Dance piece by Fabian Aimar and Günther Grollitsch

Bauhaus has left a lasting impression on our homes, on everyday things, on our entire society. The school’s creative reform impulses continued to have an impact, even though the Bauhaus was closed by the National Socialists just 14 years after it was founded. In 1924, school founder Walter Gropius formulated fundamental concerns: “How will we live, how will we settle, what forms of community do we want to strive for?” The production “Made in Germany – Bauhaus!” searches for current answers.

101 years after the founding of the Bauhaus, the fundamental question arises as to how we deal with unfamiliar artistic and social positions today. Are they accepted, actively sought out, supported? How can new ideas and impulses from art, culture and society become fruitful as an impetus for changing political systems? And what about the tension between individual freedom and collective creative processes? In concrete terms, how can the dancing body fit into a form without losing its individuality?

Even today, the Bauhaus still stands for a clearly socially transformative aspiration. It used its great creative potential not only for social housing projects, but also to spread a basic understanding of democracy – in which women were admittedly only included to a limited extent. “Made in Germany – Bauhaus!” translates these findings into powerful choreographic images. The radical break with the conventions of ballet becomes just as visible as the fascination of completely new, geometricized

forms of movement. Clamped in trapezoids and triangles, the dancers’ bodies become experimental objects – prototypes of a modernity that strives for a new self-image in a mixture of minimalism and personal emancipation.

It is always about the search for an essence: of movements, of attitude, of world view. Günther Grollitsch choreographs the approach to this claim together with the seven-member ensemble, based on the original idea, concept and dramaturgy by Fabian Aimar.

Performances:

• Premiere: January 31 and February 1, 6, 7, 2020 in the Schwankhalle Bremen

This play was only performed once and only for four performances by the following production team:

Idea/ Concept/ Dramaturgy: Fabian Aimar | Project management/ Choreography: Günther Grollitsch | Dance: Neele Buchholz, Jenny Ecke, Magali Sander Fett, Adriana Könemann, Oskar Spatz, Adrian Wenzel, Sergey Zhukov | Production assistance: Tim Gerhards, Corinna Mindt | Costume: Silke Schumacher-Lange I Lighting/ Technology: Carlos Heydt | Production: steptext dance project in cooperation with tanzbar_bremen

Supported by Aktion Mensch. With the kind support of the Waldemar Koch Foundation and the Sparda Bank Hannover Foundation.