© Synthtati
Third Skin
Duration 60 min.
Premiere: 12.10.2023 at 20:30 pm
Further performances on:13.10.2023 at 20:30 pm, 14.10.2023 at 20:30 pm, 15.10.2023 at 19:00 pm
Shows in 2024: 26.01 and 27.1.2024 Tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
Credits:
Artistic Direction, Choreography, Performance, Text, Stage: Ana Lessing Menjibar
Dramaturgy and Text: Isabel Gatzke
Music Composition: Ana Lessing Menjibar, Philipp Kullen and Nikola Pieper
Drums, Synths and Sound Design: Philipp Kullen and Nikola Pieper
Costume: Gesine Försterling
Mantón Sculptures: Ana Rajcevic
Light: Elliott Cennetoglu and Joseph Wegmann
Voice Coach: Juan Cárdenas
Outside Eye: Alberto Cortés and Lina Gómez
Production Management: Saskia Schoenmaker
Creative Production: Sofie Luckhardt
Photo and Videodocumentation: Synthtati
»She is the daughter of two creatures that fought against silence. Against the silence that keeps the feelings inside like intestines. Against the silence that mutes the dead. But the womb is still fertile from which that silence crawled…«
The performance »Third Skin« by the German-Spanish choreographer and artist Ana Lessing Menjibar is a poetic response to the opening of her family history, encountering experiences of war and fascism, collective as well as individual wounds and stories of political resistance of three generations.
In resonance with this confrontation and as reflections on the present, the artist - in close collaboration with the dramaturge Isabel Gatzke and her team - creates a fiction of a Chimera in constant metamorphosis. »Third Skin« is an energetic cosmos of body, sound, rhythm, language, and sculptural objects. Here, states of resistance and porosity emerge and collapse, while the skin, as a permeable surface, bears the markers of time.
In a hybrid space between installation and stage, Ana Lessing Menjibar addresses the (body) knowledge inherent in flamenco and reassembles it with her specific, transdisciplinary working method with elements from visual arts, contemporary dance and electronic music composition. By decoding and recoding movement material, new referential spaces emerge in which historically evolved structures, cultural and political references as well as a mythological world can be experienced in a multi-sensory way.
»Third Skin«, a production by Ana Lessing Menjibar in co-production with tanzhaus nrw. Made possible by funding from Hauptstadtkulturfonds. In collaboration with Uferstudios Berlin. Supported by Goethe Institut Madrid and Instituto Cervantes Berlin. The preceding research project »GROWING Third Skin« was supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Thank you Synthtati & Tránzforum Berlin for the video documentation
