Songs of absence
anna konjetzky
spielart festival münchen
2023
DANCE CONCERT // “songs” and “absence”, the two main words in the title, are the content and program of this work. from a feminist perspective, “absence” looks for the things that are missing, that are not visible, that disappear in the gaps, that want to be said or not, and questions whether absences are ‘just’ a not-wanting/not being able to see. ”songs” refers to a formal examination, with the traditional form and album structure of songs, as well as with contemporary performance structures per se. It’s about the composition, the physical, tonal, spatial composition of an evening that works like a polyphonic parkour: polyphonic – multiphonic, an autonomy and independence of the voices. the result is a songbook, an album, an archive that tries to make the absent visible, to give it a name, to create a homage to the forgotten, the repressed.
team
choreography, artistic direction, stage anna konjetzky // co-creation, dance sahra huby, sotiria koutsopetrou, quindell orton, martha pasakopoulo, hannah schillinger, amie jammeh, jin lee // music sergej maingardt // light ramona lehnert // costume dimosthenis klimenof // video anne slote // production management elsa büsing // pr simone lutz // distribution godlive lawani – stane performing arts management
dates
2026