Termine
- 07.11.25, 20:00 o'clock
PREMIERE | Ringlokschuppen Ruhr - Bühne 1, Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr - DE
- 08.11.25, 20:00 o'clock
PREMIERE | Ringlokschuppen Ruhr - Bühne 1, Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr - DE
- 22.11.25, 19:30 o'clock
Stadttheater Herford – DE
Productions
- Foto: Breno Caetano
- Foto: Breno Caetano
- Foto: Breno Caetano
- Foto: Breno Caetano
Beasts & Bodies
A piece about beasts and trust.
About the production
Beasts have always been part of our imagination. They appear in myths, stories and characterise pop and entertainment culture. – They come in countless shapes and forms. But it is only in our imagination that they unfold their true greatness. They embody the uncontrollable - the untamed that both frightens and fascinates us. We fear them and yet feel irresistibly drawn to them. Their outward appearance reflects our innermost self: our fears and deep longings. Beasts represent what we believe we can control and yet secretly long for – instinctuality, impulsiveness, raw power.
The bestial transcends boundaries - temporal, cultural and physical. It is unruly and defies rigid categorisation. The beast is neither animal, nor human, nor machine - possibly it goes even beyond the idea of having a body at all. Beasts have always exerted an undiminished fascination on us - perhaps because we never quite know where they end and we begin. So what if the real beasts are not lurking in the shadows, but are already living inside us?
Overhead Project creates a moving panorama of collective myths. An impressive play with gravity unfolds on the border between acrobatics and contemporary dance, between body and imagination - and becomes a multi-layered exploration of the archaic and what is yet to unfold.
Beasts & Bodies is the first part of the series ‘Transgressing bodies’ in which the Overhead Project company explores the boundaries of collective imagination over the course several years.
Team/Mitwirkende
Artistic direction, choreography: Tim Behren
Performance, Creation: Leon Börgens, Francesco Germini, Mijin Kim, Greta Salgado, Maiol Pruna Soler
Dramaturgy: Anna Menzel
Musical Composition: Simon Bauer
Costume design: Fa-Hsuan Chen
Outside Eye: Breno Caetano
Technical Direction: Philipp Zander
Production: Lisa Lehnen, Lukas Zimmermann
PR, Management: Mechtild Tellmann
International Rleations: Valentina Barone
Finance Administration: Aileen Berndt, Lena Peters
Partners & Supporters
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the NRW-Spitzenförderung.
Co-produced by Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.
The research preceding this project conception is made possible by a research grant from the Kunststiftung NRW.