Production

PERFORMANCE

Wonderwomen

“Wonderwomen” invites the two female professional bodybuilders Rosie Harte and Nathalie Schmidt to meet in a performance context. They contemplate their highly demanding sport that amplifies and transforms the body. While striving for an ultimate physical form, the women navigate their profoundly trained bodies and the potential for a new body language. “Wonderwomen” is a dialogue that brings together strength and vulnerablility, representation and transformation, athleticism and femininity.

”Wonderwomen‘ creates something extraordinary, even if the very ordinary phrase has to be used here now: the staging succeeds in breaking open habits of perception and underneath perceptions’…’in several respects this is a rare, strong performance.’ Steffen Georgi | Leipziger Volkszeitung, 28.11.2016

‘Wonderwomen‘ was the winner of the 2017 Leipziger Bewegungskunstpreis.

CAST & CREW

CONCEPT AND DIRECTION Melanie Lane
PERFORMANCE Rosie Harte and Nathalie Schmidt
LIGHT DESIGN Fabian Blesich
SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION Clark
PRODUCTION DESIGN Robert Bartholot
DRAMATURGY Frances d‘Ath
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTENCE Florian Bücking
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT M.i.C.A.

CO-PRODUCERS

A Production from Melanie Lane in Co-production with LOFFT – DAS THEATER and HAU – Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by the City of Leipzig, Kulturamt and the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN | Koproduktionsförderung Tanz aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages.)

PERFORMANCE HISTORY