Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
Anne Chérel and Marina Idaczyk, Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
© Photo by: Photo by Laura Semprini
A photograph from a performance by Ensemble BewegGrund TrierTwo depicting two women in wheelchairs on the stage. One is facing the other and they are reaching out to touch their right hands. In the background there is a projection of a large spoked wheel.
Riana Schüssler and Anne Chérel, Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
© Photo by: Photo by Laura Semprini
A photograph from a performace by Ensemble BewegGrund Trier depicting two people on a dark stage. One is in a wheelchair with a red cloth draped over their head and body. The other is stood by the wheelchair leaning into the other performer. She is wearing a red dress.
Anne Chérel and Maja Hehlen, Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
© Photo by: Photo by Anne Schaaf
A photograph from a performance by Ensemble BewegGrund Trier depicting two women on a stage. One is in a wheelchair. The performers are positioned back to back.
Gudrun Paulsen and Gisa Harig, Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
© Photo by: Photo by Anne Schaaf
A photograph from a performance by Ensemble BewegGrund Trier depicting two performers on a stage. One is bent forwards and is supporting another who is lying on her back. They are both wearing red. There is a projection on the screen in the background.
Thomas Ammanns, Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
© Photo by: Photo by Anne Schaaf
A photograph from a performance by Ensemble BewegGrund Trier depicting a man in a tee-shirt and dark glasses on a dark stage. The man is on the left of the stage looking over to the right hand side.
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
A photograph from a performance by Ensemble BewegGrund Trier depicting a large group of male and female performers on a stage in a variety of poses. Some are standing, one is upside-down supported by another. One performer is in a wheel chair and is laughing expressively. Some are seated at a table in the background. Projected onto a screen at the back of the stage is a photograph of a person who making a sign with their hands.
Anne Chérel and Maja Hehlen, Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
© Photo by: Photo by Stefan Möllenbruck © Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
A photograph from a performance by Ensemble BewegGrund Trier depicting two performers on a stage, one is in a wheelchair and the other is standing on one leg behind the wheelchair, facing away from the camera, and leaning against the back of the performer in the wheelchair.
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier (founded in 2000, artistic director Maja Hehlen) is a DanceAbility Dance Company project open to everybody. Professional performances are created in the steady rehearsal process throughout the year.
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier consists currently of 20 to 30 dancers. People at all levels of experience cooperate equally with each other in dance, rehearsal and performance. All dancers mutually teach each other evenly.
It typically takes one year to develop a new dance performance. This provides a sustainable and regular offer in dance and performance for all people in Trier, Germany. The hometown dance pieces serve as the baseline to create travel versions, which involve fewer dancers from the ensemble and are performed at many different places.
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier is produced by DanceAbility e.V., Germany. The association is connected to DanceAbility International. DanceAbility (founded in 1987 by Alito Alessi) is a dance method to promote artistic expression for all people, to dissolve barriers and connect people with and without disabilities through dance and movement. DanceAbility evolves from contemporary dance and actually belongs to its cutting edge. DanceAbility serves as a foundation to create the art of being together.
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier advocates for the elimination of prejudices against people who are defined in our society in general as having a disability. The main focus is to work without isolating anybody. All people’s bodies can speak one language for one world.
Contact details
Charlotte Westhoff
lead of social media
Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
DanceAbility e.V.
im Schammat 19
54294 Trier
Germany
Instücken 16
Duration: 20 min
Description: „Instücken 16“ shows a composition of short cuts of several productions from „Ensemble BewegGrund Trier“ weaved into a piece revealing itself in the unique space of time.
Extra information: Artistic director: Maja Hehlen
Co-Teaching: Maja Hehlen, Anne Chérel, Marina Idaczyk, Gudrun Paulsen
Satellite Support Team: Anne Chérel, Ele Geulen, Marina Idaczyk, Hans- Peter Jungbluth, Yvonne Nowack, Gudrun Paulsen, Christina Zeretzke, Alice Andersson
Video: Steve Strasser
Costumedesign: Christina Zeretzke
Music arrangements: Udo Bohn
Dancers: Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
Production: DanceAbility e.V.
Site specific: screen behind the dance space (approx. width of 6 m and height of 3,5 meters). Videotechnic for video&sound. Wheelchair accessible stage, audience, bathrooms and hotel***, if accommodation is needed.
People on road: six to eight dancers one video/light administrator
Freight: baggage
sea ya shortly!*
Duration: 30 min
Description: When the seaside writes its stories, then we become the storytellers, while the waves are listening and remembering themselves. If the beach is the stage, then we reinvent ourselves, while laying, sitting, walking, rolling or running on it. Encounters occur on a sandy ground, whose steadiness is the change.
Extra information: Artistic director: Maja Hehlen
Co-Teaching: Maja Hehlen, Anne Chérel, Marina Idaczyk, Gudrun Paulsen
Satellite Support Team: Anne Chérel, Ele Geulen, Marina Idaczyk, Hans- Peter Jungbluth, Yvonne Nowack, Gudrun Paulsen, Christina Zeretzke, Alice Andersson
Video: Steve Strasser
Costumedesign: Christina Zeretzke
Music arrangements: Udo Bohn
Dancers: Ensemble BewegGrund Trier
Production: DanceAbility e.V.
Site specific: screen behind the dance space (approx. width of 6 m and height of 3,5 meters). Videotechnic for video&sound. Wheelchair accessible stage, audience, bathrooms and hotel***, if accommodation is needed.
People on road: 9 dancers one video/light artist
Freight: baggage
DanceAbility Workshops accessible for anyone
DanceAbility Teacher Orienation Trainings of 30 hours for professionals
“Surreal, wild and absolutely hilarious – the new performance. Again and again the audience is clapping hands or screaming with laughter.” (6. 7. 2015, Benedikt Laubert, Trierischer Volksfreund)
“The “Happy “clip has made them to internet stars. More than 1,5 million times the video was clicked, and so the dancers on stage have lots of self confidence. Those who dance with Ensemble BewegGrund Trier gain new friendships and new experiences, and those who watch their performances can see how relaxed people with and without disabilities are having fun together.“ (Juli 2014, Ansgar Zender, SWR Landesschau aktuell Rhineland-Palatinate)
“It is a nice utopia like the one sung by Joan Baez. All people are equal, treating one another with respect and are interested in realizing an idea together. With Ensemble BewegGrund Trier this is no utopia, but reality.“ (8. 7. 2015, Susanne Scherer, Kulturspiegel, saarländischer Rundfunk)
“Who once has seen a performance by the Ensemble knows: Good dance does not evolve by the selection of the seemingly best ones, as in some TV shows of the commercial television. Good dance evolves in a group, in which everybody brings in their strenghs.“ (10.12.2014, Benedict Lauber, Trierischer Volksfreund)
“One or another will have to admit to rarely have seen elegant pirouettes with a wheelchair, duets with a milking machine or a good party on a roundabout. Those who until now couldn’t imagine that one can as well dance the plastic bag scene of ‘American Beauty,’ will not only be put right but also simply experience a beautiful moment.“ (13. 9. 2013, Anne Schaaf, www.16vor.de)
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