Performative Tour Across The Slag Heap
Dates:
18.30 h
Event location
The event will take place on the Zollverein slag heap. Meeting point is at 6:30 p.m. at PACT Zollverein.
Sergiu Matis ›Earth Works‹, Shifting Grounds 2025 © Dirk Rose
To kick off the summer festival ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹, a performative tour will take place across the slag heap. The works approach the landscape from various perspectives: through dance, voice, sound, and choreographic arrangements that directly connect the body and the environment.
With Anna Ehlert, caner teker, Annamaria Ajmone, Alma Söderberg, Jan St. Werner & Madison Greenstone
Dates:
18.30 h
Event location
The event will take place on the Zollverein slag heap. Meeting point is at 6:30 p.m. at PACT Zollverein.
PROGRAMME
Anna Ehlert – Talk about the biodiversity on the Zollverein slag heap
Talk
Anna Ehlert, Sustainability and Environmental Management Officer of Zeche Zollverein, opens up a view of the slag heap as a living landscape. Over drinks, she introduces the industrial nature of the site – barren soils, wild vegetation, surprising habitats, and the unique interplay of mining history and biodiversity.
© Dirk Rose
Annamaria Ajmone – ›La notte è il mio giorno preferito‹
Performance / Dance
In ›La notte è il mio giorno preferito‹, Annamaria Ajmone explores the figure of the “Other”. Emerging from the atmosphere of a nocturnal forest, a choreography unfolds that explores speculative kinships between bodies, animals, plants, and materials.
1 / 2 © Natalia Trejbalova
Concept, Dance Annamaria Ajmone Research, Dramaturgical Collaboration Stella Succi Music Flora Yin Wong
Concept, Dance Annamaria Ajmone Research, Dramaturgical Collaboration Stella Succi Music Flora Yin Wong
caner teker – ›untitled‹
Performance / Dance
In the solo ›untitled‹, caner teker examines how resistance, vulnerability, and perseverance are physically articulated. On the slag heap, the body becomes a political terrain.
© Eike Walkenhorst
Choreography, Concept caner teker Performance Rayne
Choreography, Concept caner teker Performance Rayne
Alma Söderberg – ›Infinétude / small version‹
Performance / Dance
Alma Söderberg presents a version of ›Infinitude‹, adapted for three performers as a sensual, rhythmic journey across the slag heap. Inspired by the intensity of flamenco, a multi-layered composition emerges – somewhere between concert and dance performance – in which movement, voice, and thought are interdependent, and emotions become physical.
1 / 2 © Elin Berge
Concept, Choreography Alma Söderberg Performance with and by Anja Müller, Roger Sala Reyner, Alen Nsambu, Eliott Marmouset, Anna Fitoussi, Alma Söderberg Performance and adaptation for ›Infinétude / small version‹ Anna Fitoussi, Alen Nsambu, Bee Brown Dramaturgy Igor Dobričić Lighting design Sandra Liscano Costume Behnaz Aram Scenography Pol Matthé Technical Direction Imre Zsibri
With sung and spoken text, quotes and paraphrases by the performers, Etel Adnan, Édouard Glissant, Josef Albers and Isabel Escudero.
Production Sofia Wickman Distribution Giulia Messia
A production by Alma Söderberg Studio, in Koproduktion mit Norrlandsoperan, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Moderna Dansteatern MDT, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Skogen, INKONST, Kunstencentrum BUDA - NEXT festival.
Funded by Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne.
Alma Söderberg Studio is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Malmö.
Concept, Choreography Alma Söderberg Performance with and by Anja Müller, Roger Sala Reyner, Alen Nsambu, Eliott Marmouset, Anna Fitoussi, Alma Söderberg Performance and adaptation for ›Infinétude / small version‹ Anna Fitoussi, Alen Nsambu, Bee Brown Dramaturgy Igor Dobričić Lighting design Sandra Liscano Costume Behnaz Aram Scenography Pol Matthé Technical Direction Imre Zsibri
With sung and spoken text, quotes and paraphrases by the performers, Etel Adnan, Édouard Glissant, Josef Albers and Isabel Escudero.
Production Sofia Wickman Distribution Giulia Messia
A production by Alma Söderberg Studio, in Koproduktion mit Norrlandsoperan, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Moderna Dansteatern MDT, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Skogen, INKONST, Kunstencentrum BUDA - NEXT festival.
Funded by Swedish Arts Council, Region Skåne.
Alma Söderberg Studio is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and the City of Malmö.
Jan St. Werner & Madison Greenstone
Performance / Music
The tour concludes with a sound performance by Jan St. Werner and Madison Greenstone, set in a hallucinogenic, mirage-like soundscape that draws on the acoustic properties of Ulrich Rückriem’s stone sculpture "Castell" and transforms the site itself into a resonant space.
1 / 2 © Weston Olencki
Sound, Elektronics Jan St. Werner Sound / Clarinet Madison Greenstone
Sound, Elektronics Jan St. Werner Sound / Clarinet Madison Greenstone