Kono Atari No Dokoka (Somewhere Around Here)

With German and English overtitels. 

Michikazu Matsune grew up  in Kobe, Martine Pisani in Marseille. What they have in common is the memory of cicadas singing and the smell of seawater - and, of course, dance. In Kono Atari No Dokoka, Michikazu Matsune, Martine Pisani, and Theo Kooijman look back over the French choreographer's forty-year career. Video recordings from 1984 show Martine Pisani performing a solo in Odile Duboc's dance studio. Michikazu Matsune recounts how he came to Europe to learn dance after seeing Decouflé's opening choreography for the Albertville Winter Olympics on television. Theo Kooijman remembers dancing the tango with Pina Bausch. Little by little, the audience is plunged into Pisani's humorous universe and into the essence of his work: an unstable dance, marked by the poetry of the unexpected and the simple presence of the body, a dance stripped of all effect. The traces are unstable, too: what remains of a performance and its own biography... Kono Atari No Dokoka is a tribute to a choreographer who has been a regular guest at fabrik Potsdam for over 25 years, and who has left her personal mark on the company - even naming a tree in the fabrikgarten: Françoise...

Afterwards on both days: talk with the artists

On Tue 28 + Wed 29 May: Workshow / Video works Compagnie du Solitaire/Martine Pisani