Simone Dede Ayivi:
Performing Back
Performing Back
A future memory performance about the German-Togolese colonial history
Memory is no serene oasis but still worth the journey. Simone Dede Ayivi ventures out on a journey through colonial history. Berlin-Lomé-Hannover - and directly into the bosom of her own colonialist family. Caring the heavy baggage of her heritage, she visits the past in the cities of today. She writes and sends herself postcards from home to her homeland and vice-versa in order to face oblivion head on. Her special carry on: a multimedia travelogue from a black person’s perspective.
CONCEPT, PERFORMANCE Simone Dede Ayivi SOUND, MUSIC Katharina Kellermann VIDEO Juliane Kremberg DRAMATURGY Philipp Khabo Koepsell ASSISTANCE Mirjam Pleines MANAGEMENT ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
A production by Simone Dede Ayivi and Team in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Mitteln des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Land Niedersachsen, niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
photo © Juliane Kremberg
Simone Dede Ayivi developed performances with her accomplices in cooperation with the Sophiensæle, the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and the Festival Theaterformen. Among others, she directed at the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Theater Oberhausen. In 2022 she received the Tabori Award of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. Ayivi's performances discuss issues of representation, resistance, and community. Her works are curious, primarily interview-based research projects that bring search movements to the stage in a technically playful way, with an open use of theatrical means.
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