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42.
42.

Close your eyes and imagine: We are sitting together at a big table. We laugh, reminisce. The smell of the sea. Everything is right. Everything makes sense.

42 is the supercomputer’s answer to the question of the meaning of life in Douglas Adam’s novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. A vague answer – even after several million years of computing time. Will we find out more? What makes life meaningful? 42 people have shared with us their very personal answers. We play them on.

Wild and poetic, loud and quiet, between dissonance and harmony, the international ensemble moves on an oversized playground where anything is possible and anything can happen.

What is really important? How do we use the short time we have left in this world? How do we make a difference? More and more fervently, we are searching for answers. No wonder – after all we have experienced in the last months! No wonder – in view of current wars and destruction! No wonder – in view of all the shocks to which our lives are exposed.

Because imagine, we wake up and everything was in vain….

Choreography Tobias Spori
Direction Ann Katrin Cooper
Music Carla Wierer
Light  Patrick Etterlin
Set Design Ann Katrin Cooper & Tobias Spori
Construction Set Design Sam Neff
Costumes Elina Kim
Outside Eye Vanessa Cook
Dance Egon Gerber, Elina Kim, Giulia Tornarolli, Victor Rottier, Sebastian Zuber
Tour Companion Marianne Neff-Gugger
Video Kristian Breitenbach
Production 
pARTner

Coproduction by POOL – Raum für Kultur, Walzhalle Münchenstein
With generous support from Kanton St.Gallen/Swisslos, Stadt St.Gallen, Kulturförderung Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Steinegg Stiftung, Bertold Suhner Stiftung, Dr. Fred Styger Stiftung, Metrohm Stiftung, Farner St.Gallen AG, Gemeinde Teufen, Ortsbürgergemeinde St.Gallen, Susanne und Martin Knechtli Kradolfer Stiftung, TW Stiftung, Johannes Waldburger Stiftung, Huber Suhner Stiftung, Tisca Tischhauser Stiftung, Arnold Billwiller Stiftung

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NOW.
NOW.

We wait. And no longer know ourselves why we only hope idly that things will get better. Waiting.

NOW. Now we need to get up, leave the familiar space – the rigidity, the silence, the transit. We need visions for the future. Because we know: it can’t go on like this. What keeps us from thinking concretely and radically? And to act?

In NOW. figures, seemingly out of time, dare to sketch their ideas and visions for the world of tomorrow. Outside the already known and at the risk of being seen as dreamy and naïve.
They ask themselves: What could happen? They rethink values, they share their ideas, they sharpen the notions of what could be.

Choreography Tobias Spori & team
Dramaturgy Ann Katrin Cooper
Set Design Caroline Stark
Ligthdesign Tobias Spori
Sounddesign Ann Katrin Cooper & team
Light and Assistant Nicole Kobler
Video Kristian Breitenbach
Photography Cyrill Hertz
Producer pARTner

Dancers Egon Gerber, Elina Kim, Marco Rizzi, Giulia Tornarolli, William Hayibor Venous

Co-produced by POOL – Space for the arts

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ULYSSES
ULYSSES

Based on the novel by James Joyce, the Panorama Dance Theater wanted to “wander” through the experiences of Leopold Blum with dancers*, actors and a musician. The narrative style is understood as an inspiration for the development of secondary cosmos, in which other times and spaces open up.
James Joyce consistently adheres to the stream of consciousness, the “stream of consciousness” and thus achieves the greatest possible proximity to the characters in his novel. Words and sentences are incomplete and themes change abruptly in the middle of a sentence. The thoughts of several people overlap, street noises or snippets of thoughts briefly penetrate consciousness, and everything blurs into a single impression. Following this narrative style, we will tell not one, but a wealth of stories…

 

Director Ann Katrin Cooper
Choreography Ann Katrin Cooper und Tobias Spori
Producer pARTner
Dancers Aurora Bonetti, Giulia Tornarolli, Jarek Kruczek, Kay Kysela, Tobias Spori

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COINCIDENCES
COINCIDENCES

We move through space and time. Other people cross our paths. Some of these encounters seem random, fall into oblivion. Others, no less by chance, have a great influence on the progress of our path. They change direction, interweave or create disharmony. In any case, however, they change us – we emerge from them as other people.

coincidence is a sensual homage to these coincidental encounters, which, however inconspicuous they may be, have a decisive influence on our lives.

coincidences was selected for tanzfaktor 2016.

Choreography Ann Katrin Cooper & Tobias Spori
Dance Tobias Spori, Vanessa Cook/Sandra Klimek
Production pARTner