In 1991, Susanne Linke created her legendary piece "Ruhr-Ort"; in it she focused on the men´s work in the steel factories and mines. Physical exhaustion became dance and formed impressive images of the world of labor in the old Ruhr region.
The extraordinary choreography is returning on stage. Susanne Linke is reconstructing "Ruhr-Ort" together with the dancers of the Herner Street-Art Company Pottporus/Renegade. This will be a unique meeting between street art and dance theater, between the old and the new Ruhr region, between dance history and contemporary urban art.
reconstruction/premiere: January 24th 2014, Schauspielhaus Bochum
choreography and direction: Susanne Linke
performers: Ibrahim Biaye, Alexis Fernandez Ferrera, Said Gamal Sayed, Mohamed, Janis Heldmann, Paul Hess, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, Lin Verleger, Victor Zapata
costume assistant: Pauline Gahlen
stage designer: Frank Leimbach (original), Berit Schog (implementation)
artistic consultant stage: Robert Schad (original)
costume design: Angela Spreer (original), Agnes Langenbucher (implementation)
music: Ludger Brümmer
video: Momme Hinrichs, Torge Møller (fettFILM)
lighting: Wilfried Kresiment (original), Denny Klein
dramaturgy: Waltraut Körver, Sabine Reich
assistants to the production: Felix Bürkle, Adriana Kocijan
assistant stage design: Dennis Duszszak
assistant costume design: Pauline Gahlen
stage manager: Christina Baston
A production in cooperation with Pottporus e.V./Renegade, Herne
Funded by TANZFONDS ERBE - an initiative by the German Federal Culture Foundation with kind support of the Ministery for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North-Rhine Westfalia
length: 70 minutes
(premiere original performance: 1991, CHOREOGRAPHIES)