Anna Natt:
Dame Gothel
Dame Gothel
„My grandmother often read the fairy tale Rapunzel to me, she spoke with passion about the burning desire of a pregnant woman. On the other hand she would be very conscious about appearances. For instance, she would organize dinners in order to teach us table manners. She would show me how to manicure my nails. She often said: it hurts to be beautiful“. Through topics and symbols of fairy tales and myths, Dame Gothel...it hurts to be beautiful carries the audience into a magical world full of cords, hair and horses.
DIRECTION, PERFORMANCE Anna Natt MUSICAL DIRECTION, HARP Sissi Rada DRAMATURGY Mariona Naudin HARP Anna Steinkogler, Lucie Delhaye TECHNICAL DIRECTION, LIGHT DESIGN René Heinrich
Produced by Anna Natt in co-production with Freischwimmer. Funded by the Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung, Zitty
photo © Piotr Rybkowski
ANNA NATT received her training in traditional flamenco dance in Seville, Spain. Her stage performances, video works and interactive pieces have been shown internationally in theaters as well as galleries and alternative spaces. Beyond her dance training, she draws inspiration from various somatic and contemporary practices. In this way, she seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the body and its many facets. Another central theme in her work is the connection to trance and dream states.
ROBERT CURGENVEN produces albums performances and installations that emphasize physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture. Using such diverse means as pipe organ, turntables and dubplates, field recording through to feedback he has created works for National Gallery of Australia National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Transmediale (Berlin), National Sculpture Factory (Ireland) and festival performances including Sydney Festival, Maerzmusik (Berlin), Insomnia (Tromsø) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). Curgenven is an associate composer with the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland) and guest lecturer in music and sound throughout Australia and Europe.