CERCLES, Boris Charmatz’ new choreographic happening for Wuppertal, welcomes all bodies, all cultures and all generations. It is a score of circular dances, performed by 200 participants aged between 17 and 89, including amateurs, dance students and dancers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Already in Greek theatre, the stage was round. Choreographers have been interested in the spatial form of the circle for centuries, from ancient times to the present day.
Charmatz takes the circle literally and lets his choreography flow into a cycle that leads to ever new endless movements, gestures and folkloric formations.
Who is inside, who is outside? The circle as a cocoon, a raging crowd or a wall of bodies – agile, combative, captivating.
Anyone who likes to move is invited to join the warm up before and the dancefloor with Rebeka Warrior after the performance.
and Kyann Aghsaei, Andrea Ahrendt, Stefanie Alex, Manuela Apladas, Susanne Aring, Asma Asadizadeh, Ute Bach, Lisa Backhausen, Bianca Baierl, Marie Luise Barkhoff, Deliah Amadea Barkow, Flora Barreteau, Nuno Barreto, Natascha Baumhauer, Susann Beck, Irmgard Behn-Korn, Alina Belyagina, Lilith Bodenkamp, Manfred Bölkow, Ulrike Böttcher, Thomas Braus, Daniel Breuer, Natascha Buck, Eva Buse, Karla Butterfield, Anke Büttner, Viola Cantù, Regaip Cetin, Dimitris Charitopoulos, Bernhard Dähne, Bernhard Dehler, Uschi Demmerle, Jutta Dollbaum, Corinna Dönges, Katharina Droste, Ursula Düme, Estella Dvorak, Ralf Ebert, Volker Enkrodt, Lisa Evels, Edeltraud Evels, Julien Febvre, Heiner Flötotto, Esther Gado, Giordana Garofalo, Ottmar Geberbauer, Jutta Geike, Hartmut Göhlich, Ivo Görlach, Susanne Grundmann, Marieluise Grzella, Gabriele Häck, Natalie Heinrichs, Burkhard Heinzel, Käte Henin, Petra Herhausen, Thomas Hilbig, Evelyn Hinz, Angela Hinz, Nora Holtgreve, Eva Hornhardt, Sabine Hotho, Liudmila Ilina, Christina Kaiser, Isil Kalpkirmaz-Rizaoglu, Jasmin Kapitza, Mustafa Karadag, Thorsten Kater, Jochen Kehr, Jörg Kelle, Sevim Kesbir, Alexandra Kholkina, Svenja Kick, Margarete Killian, MiJung Kim, Ralf Kirschke, Sabine Kiunke, Anke Klammer, Astrid Klee, Julia Klonek, Christian Koether, Bettina Köhncke, Heidi Kottmann, Natalia Jowita Kozakiewicz, Stephan Krespach, Hildegard Krüger, Carlotta Henrica Kühntopp, Franjo Kukolja, Henrike Lambeck, Amelie Lammers-Bosch, Sagitta Lampe, Eva Lange-von Au, Mattias Lask, Leonard Lauterbach, Ulrike Lawrenz, Aline Lebrun, Birgit Lenz, Chujun Li, Christine Loges, Paula Lück, Traudel Malunat, Isabelle Malz, Livia Marschall, Riccarda Martin Garcia, Nadine Martin-Kömmet, Dimitria Matsaiotaki, Katharina Matthes, Zahra Mechergui, Christian Menge, Renate Menicke, Jörg Michel, Églantine Michelat, Kathrin Mildner, Heike Müller, Michael Müller, Barbara Müller, Hannelore Münch, Barbara Naguib, Dorotėja Navickaitė, Eugen Neuloh, Christin Nickles, Bernd Niedzwetzki, Marie Niemann, Ivanna Osío Pedret, Lia Palsbröcker, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Hildegard Peters, Claus Marius Petersen, Matthias Pingel, Heidi Pittner-Esser, Marjan Radfar, Katharina Randerath, Ralitza Ranguelova, Loretta Rex, Giancarlo Rizza, Paula Bernardo Rodríguez, Michaela Rohde, Ricarda Rommerscheidt, Gloria Rosenkranz, Karoline Rossi, Lisa Rückwardt, Barbara Rüdiger Mastandrea, Claire Ruppli, Renato Sbardelotto, Hannah Schabacker, Tanja Scheelhaase, Winfried Schilke, Alina Schmidt, Lea Schmidt, Uwe Schorn, Leon Schüchen, Svitlana Shuhailo, Wolfgang Sommerfeld, Dagmar Sommerfeld, Polina Sonis, Gabriele Sonnen-Trittien, Christa Stadler, Anny Stalzer, Ralf Steinhoff, Monika Stender, Brigitte Stratmann, Adnan Taha, Dorothee Taha, Marietheres Teipel, Alexandre Tessier, Elisabeth Trimpop, Diana Turukalo, Dorothee Uffmann, Almut Urban, Anna van Aalst, Roza Verroioti, Alexandra Verra, Jörg Stephan Vogel, Matthis Volkmar, Melanie vom Bauer, Wolfgang von Au, Ingrid Walter, Ruolan Wang, Leda Waßong, Heinz-Jürgen Waterkamp, Janneth Wegener, Hans-Dieter Westhoff, Anja Wunderlich, Dohee Yoon, Marlene Zapfe, Yang Zhong, Carsten Zur
Thanks to
François Aubry, Régis Badel, Stephan Brinkmann, Guilhem Chatir, Olga Dukhovna, Heiner Fragemann, Julien Gallée-Ferré, Birger Hense, Andreas Jacob, Michael Kieckbusch, Lutz Kottmann, Ulrike Langer, Simon Le Borgne, Johanna Elisa Lemke, Perig Menez, Ralf Pollmeier, Chris Pölking, Vera Sander, Constanze Schellow, Harald Scheuermann-Gieseks, Hartmut Semke, Klaus Sewald, Azusa Seyama-Prioville, Alexandra Szlagowski, Asha Thomas, Helmar Trompelt, Solène Wachter, Birgitta Wolff, Cndc Angers, WSW-Wuppertaler Stadtwerke
CERCLES is a contribution to the preparatory phase of the Pina Bausch Centre and is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Wuppertal, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal and Barmenia.
CERCLES was presented for the first time in public at the Festival d'Avignon 2024.