Legend has it that skateboarding was born when low waves forced surfers out of the water and onto the tarmac in Los Angeles. Since then, skateboarding has developed into a unique choreography. It plays with the surfaces of our cities and appropriates public spaces with daring tricks. And now finally, this movement art is also conquering the theatre: together with a group of skaters and dancers, choreographer Mette Ingvartsen transforms the Frankfurt LAB into a skate park. She adds clickflips, 180s and boardslides to the usual dance vocabulary – a vivid reminder of her youth, when she was a skater herself. The energetic performance playfully pushes the boundaries of what is possible and creates a utopian community in which the differences between skateboarding and dance, between high culture and subculture, theatre and street no longer play a role.

Concept & Choreography: Mette Ingvartsen
With: Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary Pop Wheels, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Bîrzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus, Arthur Vannes, Camille Gecchele, Mathias Thiers, Bob Aertsen
Local Skaters: Oskar Kern, Thalia Choubardas, Bruno Schlosser. David Lebuser, Kai Rajkumar, Geovaughni Solomon, Christian Kessler
Sound Design: Anne van de Star, Peter Lenaerts
Light Design: Minna Tiikkainen
Music: Felix Kubin, Mord Records, Why the eye, sonaBLAST! Records, Rrose, The Fanny Pads, Restive Plaggona
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejić
Costumes: Jennifer Defays
Set Design: Pierre Jambé/Antidote
Technical Development of Set: Stéphane Thonnard
Set Construction: Werkstätten des Théâtre National Bruxelles: Joachim Pochet, Joachim Hesse, Pierre Jardon, Yves Philippaerts, Andrea Messana, Boyd Gates
Technical Director: Hans Meijer
Sound Technicians: Milan Van Doren, Yrjänä Rankka, Filip Vilhelmsson
Light Technicians: Bennert Vancottem, Jan-Simon De Lille
Assistant Choreographer: Jacob Ingram-Dodd
Child Wranglers: Billie Meeussen, Victor Perez Hernandez
Production and Administration: Joey Ng
Production: Oihana Azpillaga Camio
Communication: Jeroen Goffings
Management: Ruth Collier

Das Gastspiel ist ein Projekt des Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm im Rahmen der Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, in Kooperation mit Concrete e.V.

Eine Produktion von Great Investment vzw. In Koproduktion mit La Danse en grande forme (Cndc – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN2 – Grenoble, La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val de Marne, CCN – Ballet national de Marseille, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse – Occitanie, La MC2 – Grenoble), Ruhrtriennale, Wiener Festwochen & Tanzquartier Wien, La Villette & Théâtre Chaillot, deSingel, Kaaitheater & Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Next Festival, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, Theater Rotterdam, Perpodium.

Gefördert durch die Fondation d’entreprise Hermès und den Wilhelm Hansen Fonden. Ermöglicht durch Residenzen bei Rosas, Charleroi danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, deSingel.

Great Investment wird gefördert durch The Flemish Authorities, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC), Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government & The Danish Arts Council.

Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessian State Ballet, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich und Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marschner Foundation, ODDO BHF Foundation, Foundation Polytechnic Society Frankfurt am Main].