Beach Birds

Collaboration with Die Neue Kompanie

Lights on! Cellphone off! The New Company is here. The company members shamelessly sample and quote, they copy or steal. Looking to establish her own artistic expression, Helen has found the right companions: Angela, Guy, Edda, Giovanni.

What is the unmistakable element that characterizes them? What is the company aesthetic that differs from other groups? What do they want and what can they share with the world? They throw their bodies together, they play “spin-the-bottle” and push limits of the imaginable. With great hopes to create an unforgettable group performance, they dig up choreographies, ideas and visions of their idols and old masters. In addition to swarms of birds, »Flashdance« or the »Nelkenline« of the Wuppertaler Tanztheater also other grandmasters find their place in the show.

Beach Birds – the Dancical is a 60 Minute dance performance that challenges our romantic longing for togetherness in a world that puts the ego first. Trying to find a group model of the future, the company continues to look back at a time when dance and movement represented social utopias and visions that differ greatly from the current one of owning a McFit membership. Let’s stand with the five performers on the shoulders of our dance giants and enjoy the view.

Premiered in 2017 at K3 - Centre for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg
In German language

CREATIVE TEAM
BY AND WITH Helen Schröder, Angela Kecinski, Guy Marsan, Edda Sickinger, Giovanni Zocco 
STAGE & COSTUME DESIGN Thea Hoffmann-Axthelm 
MUSICAL TRAINING Uschi Krosch 
DRAMATURGY Heike Bröckerhoff 
DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTANT Anne Kersting 
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Katharina Irion 
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Renske Ebbers, Anne Pretzsch

A Helen Schröder production in co production with K3 - Centre for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg and Ballhaus Ost, Berlin. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.