CHOREOGRAPH – Kai Strathmann

GeZeiten

Dancer: Valentina Restrepo Giraldo, Jihee Kim, Nene Okada, Kyoko Oku, Julius Olbertz, Emmi Osenberg, Francesca Pavesio, Frederico Mendes Teixeira
Choreography: Chun Zhang, Kai Strathmann
Video: Kai Strathmann
Music: Kai Strathmann
Premiere: 2023, Krefeld 60. minutes
Inside: "Gezeiten (Tide)" is a choreography about the subtle and sometimes imperceptible movement of human weight shifting. The performance captures the precious moments between preparation and implementation, orientation in space and change of position. In this way,the production also focuses on the present as a link between the past an the future. Walking is the main movement in this piece. It involves the audience, who can enter the performance at their own pace, walk through it, enjoy or leave this human 'tide'. The dancers alter their walk through time by listening to their own body and heartbeat. They share this fluid process with the audience and invite them to become the heartbeat of the city and write their own future as a movement.
The format "MOVE! in town" is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the "Medium Center Funding for Dance and Performance" for the cultural center Fabrik Heeder.

Synästhesie

„autobiographisch, sehnsüchtig, mysteriös“
Dancer: Kai Strathmann
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Kai Strathmann
Video: Kai Strathmann
Premiere: 2022, Krefeld, 53. minutes
Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Silke Kliscope, Linz / Österreich (Residenz-Programm),
Kulturbüro der Stadt Krefeld

WHIRLING LADDER BETWEEN

Whirling Ladder | Between

Dancer: Kai Strathmann, Chun Zhang
Choreography: Kai Strathmann, Chun Zhang
Music: Kai Strathmann
Director: Maurits Boettger
Costume: Chun Zhang
Licht: Dirk Mattrn
Supported byDas Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturbüro Stadt Krefeld.
Official selection of: FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, USA; Cinedanza Festival, IT;
Multiplie Dance Film, NOR; Thessaloniki Cinedance, GRC; Constructed
Sight Dance Film, USA; Moving Body Festival, BGR; Flatlands Dance Film Festival, USA
Premiere: 2021, Düsseldorf, 60. minutes
Inside: „It is being different, becoming different. A process
whose supposed simplicity reveals nothing about the final result.“
Tanzweb 2021

5 : 1

Dancer: Ludovica Pinna, Francesca Pavesio, Tian Gao
Choreography: Chun Zhang, Kai Strathmann
Costume: Anne Bentgens, Chun Zhang
Music: Nils Frahm
Video: Kai Strathmann
Premiere: 2020, Düsseldorf
Inside: Oben: Gen, das Stillehalten, der Berg
Unten: Li, das Haftende, das Feuer
Das Zeichen zeigt ein Feuer, das aus den geheimen Tiefen der Erde hervorbricht und emporflackernd den Berg, die himmlische Höhe, erleuchtet und verschönt.
Aber es könnte die Essenz des Bergs nicht überschreiten. Somit stellt sich die Frage, hat der
Ehrgeiz des Egos das wahre Ich überschritten, wenn wir auf der Bühne stehen.

Tanzmesse Trailer

Dancer: Ludovica Pinna, Francesca Pavesio, Tian Gao
Choreography: Kai Strathmann, Chun Zhang
Music: Nils Frahm
Video: Kai Strathmann
Premiere: 2020, Düsseldorf

Prelude 0:1 AI

Dancer: Kai Strathmann
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Kai Strathmann
Premiere: 2019, Düsseldorf
Inside: AI wakes up at night, goes to bed in the morning.
Be careful not to be seen by anyone! AI collects light that has been wasted.
AI send it to other beings who need it. One day he found some light in his own body…

Regnet es?

Dancer: FTS Folkwang Tanzstudio; Uwe Brauns, Ying-Yun Chen, Maria Giovanne delle Donne, Nejma Larichi, Jan Möllmer, Eva Pageix, Simon Wolant, Chih-I Wu, Chih-Ming Yu
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Terry Riley / Les Yeux Fermes
Premiere: 2018, Essen
Inside: Die Komplexität einer alltäglichen Bewegung sollte ausreichen, um mit Hilfe
von Zeitlupe den Blick auf Details zu ermöglichen, welche uns eine Grundlage für
die Interaktion diverser Impulse bietet. Dem Sekundenzeiger auf die Füße treten – denn was ist schon Zeit?
Video: Mehtafilm

Rasa Sayang

Dancer: Christina Schulz, Kris Dao Nicholls, Igor Sousa, Lucas Lopes, Minju Kim, Leonie Türke,Ertjan Bala, Lara Pilloni, Jan Kollenbach, Kah Chun Pau, Gustavo Leiter, Kati Menze, Pin-Chen Hsu, Chih-yin Li, Sevak Avagyan, Birte Lüderitz, Sarah Hesam-Zadeh, Jolinus Marten, Gabrielle Duval, Sara Valenti
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Assistent: Chun Zhang
Music: Kai Strathmann
Premiere: 2017, Essen
Inside:22 people from 11 different countries and 4 different continents
in one piece. with the 2nd year Bachelor Students „Zeitgenössicher Tanz“
from the Folkwang Universtity of Arts for the Exerzitium 2017 @Pina Bausch Theater Essen

Soléy Léve

Dancer: Giulia Nicoletti, Jordan Gigout
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Dead can dance
Premiere: 2016, Essen

The Drop

Dancer: Kai Strathmann
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Hang in Balance
Premiere: 2015, Essen
Inside: Master Audition Solo

Schwerzeit

Dancer: Chun Zhang
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Kai Strathmann / Handpan D-Minor
Premiere: 2017, Essen
Inside: gewichtete zeit – besondere zeit – schwerzeit

es könnte 2.0

Dance/Choreography: Kai Strathmann, Chun Zhang
Music: Nils Frahm
Premiere: 2016, Cologne
Inside: zwei Karten, drei Stunde,vier Schritte
fünf Schritte, unsicher, wenn du zu mir kommst

Reibung, Intuition, Lieblichkeit und Dummheit entstehen unvorhersehbar
durch zwei Bewegungsphrasen, basierend auf einer eigens entwickelten Notation eines
zwanzigminütigen Musikstückes, welches zwei Individualisten anzieht, die sich mit Freude
einem unvorhersehbaren Tango hingeben, obwohl nichts sicher ist!

es könnte

Dance/Choreography: Kai Strathmann, Chun Zhang
Music: Rene Aubry
Premiere: 2015, Essen
Inside: es könnte ganz anders gelaufen sein (it could have gone in a total different way)
es könnte etwas völlig anderes sein (it could have been something totally else)
es könnte immer besser sein (it could always be better) es könnte einfach sein (it could simply be)

Forward backward, never the same; sooner later, never
better.”es könnte“ focuses on the interesting moment, when two “solos”,
find their simple but unique way, to become a “duo”.

100g

Dancer: Valeria Alvarado Mejia, Estefania Alvarez, Patric Neves Lindström, Narumi Saso
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: David Darling / Antonio Sanchez
Premiere: 2017, Essen
Inside: Four dancers, three sacks, one chair How do we find something common,
something personal,something harmonious with this source material? Not an idea
as a starting point, but the starting material as the basis for creation.

Kabecao

Dancer: Murat Alkan,Simon Wolant, Ying Yun Chen,Johann Geidies, Charlotte Virgile
Choreography: Kai Strathmann
Music: Kabeçåo Rodrigues
Premiere: 2015, Essen
Inside: using the Improvised Handpan Music played by Kabecao Rodrigues
to create a visual outcome for what i hear. its a sound, its a feeling, its a motion.
one try to make the musik moving.