ROUGH PROPOSALS 2024

WED, 03.07.

17:00 / PB 3

and counting

Antje Cordes

18:00 / PB 3

and counting

Antje Cordes

20:00 / PB 2

Giacometti’s figure

Vicente Antunes Ramos

Call-to-Action hizufügen

THU, 04.07.

16:30 / Strahlenzentrum

Dates of Expiry (ENG)

Carlos Franke

18:30 / PB3

_Static_!

Balint Barabas Szigeti / Katerina Kalantranaki

20:00 / Georg-Büchner-Saal

How clouds, hair and ropes are related?

Isidora Gazmuri Donoso

FRI, 05.07.

14:30 / Strahlenzentrum

Verfallsdaten (GER)

Carlos Franke

16:30 / PB 2

Giacometti’s figure

Vicente Antunes Ramos

19:30 / Georg-Büchner-Saal

Tonight

Anna Lea Ourø

21:00 / PB 3

Follow Back

Rom Sheratzky

SAT, 06.07.

12:00 / PB 3

Follow Back

Rom Sheratzky

14:00 / Georg-Büchner-Saal

Tonight

Anna Lea Ourø

17:00 / Georg-Büchner-Saal

A Very Cheesy Song for You

Pao-Chang Tsai

19:00 / PB3

My Horse is a Cloud

Malin Harff

20:30 / Georg-Büchner-Saal

can we take a moment to appreciate the sunset

Nele Tiidelepp

Rough Proposals 2024 is an experimental platform for the presentation of artistic works by students of the international Master's programme in Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research of Goethe University in Frankfurt. In numerous choreographies, performances, installations, works in progress etc., eleven students give the audience an insight into their artistic work, explorations, and research processes.

Rough Proposals 2024 has been developed within the course, and with the guidance of Dr. Martina Ruhsam and with the support of Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst.

This year’s edition will be presented in the framework of Hessische Theatertage 2024.

With the financial support of the Hessian Theatre Academy.

and in this arena, there might be nothing

but we keep going on

one two three four

clack-clack

“and counting” is a first attempt to stage this work in process. Exploring the poetic and performative possibilities of soft plastics and bodies of air; trying to navigate and redefine contact points, purpose, meaning and intentions, to make non-sense within a world out of proportions.

Performed by: Antje Cordes, Annu Kötter

Lights: Lucas Guigonis

Tech support: Malin Harff

Helping hands & minds: Sylvia Cordes (tailoring saviour), Anne-Kathrin Hartmann (make-up advisor)

Special thanks: Martina Ruhsam, Eszter Sonnevend, the RP class

03.07.24, 17:00 & 18:00, PB3

English, 30 min

In Giacometti's Figure I revisit the story of my mother's depression and her repeated suicide attempts throughout my childhood. Based on a long interview I conducted with her, I look for ways to choreograph this story, to narrate it from the pieces of memory I have, from the traces I have in my hands.

Concept and performance: Vicente Antunes Ramos

With: Sandra Antunes Ramos

Artistic collaboration: Giovanna Monteiro and Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders

Assistant director: Giovanna Monteiro

Text: Guido Wertheimer and Vicente Antunes Ramos

Video: Ana Iramain

Sound artist: Tomás Ripoll

Light support: Nele Tiidelepp

Special thanks: Miguel Antunes Ramos, Donya Speaks, Laura Salerno, Bojana Kunst, Martina Ruhsam and to all the RP 2024.

03.07.24, 20:00, PB2

05.07.24, 16:30, PB2

Portuguese with English subtitles, 90 min

What do a monkey mask, a musical saw and skating have in common? What's the connection between Audre Lorde and John Cage? And how do you organise your books? Not by size, do you? The stage performance "Dates of Expiry" is a contemplation of mortality, and a very personal attempt of organising not just books, but life itself.

(Aside: A Theatermaschine piece at Rough Proposals! Isn't that illegal?!)

04.07.24, 16:30, Strahlenzentrum (English version)

05.07.24, 14:30, Strahlenzentrum (German version)

English and German, 45 min

A Work IN progress

static [ˈstatɪk]:

Adjective:

-lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in an undesirable or uninteresting way

-forces in equilibrium.

-acting as weight but not moving.

Noun:

-an electrical charge that collects on the surface of objects made from some types of material when they are rubbed.

-a constantly changing pattern on analogue tv screens

-electric noise

_Static_! Is an investigation through the performance space how stillness, equilibrium and constant change relates to each other.

Concept: Balint Barabas Szigeti

Creators: Adi Einecke, Isabelle Gebert, Anna Gies, Katherina Kalantranaki, Damian Obara, Eszter Sonnevend

04.07.24, 18:30, PB3

English, 60 min

Note: There will be darkness and flickering lights.

This works explores the question How Clouds, Hair, and Ropes are related?, using materialities and the body as means and through a theatrical language.

Creation and performer: Isidora Gazmuri

Musical Composition: Tomás Ripoll

Lights design: Levi Schafhauser

Choreography assistance: Santiago Mariño

Special thanks: Martina Ruhsam, Annu Kötter, Xavier Le Roy, Nargess Behrouzian and

all RP 24'

04.07.24, 20:00, Georg-Büchner-Saal

English, 60 min

Tonight is about distances. It is about material getting amplified in more bodies, taking up more space. It is about the line of tension between form and sensation. The material is split apart and never fully returned, or it is returned in a new order.

Tonight, I am not sure anymore what belongs to me and what is shared. 

By Anna Lea Ourø

With: Santiago Mariño and Anna Lea Ourø

Tech: Carlos Franke 

05.07.24, 19:30, Georg-Büchner-Saal

06.07.24, 14:00, Georg-Büchner-Saal

English, 40 min

A big thank you to: Martina Ruhsam, Bojana Kunst, Oded Komemi, Yael Selinger,

Antje Cordes

05.07.24, 21:00, PB3

06.07.24, 12:00, PB3

English and German, 35 min

It's a working-in-progress research for the definition of cheesiness, how cheesiness affects human body, health, and mind. How do we understand cheesy music and other art forms. Why we are avoiding cheesiness. What exactly are we afraid of cheesiness and how, as human being, can we conquer cheesiness.

Or, I just miss him too much.

Concept: Pao-Chang Tsai

Performers: Pao-Chang Tsai & Tomás Ripoll

Dramaturgs: Balint Barabas Szigeti & Katerina Kalantranaki

Special Thanks to: Johannes Engelmann, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, Cupies 24/25, and 三媽、佛祖、保哥、文昌帝君、關聖帝君、白沙屯媽祖

06.07.24, 17:00, Georg-Büchner-Saal

English, 40 min

It’s very cheesy.

Horses are perceived as wild and soft.

In what rhythm does your heart beat?

When the horse fell out of time,

clouds were the only horizon.

Clouds in broken shapes.

Isn´t that breathtaking?

This work is created with the perspective of Long Covid, walking the line of breathing in the everyday while the world is stumbling and breathing is not a given fact anymore.

By Malin Harff

With Isidora Gazmuri and Annu Kötter

Sound: Tomás Ripoll

Drums: Nargess Behrouzian

Light: Dana Maxim

Camera: Tetta, Malin Harff

Dramaturgical Advice: Bojana Kunst, Martina Ruhsam, Santiago Mariño

Special thanks to all the tech support by Tamira, Johanna, Marie, Jannis and Simon, to CUPies 23/24 and the dance department of Stadttheater Gießen.

06.07.24, 19:00, PB3

English, ca. 60 min

Note: There will be a lot of fog.

The way you look at me reminds me of a time when I moved things and myself from across the room closer to you. These are the times we had. The times we will have had when we hang out when it's all over; and my soft side is turned towards you as we stand on the other side of things and look towards us as if we were here together. And are we thinking the same thing to the extent that we finish off each other's thoughts? Things left out get into my head and I stay underneath to see only the bottom of it. I need to, at least, try to move my fingers in such a way that we both get to page 6 in the book. But on another page, this is just the beginning.

Author: Nele Tiidelepp

Performance: Nele Tiidelepp, Anna Lea Ourø, Vicente Antunes Ramos

Sound design: Tomás Ripoll

Choreography and dramaturgy: created in collaboration with Anna Lea Ourø and Vicente Antunes Ramos

Thanks: Tom Brennecke, Liisbeth Horn, Martina Ruhsam

06.07.24, 20:30, Georg-Büchner-Saal

English, 70 min