „tomorrow… we… were…” is a dance performance in which six dancers take a critical look at this almost glorified view of the past.

…these breaks create an effect of reflection. And this is exactly what Anna Konjwtzky is aiming for here: if we glorify the past and mourn an unrealistic version, then we are blocking our own view of the future. Because somehow we only think and dream backwards, and then we move in the same direction.

tomorrow…we…were…

tomorrow…we…were…

World premiere  25./26.9.2024 / 20 Uhr / Muffathalle München

tomorrow…we…were…

A dance piece by Anna Konjetzky

6 dancers deal with nostalgia, with holding on to something that is supposedly better, with looking back to yesterday but wanting to move forward. Nostalgia is currently a strong driving force again, both individually and in society as a whole, not just as an exit from an uncertain present, but as a vision of the future. The performers move in a half-pipe pulled apart, jumping up, letting themselves fall, simultaneously moving forwards and backwards in their dynamics. Yesterday / All my troubles seemed so far away – a song like a lifeline. But can we turn the past fantasy into a future fantasy?

Team

Choreography, Stage:  Anna Konjetzky // Music: Sergej Maingardt // Video, Light: Joscha Eckert // Costume: Dimos Klimenof // Dance: Matteo Carvone, Sahra Huby, Amie Jammeh, Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Quindell Orton // Dramaturgical advice: Maxwell McCarthy // Stage Construction: Klaus Hammer // Pr: Simone Lutz // Production: Elsa Büsing

Partners & Support

A production by Anna Konjetzky & Co in Coproduction with Muffathalle Munich. Supporters: Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and BLZT, Bayerischer Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz, with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art.

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tomorrow…we…were… // Reviews

Virtuously put through the (timeline) wringerTanznetz // Munich, 27/09/2024 // Author: Vesna Mlakar“(…)The independent dance scene in Munich, on the other hand, is currently taking off. The great thing about it is the high degree of abstraction with an affinity for...

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songs of absence // Reviews

songs of absence // Reviews

Anna Konjetzky «Songs of Absence»

Salzburg

der-theaterverlag.de // March 2024 // Author: Carmen Kovacs

Not every loud work is a good work – but this one is. Anna Konjetzky has something to say that must not disappear. In Munich, she and her team have been a ground-breaking institution for many years, actively seeking, facilitating and shaping local and international connections and networking within the dance scene. Songs of Absence”, which premiered at the Munich theater festival “spielart”, can be understood in the context of this exchange, as part of a queer-feminist, socio-politically anchored artistic practice.

While the focus is urgently on making voids visible, on the forgotten and repressed, this content is presented in a charming album structure. Two stand-up microphones are positioned in a semicircle of projection screens, indicating from the outset that there is a lot to say. And indeed, the text, the pronouncing and addressing, the swallowing, mutating and virtuoso morphing of words and sentences into one another play a key role. In an almost symbiotic relationship with the soundtrack (Sergej Maingardt), the phenomenal cast of seven performers leads us through embodied attitudes, personal address, ecstatic speech, rap, slogans, poetry. Some moments of expressing become a difficult birth, the movement a side effect of the meaning.

How all this looks in movement language seems secondary in many moments anyway – and yet the forms of expression are so concrete and specific that the experienced choreographic directive behind them can be clearly felt. Sometimes they are static images, beautiful complications in which the bodies slip in and out of each other, supporting and holding each other. And sometimes they are liberated dance phrases that conjure up the affirmative power of movement. At one moment you see the group obsessively working on itself. And in the next, an electric guitar being worked on by two performers with objects and made to sound in wild ways.

We experience gestures of negation, which in the collective performance become affirmative gestures of togetherness, a sisterly embrace. We watch an ensemble that has its resources under control and understands its self-empowered approach right down to the design of the light. The craftsmanship and dramaturgy are so good that at times you forget what it is actually about. Fortunately, the finale is a caring slap in the face that tells you whether you’re still there.

On the bright side of the shake

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 06.11.2023 // Authors: Yvonne Poppek/Egbert Tholl

In beautiful contrast, there is the world premiere of “songs of absence” by Munich choreographer Anna Konjetzky, conceived like an album, interspersed with strong images, cleverly positioned in a feminist way.

The art of playing

Abendzeitung München, 02.11.2023 // Author: Vesna Mlakar

Songs of absence” is full of lyrics (…) Powerful words, peppered with thoughts that continue to have an effect on her – inwardly – violently moving performance. (…) Emotionally, the whole thing escalates into an increasingly agitated enumeration that culminates in a hiccup of vowels that are merely uttered one by one. Again and again, words get stuck in the throats of the seven dancers. (…)
Anna Konjetzky is well versed in the art of playing with content and form. But the choreographer, who has been regularly staging dance pieces characterized by a socio-political debate in Munich and around the world for 18 years now, is never merely concerned with the formal. Her almost insatiable desire to impulsively and thematically capture an audience seems to be too great. And this is exactly what Konjetzky succeeds in doing thanks to her famous protagonists Sahra Huby, Amie Jammeh, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Jin Lee, Quindell Orton, Martha Pasakopoulou and Hannah Schillinger.

Luna Park

Luna Park

World Premiere June 17, 2010, Dortmund

Luna Park

A dance and theatre co-production

Shifting from the trivial to the enigmatic. On the discovery of the banality in cities

“Luna Park” is the metaphor for the sheer quantity of images and impressions to which people are exposed in metropolises; a “crazy” world, an amusement park of the superficial, the loss of the needed leisureliness. The human drifts through and surrenders to the flood of images. The co-production partners BIS (Body Process Arts Association – Istanbul) and artscenico performing arts (Dortmund) in cooperation with Anna Konjetzky (Munich) create the theme “City life – stress and contemplation, tradition and modernity.”

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Partners & Support

A dance and theatre co-production by artscenico performing arts, the Theater im Depot, the Istanbul Festival “Amber” and Anna Konjetzky from Munich.

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6. – 7.11.2010
Istanbul Amber Festival
28. – 29.10.2010
München – “Dance” Festival
17. – 18.6.2010

Abdrücke

Abdrücke

World premiere 11 June 2010, Festival Danse Balsa Marni, Bruxelles

Abdrücke

First Part of the double Abdrücke/Abdrücke folgen

Abdrücke and Abdrücke folgen are two dance installations for one dancer. Two images that are like the same image’s positive and negative. In focus: a dancer looking for traces of her own being – which are constantly blurred. The body is the mooring rope to the self; a matter that can be measured, drawn, touched, described and displayed. And observed: the audience’s voyeuristic point of view in Abdrücke turns in Abdrücke folgen rather to dancer’s inside. In Abdrücke exists only the self. The “I” in hundredfold reflections, always reflected back on itself. Without hope of self-reassurance in the view of the other. Only the room exists – geometrical, hard, cold and bright, covered with mirrors and without any possibility to look outside. In this room the dancer tries to find, scrutinize and define herself. She turns, twists, as if every inch of her body should be cataloged. She documents her outlines on many slips of paper; these are portraits that she throws outside through narrow slits. Every piece of paper isan anchor of her existence. The spectators, however, are granted an unobstructed view, not only into the box because it is lit from the side of the spectators and thus transparent, but also because of a camera that projects images from the inside onto a wall. And while the breath of the dancer is fogging up the box and obfuscating the view, the camera’s larger-than-life image stays on.

Abdrücke is part of the double Abdrücke/Abdrücke folgen, as well as an independent work.

Abdrücke Folgen

Team

Choreography, Space, Lighting: Anna Konjetzky // Dance, Choreography: Sahra Huby // Video: Marc Stephan

Partners & Support

“Abdrücke” is funded by the Bayerischen Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz (BLZT) with funds from the Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, and the artist-in-residence at the Glasshouse Tel Aviv, Israel. With the friendly support of the carpentry Moritz Köster.

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11.6.2016
meetfactory Praha
14.5.2016
St. Petersburg new stage Alexandrinsky theater
16. – 17.12.2014
cricoteka Kraków
18.9.2014 – canceled for boycott reasons
Jerusalem
15.9.2014 – canceled for boycott reasons
Tel Aviv
18.8.2013
Ghent
1.6.2013
Porto
23.7.2012
Fürstenfeldbruck Kulturnacht
2. – 3.6.2012
München Muffatwerk Festival Rodeo
31.5.2012
München Muffatwerk Festival Rodeo
24.2.2012
Dresden Tanzplattform Deutschland
4.11.2011
Unidram Potsdam
1.10.2011
Bruxelles Nuit Blanche
3.7.2011
Klagenfurt Positionen 011
26. – 27.6.2011
München Muffatwerk
28.5.2011
Nürnberg, Blaue Nacht
16.4.2011
Salzburg Performancetage
5.12.2010
Eupen out of ostrale
14.11.2010
Tanztage Regensburg
15. – 16.10.2010
München – Festival digital analog
22. – 23.9.2010
la Chaux-de-Fonds Festival Antilope Suisse
17. – 18.9.2010
Dresden ostrale
27. – 28.8.2010
Schwerte – Blue Night Welttheater der Strasse
11. – 12.6.2010
Brüssel théâtre de la Balsamine festival Danse Balsa Marni
8. – 9.6.2010
Düsseldorf – tanzhaus nrw Festival Now&Next