LOT

LOT is a dance performance on construction and decay. Two performers interplay with their environment - a dystopian space, encompassed by a circular audience reminiscent of an arena. Across long breadths of silence broken by cracking lava stone and nostalgic E-guitar melodies, the two dancers inhabit repetitive swinging movements in trance-like synchronism with a moving pendulum, manifested/envisioned as a wrecking ball.

Riess Neustadt magnify minute details and gradual evolutions through somatic movement in a morphing physical interdependence. LOT plays with cyclical fantasies of transformation and destruction in relation to the political contemporary. Meaning is lost in bleached and subverted symbols of a capitalist anthropocene. The timeless environment contemplates emptiness; a search for closeness and intimacy, or action and autonomy. Movement becomes the measure of temporality. Out of this void emerges an impulse for acceleration, a fantasy to reappropriate the constancy of our systems.

Riess Neustadt collective works with material installations in interaction with live performance, through movement and through sound and silence. Dealing with the extremes of restriction and freedom and, through somatic research, their effects on the body. Their dance practice draws on state work, somatic movement qualities, and durational experimentations. Within these forms, the topics of their work center around cultural, subcultural, and political contexts through queer perspectives.

Concept, Choreography, Performance: Fabian Riess & Tasha Hess-Neustadt

Stage & Costume Design: Lucy/Louis Caspar Schmitt

Light Design: Rainer Ludwig

Mentorship & Dramaturgical Support: Stephan Herwig

PR: Claudia Illi

Graphic Design: Short Notice Studio

Additional Outside Eye: Katharina Simons

Funded by the Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München

With support from Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V. and Tanztendenz München e.V.

Reaser Trailer: Lucy/Louis Caspar Schmitt

Photos: Sascha Paar