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D|S°DANCE film

March 2020: first lockdown. Home offices, zoom meetings, streaming, virtual stages and bars - all over the world people are catapulting their cultural and social lives onto the internet. Karen Bößer is setting up a new ensemble. She wants to know how it actually works when you want to produce something new at a distance. Four performers at four locations are formed into one ensemble via internet streaming - supported only by a technical suitcase sent by post. Under Bößer's direction, their movements are captured with zoom and mobile phone cameras, by bodycam and with the help of the auto-follow mode. With much joy, humour, poetry and technology, they reflect on the lockdown situation and experiment with the new possibilities. Is it possible to create new performance art via streaming? Is it possible to dance with each other at a distance?
The project is complemented by the film editing of concept artist Dirk Dietrich Hennig, who combines the different narrative levels into a unique experimental film debut.
DIS°DANCE Film is an attempt to overcome boundaries: Boundaries of space, of the physical, of communication, of physical intensity, of empathy. What comes out of it makes you want to break down all these limitations in everyday life as well.

D|S°DANCE film

A film project by Karen Bößer & Dirk Dietrich Hennig
art director: Karen Bößer & Dirk Dietrich Hennig
performance + camera: Karen Bößer, Taneli Törmä, Neus Barcons Roca, Ingo Reulecke  
Film score: Thomas Klein aka Sølyst
Film editing: Dirk Dietrich Hennig
Project management: Petra Prahl and Jacqueline Friedrich
Public relation: Jacqueline Friedrich
Social media strategy:  Laura Jil Beyer
Graphik design + website: UX/UI Design Jan B. Mwesigwa

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, and by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative Support Program Dance, and by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf. A production by karen-boesser-projects.

www.disdancethefilmproject.com