Common Ground:

We create utopian facts - a transcultural mass meets the birth of a peaceful coexistence.

With Common Ground we bring what we have in common onto our sports mat. We mix up old rules and create a new game. Between minimalist movements, dramatic poses, joyful mat sliding, a musical crossover of Western and Middle Eastern sounds, we search for our common dreams.

Will this common ground keep us together or will it separate us? Is it a game - a true utopia? Or just a faded memory of our childhood days?

Concept & Idea: Yuval Halpern & Silke Wiegand
Performance: Laura Hrgota-Jannene, Aleksandra Maria Ścibor Infinity & Silke Wiegand
Composition: Yuval Halpern

Musicians: Leana Alkema, Danielle Barash & Wael Mohammed Alagha
Lighting-Design: Gregor Knüppel
Production: SHADEseasons

With support by the Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst and the Naspa Stiftung.

Funded by the Frankfurt LAB - Emerging Artists Program 2022, with the kind support of the Crespo Foundation and the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main as well as the BHF BANK Stiftung and the Adolf and Luisa Haeuser Stiftung.

Thanks to the Amt für Bau und Immobilien and the Sportamt of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the Fabriksporthalle, the Linnéschule, the Helmholtzschule and the Schwarzburgschule.

DANCE FLOOR 2022:

Welcome to the capitalist ruins, dear tourists! 

Bring some sun protection, cause we will sweat in the middle of the arena of a former socialist luxury hotel. Haludovo Palace Hotel and the dance floor have been waiting for you and us all. Let's come together next to the blue blue sea to listen to our glory holes accompanied by a feminist music album: 700WET risks juicy sounds to seduce our missing libido in pandemic and capitalist ruins. 

Let's stay with the ruins, be wet and weary, silly and horny, angry and depressed. Now and then. 

Yours truly, 
the self-organized stage creatures

In English
 
Concept + Performance: Ana Dubljević, Kasia Kania, Marja Christians
Music: 700WET / Marja Christians + Cid Hohner
Dramaturgical support: Zrinka Užbinec
Light Design: Dana Maxim
Conceptual support + production assistance: Liesa Harzer
Production: Marja Christians / Tender Fights Productions

With the support of: Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur Niedersachsen, Stiftung Niedersachsen und Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt/ Main.

*Funded by the Frankfurt LAB - Emerging Artists Program 2022, with the kind support of the Crespo Foundation and the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main as well as the BHF BANK Stiftung and the Adolf and Luisa Haeuser Stiftung.

Thank you to Andrea H. Catalá, Damir and Sandra Dorčić, Haludovo Palace Hotel and all the tourist that witnessed our rehearsals.