Tickets
Run time: 90 minutes
Language: spoken in English, sung in German
Sat, 1.11.25
Following the performance Tanz in Bern feat. Die Oh Karaoke Show!
Accessibility
In her new solo, Claire Cunningham asks what it is to wander, to seek to scale great heights. Led by her lived-experience as a disabled person, her memory of training as a classical singer and knowledge drawn from the world of mountaineering, and Gustav Mahler’s «Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen», Claire Cunningham sets out to make a show where she traverses known and unfamiliar landscapes. What can be learned from those of us who reach for the ground through crutches as 4-legged creatures? Cunningham also asks what it means to keep going and, importantly, to have the wisdom to know when to turn back.
| «I really love turning into this sort of four-legged creature. All the little places that you can wedge the crutch really right into a corner or into a crack.» What inspires the Scottish performer and choreographer also moves the audience in many different ways. |
The texts for this year’s Tanz in Bern draw from two sources: firstly, what the artists themselves write about their productions, and secondly, how these productions relate to the festival theme pleasurable.
Credits
Concept & Choreography: Claire Cunningham with Dan Watson & Luke Pell
Performance: Claire Cunningham
Associate Director & Dramaturgy: Dan Watson
Dramaturg: Luke Pell
Set and Costume Design: Bethany Wells
Lighting Design: Chris Copland
Sound Design: Matthias Herrmann
Video Design: Michelle Ettlin
Artistic Collaborator: Julia Watts Belser
Captioner: Maria Wünsche (Panthea)
Executive Producer: Nadja Dias
Projects & Access Producer: Vicky Wilson
Production Manager: Emma Jones and Sulie Wood
Sound and Video programmer: Keir Martin
Company Stage Manager: Carly Hook
Artistic Access Consultancy: Nelly Kelly, Panthea, Angela Alves, Rita Mazza and Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge
Mountaineering Consultants: Cormac Lynch and Simone Kenyon
Administrative Support (for HZT): Susanne Adam & Jeanette Gogoll
Audio Description Script Audio Description Script written by Claire Cunningham with Julia Watts Belser, Luke Pell and Dan Watson with advisory and research support from Leo Naomi Baur, and Fia Neises
Audio Description Translation (German) Maria Wünsche.
Spoken by Claire Cunningham.
