›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹ - Eröffnung und performativer Rundgang über die Halde

Traces: Ecologies of togetherness

To kick off the 'Shifting Grounds - IN COMMON' summer festival , a performative tour of the slag heap will take place. The works approach the landscape from different perspectives: through dance, voice, sound and choreographic settings that directly connect body and environment.

Anna Ehlert, consultant for sustainability and environmental management at the Zollverein Foundation, opens up the view of the slagheap as a living landscape. Over drinks, she will introduce you to the industrial nature of the site - to barren soils, wild vegetation, surprising habitats and the special interplay between mining history and biodiversity.

In 'La notte è il mio giorno preferito' , Annamaria Ajmone approaches the figure of the 'other'. From the atmosphere of a nocturnal forest, a choreography unfolds that explores speculative relationships between bodies, animals, plants and materials.

In the solo 'untitled', caner teker examines how resistance, vulnerability and perseverance are physically articulated. On the slag heap, the body becomes a political terrain.

Alma Söderberg presents a version of 'Infinétude' adapted for three performers as a sensual, rhythmic journey across the slag heap. Inspired by the intensity of flamenco, a multi-layered composition is created between concert and dance performance, in which movement, voice and thought are mutually dependent and emotions become physical.

The tour ends with a sound performance by Jan St. Werner and Madison Greenstone in a hallucinogenic, dream-like soundscape that takes up the acoustic properties of Ulrich Rückriem's stone sculpture 'Castell' and turns the site itself into a resonating space.

PROGRAMME

6 pm // PACT Terrace
Opening & welcome with Stefan Hilterhaus & Danja Burchard (PACT)

6.10 pm // PACT Terrace
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Aletta Bonn - 'Biodiversity as a common practice. On industrial nature, participation and shared habitats'

18.30 // Slag heap
Performative tour of the slag heap with:

• Anna Ehlert - Lecture on biodiversity on the Zollverein slagheap
  Talk

• Annamaria Ajmone - 'La notte è il mio giorno preferito'
  Performance / Dance

• caner teker - 'untitled'
  Performance / Dance

• Alma Söderberg - 'Infinétude'
  performance / dance

• Jan St. Werner & Madison Greenstone
  performance / dance

9 pm // PACT Terrace
DJ set on the terrace with Deena Abdelwahed