Friendly Fire
La Fête
Final Fiction
How do you do?!
real deal
match
Into the Blue
Wish I was Real
Who knows. Maybe Tennessee
Wish I’d be here
Please help yourself
Until the cows come home
Games
Scope
Until the cows come home
Waiting - trivial activity, wasted and squandered time, but on the other hand: expectation, tension, suspense.
Waiting for the bus, waiting for everything to get better - at second glance the boring and trivial action of waiting reveals numerous exciting and contradictory aspects ranging from the commonplace to life principle, from being passive state to active attempt of orientation, a means for structuring time, providing reason.The piece shows attempts to get a hold of some future by means of waiting.
Four dancers, one actor, one singer and two musicians perform strange and absurd, funny and weird activities, rituals, situations and techniques of waiting.Powerful and dynamic rhythm-dance sequences, in which the dancers exhaust themselves as techno beating body-percussionists against walls and floor, are interrupted by seemingly static situations at the verge of silence. Minimal movements and sounds, one's own heartbeat, breathing, suppressed coughing confront performers and audience alike in their concentration and focus on something indefinite and vague. Blending sounds and noises, minimal shifts and movements, interact and relate to each other and from the 'action' of waiting of dancers, musicians and actors a peculiar, dense and rhythmical structure evolves. Connecting and interrelating the situations on stage, the different layers of communication - movement, speech and music - overlap.
Dancers:
Fiona Gordon (GB)
Wobine Bosch (NL)
Franck Baranek (F)
Lorenz Orth (D)
Actor: Ulrich Cyran (D)
Singer: Ellen Borck (D)
Musicians:
Georgia Hoppe (D),
Hans-Jörn Brandenburg (D)
Choreography/Direction: Jan Pusch
Music and Words: Jan Pusch and Ensemble
Stage Set: Christian Wiehle and Jan Pusch
Costumes: Ullinca Schröder
Light: Carsten Sander
Sound: Hans-Peter Kurz
Photography: Silke Goes
Duration: 80 minutes without interval
Co-produced by Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik, 1997
Funded by Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
"With "Until the Cows Come Home" Jan Pusch succeeded in creating an evening, that is tightly directed, aesthetically convincing and conceptually well thought out; that can be recommended without reserve."
Hamburger Rundschau
"[...] the new dance theatre by Jan Pusch lives on the contrast and the well accomplished togetherness of dance, music and theatre."
Hamburger Morgenpost
"Jan Pusch's improvisation - based research on time and human beguiling rituals sparks off banal errors and helpless sort-out systems again and again."
die tageszeitung
"A clever power mix [...] out of aggressive physical action and minimally shifting, almost static moments in which all participants are equally involved. Talents like Pusch are rare."
Hamburger Abendblatt
"Pusch approaches the subject together with his performers not only narrative but also formally. By connecting all performing arts: movement, singing, music and speech, [...] he makes waiting perceptible by the senses for the audience watching in expectation. According to George Tabori: Waiting, with its, without exception, purposeful tension is pure theatre."
ballet international/tanz aktuell