Research-Trailer

Trailer

Interview Deutschland Radio Kultur

„This performance enlightens the shadows it casts ahead.“
Die Welt, 19.02.2013 (see below)

„Fukushima, my love“ artistically transports knowledge, a sense and a grasp of Fukushima und and the Japanese culure.
NowOut, 10.06.2013

“The radiation ultimately still remains unbelievable and devastatingly invisible in this two-hour show. But the archaeological approach to the glowing core of the disaster performed by the guests  from Hamburg provided a very considerable awareness about the fatal consequences. “
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 04.10.2013

1.5 years after the threefold disaster, one member of the COSTA COMPAGNIE traveled to Fukushima Prefecture and throughout Japan. He returned with a backpack full of interviews, sounds and video images. In FUKUSHIMA, MY LOVE the company pursues the question whether it is possible to reduce the spatial, temporal and cultural distance to the events of the disaster that also resulted in Germany’s departure from nuclear power. Based on 35 interviews and Japanese myths, three dancers, two actors, one musician and one video-artist artistically approached the incomprehensible in a performative essay, while asking: What is the human in the face of disaster?

TEAM

Artistic Director, Performance & Text
Felix Meyer-Christian

Choreography & Dance
Signe Koefoed, Frank Koenen / Robert Bell, Jascha Viehstädt, Maria Walser

Performance
Christina Flick, Dennis Pörtner / Hauke Heumann

Audio
Katharina Kellermann

Video
Jonas Plümke

Stage & Costume
Anika Marquardt, Lani Tran-Duc

Dramaturgy & Curator of the 72hrs-Archeology
Sven Christian Schuch

Assistants
Numan Jadallah, Anita Könning, Nicole Nowak

72std-Special Guest
Chikako Kaido (Choreographie & Tanz), Antonio Stella (Künstl. Mitarbeit)

Research in Japan
Felix Meyer-Christian

Translator in Fukushima-Prefecture
Zheng Mingxin

DATES / GUEST PERFORMANCES

Premiere
January 2013 at Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg, Residency Program

Tour
National Theater Weimar (E.Werk) (edt. version), Juni 2013
Theater of Bremen (Outnow-Festival), Juli 2013
Theater and Orchestra of Heidelberg (Opening Doppelpass-Residency), September 2013
Thalia Theater Hamburg (150%-Festival), April 2014

costa compagnie
The project has been funded and supported by:

The shows in Heidelberg were funded by Fonds Doppelpass by the German Federal Cultural Foundation

Additionally supportet by:

Company Werner Kürsten (Kartonagen), allbuyone (Eventbedarf), habitat (Inneneinrichtung), Sautter & Lackmann (Fachbuchhandlung), Kampnagel Hamburg and JustMusic Hamburg!