Home for Now / 2011
Home for Now is an interdisciplinary dance and art performance dealing with all the expressions, faces and facets of ‘being at home’ in a global
society. As in a collage of image, dance, text and music - all different aspects are melted in a poetic performance, the correlation with the audience
being an important part of it. The spectators will not only be part of the setting, but they will also have their personal effect on the atmosphere
and the characterization of ‘being at home’.
We invite to bring a picnic to the performance.
Choreography / Dance: Karen Boesser, Marie Goeminne
Skypeguests: MadhaPPy
Videoart: Dirk Dietrich Hennig
Sound / Music: Ansgar Tappert
IT Specalist:
Jan Bashaijha Mwesigwa
Coach: Caterina Pecchioli
Performance Places:
Forum Freies Theater
Sponsor / Funding: Department of Cultural Affairs, Düsseldorf, Van Meetren Foundation, supported by Dansmakers Amsterdam
Coproduction: Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf, Germany
Production: Karen Boesser
Press review:
Rheinische Post / 29.04.2011 / Von Melanie Suchy
Aside in a waiting position Karen Boesser and Marie Goeminne lift off a key ring and a glass up and down and sideways. Their short dance show
with big arm swings is the cheerful greeting. Home for Now of the Düsseldorf choreographer Karen Boesser is devoted to feel at home, or more
precisely the place that is a temporary home. A very current subject in times of flexible working life .. A duet between proximity and distance. Now
table and spectators are cleared to the side and a dance appears again: a duet that evolves from proxinity to distance. First the dancers lean
towards each other as if together the would shape a tent. They support each other on their shoulder, legs and back, rest like laying in bed on the
floor and rolling over each other. One lifts up the other in the air. Then they face each other, like a mirror and move with eye contact. Eventually
they dissolve and first walk together and then separate ways. This is a bautiful half-hour about a relationship towards a room or to a person.
An exciting recent experimental dance theater pieces celebrated its premiere in Düsseldorf FFT. / Von Björn Nussbächer / 30.04.2011
HOME FOR NOW choreographed and performed by Karen Boesser and Marie Goeminne did not only surprised by its directness, but also turns
out to be subtle as well as an intellectual and sophisticated multi-media dance experience. Even at the beginning of the piece, the audience is
deprived of their familar approach and immediately after entering the room the audience finds itselft to be part of a scene. Postum an interactive
situation arises, where the audience has to decide to be an active or a passive participator in “Home”. In a very experimental stage setting, the
audience is encouraged to bring homemade food to the table and to seek the conversation with the performer and spectators to relax and to
observe the scenaries. Suddenly, a live Skype broadcast to Florida takes place. An artist family on the other side appears. MadHappy talks about
personal things, of love and madness and sings and plays the accordion. At the same time boths performers Karen Boesser and Marie Goeminne
moderated and commented this when slowly silence arises and the two dance a wonderfully poetic and physically-demanding performance. The
end of the play approaches and take s place metaphorically in a garden. Home for Now is playfull in its combination of dance, video art,
multimedia and interactive with the audience. This may seem disturbing, can displace people in order to bring them back together and to end up
to question oneself: What does it mean to be at home or to have a homeland? It is exciting to see that the multimedia communication revolution
and a disorientation of homefeelings has arrived for the most parts in the physicall dance scene. The question of perception that a more and
more expanded multimedia-networked world can mean a more and more fragmented world and how we will react as human beings will keep me
at breath more often nowdays.
Photos: Copyright by Dirk Dietrich Hennig 2011
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