Mountains of Desire

Mountains of Desire

In MOUNTAINS OF DESIRE five dancers tell themselves and the audience about their hope for a better world. It is about the consequences of displacement and flight and about the difficult arrival in the new. The dancers tell about their departures, their escapes and their big and small dreams of life. Together they go in search of their own mountains of longing. Their memories and their diaries, a choreographer, a composer and a dramaturge help them. A polar bear also plays a not unimportant role.

MOUNTAINS OF DESIRE tied directly to discourses that were being negotiated at the time on a regional, national, and international level. The piece was given special relevance and model character by the fact that it was developed in close exchange with the environment of the production site Gesundbrunnen-Grundschule – a neighborhood in Wedding that is largely “far removed” from the arts, many with a migration background and characterized to an above-average degree by poverty, lack of work and general lack of perspective. Work on “Mountains of Desire” began back in 2017 during an international meeting of young dance practitioners from Berlin and Athens, organized in cooperation with the Gesundbrunnen Primary School in Wedding and led by Kosmas Kosmopoulos, a Greek-born choreographer living in Berlin.

Cast & Crew
Angeliki Anargirou, Maria Kandylaki, Nikoleta Koutitsa, Vasilis Arvanitakis, Eiji Takeda | Artistic direction, concept and choreography: Kosmas Kosmopoulos | Dramaturgical advice: Stella Dimitrakopoulou | Music and composition: Antonios Palaskas | Artistic advice and documentation: Gm Touliatou | Text: Kai Pichmann | Technical direction and lighting design: Dimitrios Stamatis | Set design: Michael Graessner | Production assistance: Khaled Rezek, Kai Pichmann, Marianiki Pagoni | Photography, video and documentation: Giovanni Lo Curto

Dates Berlin
May 25, 2018, 19:00
May 26, 2018, 19:00
May 27, 2018, 17:00
& DANCING SCOUT introduction with Dr. Angela Deutsch on May 26, 2018 from 17:30 to 18:30

UFER_STUDIOS (Studio 14)
Badstr. 41a, 13357 Berlin
U8 Pankstraße, U9 Nauener Platz, S-Bahn Gesundbrunnen.

Dates Athens
October 27, 2018, 20:30
October 28, 2018, 8:30 p.m.

Θέατρο Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών
(Theater of the University of Fine Arts)
Πειραιώς 256, 18233 Αθήνα
(Peireos 256, 18233 Athens)

Production
Initiative LUNA PARK and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in collaboration with Gesundbrunnen Elementary School, supported within the project “ANPASSUNGEN” by funding from the project fund of QM Badstraße as part of the federal program “Soziale Stadt”.

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