For this cross-continental production directed by Stephanie Thiersch, I designed a distributed stage utilizing holographic projections to map remote dancers from Senegal and Germany into a shared physical space. The video architecture collapsed geographical distance, allowing the international ensemble to interact in real time within a unified environment.

With LAND IM LAND, the last premiere of the project series D³ - Dance Discovers Digital, choreographer Stephanie Thiersch creates a performance that raises the bond between people and across continents as a theme. In a colourful celebration, three communities gather on the stage of TOR6 between Toubab Dialaw and Bielefeld: the ensemble of TANZ Bielefeld, four dancers from Thiersch’s Cologne company MOUVOIR and seven artists from Africa. The theatre laboratory TOR6 is transformed into a utopian living space in which an analogue and a virtual world unfold simultaneously. Territories merge and people who are nevertheless located far away in the world meet close to each other.

Through holographic projections, the presence of all the artists in the venue is felt in different ways and the concept of hospitality takes on a whole new meaning. Who invites to this party and who is invited? Or is one both guest and host? At the interface of dance and digital media art, Land im Land is an invitation to dive into speculative futures and scenarios of togetherness.

In cooperation with École des Sables, International Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dances, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal and MOUVOIR e.V.

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, graduate funding DIS-TANZ-START of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

• Choreography & Staging: Stephanie Thiersch

• Artistic Advice in Senegal: Alesandra Seutin

• Costume Design: Lauren Steel

• Stage Design Collaboration: Anna Sörensen

• Video- & Digital Director: Navid Razavi

• Light Design: Begoña Garcia Navas

• Director Of Photography: Björn Weber

• Dramaturgy: Alban Pinet

• Choreographic Collaboration: Sarah Deltenre, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (MOUVOIR) & Joel Suárez Gómez (MOUVOIR)

with:

• DJ Elephant Power

• Tommaso Balbo

• Neus Barcons Roca (MOUVOIR)

• Carla Bonsoms i Barra

• Tarang Cissokho (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Falilou Faye (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Cola Lok Yee Ho

• Kezia Jonah (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Kelvin Kilonzo (MOUVOIR)

• Hampus Larsson

• Amy Lombardi

• Chris Lopez (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Andrea Martín

• Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart (MOUVOIR)

• Laura Martín Rey

• Fatou Niang (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Noriko Nishidate

• Alexandre Nodari

• N’deye Seck (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Joel Suárez Gómez (MOUVOIR)

• Ana Torre

• Adrien Ursulet

• Luca Völkel

• Christ Zié (École des Sables, Toubab Dialaw)

• Andrea Zinnato