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
How do you do?!
Whenever we're sure of having finally gained a certain amount of controll over our lives, something is bound to go wrong. All our plans, careful preparations and ambitions are lapsed, when confronted with the Unexpected.
Jan Puschs first work for Nordwest Tanzcompagnie deals with one of the most fundamental conflicts of existence – the conflict between intention and reality!
Equipped with established views on life, approved convictions, willingness to improvise and to use any promising trick at hand, we try to convince ourselves of being solidly prepared for things to come. When our thus lovingly constructed visions of the future are messed up by events, we like to speak of fate or destiny.
„How do you do?!” shows in an ironic, witty and turbulent way the strategies we come up with in dealing with the unpredictable.
Choreography: Jan Pusch
Music: Beat Halberschmidt
Set Design: Geelke Gaycken
Costume Design: Ullinca Schröder
Assistance: Ilka von Häfen
Conceptual Cooperation: Bettina Schröder
Staatstheater Oldenburg, Nordwest Tanzcompagnie, 2007
Press
»…a turbulent, breathless dance piece.«
Driven by electronic sound and rhythm samples, the dancers race across the stage, push off the walls, return to the ground to slide over the mirror-floor like swimmers."
»No doupt a peculiar, but very promising introduction of Jan Pusch and his Ensemble…«
NWZ
»Terrific new beginning between antique walls«
»…dance theatre of highest quality…«
»…continuously surprising…«
Radio Bremen
»Torn between magnetic power and their own movements, the ensemble lives through the to and fro, back and forth, ups and downs of life itself.«
Kreiszeitung Syke