Wen Hui / Living Dance Studio
New Report on Giving Birth
Wen Hui, the pioneer of contemporary dance in China, created the piece “Report on Giving Birth” in 1999, which was based on interviews with factory workers, doctors, journalists, midwives and her own mother about their experiences of pregnancy and birth. 25 years after the premiere, in “New Report on Giving Birth” we experience four dancers who venture new perspectives on female bodies. They encounter each other as mothers, non-mothers and women with migration histories from China, Thailand, Iran, Italy and Germany. In powerful, playful, poetic and intimate choreographies, they translate the associated realities and attributions. Together with the dancers, Wen Hui explores how structural violence and control become entrenched in bodies.
Duration: ca. 1 h 20 min
Language: English
Concept & Choreography: Wen Hui / Living Dance Studio
Dance and Performance: Alessandra Corti, Patscharaporn Distakul, Parvin Saljoughi, Wen Hui
Dramaturgy: Alexandra Hennig
Music: Matthias Engelke
Video: Rémi Crépeau
Light Design: Matthias Rieker
Sound: Willi Bopp
Dramaturgical Consultation and Research Consultation: Zhang Zhen
Production: Katja Armknecht
Operatives Production Management: Nadine Branca
Outside Eye and Consultation: Julia Alsdorf
Distribution: Damien Valette
A production by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm as part of the Rhine-Main Dance Platform, in co-production with HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, PACT Zollverein, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Festival d’Automne Paris and HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Supported as part of the alliance of international production houses, by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK
Co-production funding for dance by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by f.f.m – Freunde und Förderer des Mousonturm.