Basel Documentary Platform 15
Theatre | Performance
Dance | Film | Exhibition
15th – 19th April 2015
Conceived by Boris Nikitin

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Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen:
Not Punk, Pololo

With fifteen dancers, musicians, and actors, accompanied by a live orchestra, Gintersdorfer and Klaßen showcase their largest performance to date: a unique dance show that takes as its starting point the life of legendary thief and murderer-for-hire John Pololo from the Ivory Coast, who in the 1980s and 1990s became a subversive artistic figure, inventing sayings and dance styles still to be found on the streets of the Ivory Coast today. In the show, the Pololo movement comes into contact with German punk and queer urban club culture – the street dance of Abidjan mixes with internet dance crazes such as twerking, crumping, and voguing, with strong stances and a self-aware DIY attitude the standard and anti-authenticity the artistic principle. With Not Punk, Pololo, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen – two of the guiding lights of the international dance scene – present a game of signs and attitudes that encourages the clash of competing dance styles and ways of thinking.

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Sat, April 18th, 8:30pm
Artist Talk after the show

Kaserne Basel, Reithalle

In German, English and French 

Duration: 90 min

Prices: 35 /20/ 15 CHF

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Germany

With: Alex Cephus, Cecilia Bengolea, Ismaero Takeo Ishii, Gotta Depri, Franck Edmond Yao, Nadia Beugré, Hauke Heumann, Jule Flierl , Jezzeline Preach, Magali Sander-Fett, Marc Aschenbrenner, Eric Parfait Francis Taregue, Anta-Helena Recke, Hans Unstern, Ted Gaier, Thomas Wenzel
Artistic Directors: Monika Gintersdorfer, Knut Klaßen
Technical Director: Knut Klaßen

A production of Gintersdorfer/Klaßen and the Theater Bremen.
Supported by Fonds Doppelpass der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Supported by the Nationale Performance Netz (NPN) Gastspielförderung Tanz International aus Mitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des  Deutschen Bundestags.