SWAN FATE

by Ursina Tossi

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SWAN FATE is a queer feminist appropriation of the ballet classic Swan Lake. Ursina Tossi and her ensemble break with traditional concepts of love and fate and formulate their very own, diverse and contemporary declaration of love for dance. In SWAN FATE, the dancers play with longing, virtuosity, physicality and vulnerability and look for the traces that Swan Lake leaves behind in the choreography and in their bodies. They also engage with the legacy of dance, as well as the violent and colonial narratives and practices of ballet. To the music by the band CocoRosie, which was specially composed for the piece, not only different urban dance styles are mixed with contemporary dance. The dancers slide from one role to another. The shapeshifting between swans and humans, the change between marginalized and mainstream perspectives opens up new fantasies and imagines loving encounters between animals, humans and other beings.

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Team Swan Fate:

Artistic direction, choreography, concept:Ursina TossiStage:Raphaela AndradeCo-choreography & dance:Anne-Lene Nölder, Alexandra Filippidou, Chetan Yeragera, Cliff Huen Tin Yeung, David Pallant, Enting Zhang, Francesca Waehneldt, Laure Fleitz, Victor Gonzales CostumeDesign:Nina Divitschek & Meret Zürcher

Creative Production & Communication and PÖA:PIECE LIESELProduction concept:Ursina Tossi, Uta Engel, Sina Rundel CollaborationCostume:Daniela DreisigackerArtistic Audio Description:Rene Reith

Light design:Ricarda KonekeMusic:CocoRosiePerformance, DGS, Access Consulting:Dodzi DougbanVideo:Friederike HoeppnerSign language interpreting team:Anna Warler, Susanne Fritz, Marie-Wilhelmine Schaper, Kunigunde Schindler, Nicole Ostrycharczyk, and Barbara Widmann

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Many thanks to Liza Lamprecht.

Accompanied by Team Making Kin:

Andzejus Voroneckis (dramaturg with a deaf perspective), Anna Wieczorek (dramaturg, expert in dance studies), Humberto Acosta Rodriguez (expert in classical ballet), Monique Smith-McDowell (dramaturg, expert in contemporary and musical dance), Naomi Sanfo (expert in audio description), Nona Siepmann (assistant & expert for contemporary dance and pedagogy), René Reith (artistic audio description), Su Jin Kim (dramaturge, expert classical ballet), Susanne Tod (access consultation, DGS), Uta Engel (dramaturge; expert urban styles) , Yeliz Pazar

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SWAN FATE is a production by Ursina Tossi & EXCESSIVE SHOWING co-produced by Kampnagel Hamburg. Funded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Culture and Media (Elbkultur Fonds), funded by the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, supported by the Gabriele Fink Foundation. Many thanks to Huckepack Umzüge.

MAKIN KIN is a project by Ursina Tossi & EXCESSIVE SHOWING Funded by the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR