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
Who knows. Maybe Tennessee.
Following the two central figures of Tennessee Williams' play "A streetcar named desire", Jan Pusch shows the encounter of two contrasting personalities in a restricted space.Starting off as the initial play between erotic nearness and evasive distance, dream and reality, being there and wanting to go away, a power struggle for territories and the accomplishment of one's own longings emerges.
Dance: Juliane Rößler (D), Chris Haring (A)
Choreography/Direction,
Text and Textadaption, Set, Light: Jan Pusch
Costume: Ullinca Schröder
Music: Buena Vista Social Club, Jan Pusch, Neil Young, Tricky, Portishead, Partisan
[arranged and mixed by Jan Pusch]
Assistent: Sasa Queliz
Production: Juliane Rößler
Foto: Laurent Ziegler, Vienna
Duration: 60 minutes without interval
Produced by TANZ WERKSTATT LÜBECK e.V. 1999
Funded by: Theater Lübeck, Musikhochschule Lübeck, Bereich Kultur der Hansestadt Lübeck
Kultusministerium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein and Possehl-Stiftung
"That passion creates suffering is a tried and tested theatre topic, especially when there is just one woman and one man on stage. But how the choreographer Jan Pusch turns this into an erotic, danced evergreen with verve, wit and delusion is as rare as it is entertaining.
"Who knows. Maybe Tennessee." is dance theater of today, refreshingly exceptional, profound and simple at the same time ."
Lübecker Nachrichten
"Not without comical elements, wrong illusions and honest physics, the stereotypes of the female chatterbox and
the randy muscleman collide into each other. The way the choreographer thrillingly layers the piece on the motion, narrative and [concrete] play level and, in the empty black box, emphasizes with dramatic direction of light and collaged music, he creates characteristic visual impact and eroticism."
ballet international/tanz aktuell
"He [Pusch] often holds his figures at a distance to each other, but when they meet it is crackling and seething.
This work is sparkling with a pack of brilliant ideas."
die tageszeitung
"Intelligently, Pusch interweaves textual and physical level to reflect on inner and outer realities, oscillating between reality and imagination. Until now the choreographer's most convincing piece."
Die Welt