Habitat / Marseille

Premiere 2022, Red Plexus, Marseille

In a poetic and subversive way Habitat stages naked bodies inhabiting the space and creating individual and collective rituals - an ode to the body, dance and nudity.

After two years of social distancing and stand-offs, bodies must revive and reconnect to inhabit the world together.
To seal this reunion, RedPlexus invites the extraordinary artistic creation Habitat by the Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich: 75 performers* from Marseille, aged from 19 to 70, have participated in a master class for five intense days and put themselves on stage with naked bodies to inhabit the space and create individual and collective rituals, accompanied by the sound of DJ Kopeinig.

Habitat is presented as part of Perform Europe in collaboration with MAYKTheatre (Bristol, UK), Rosendal International Theatre (Nordheim, Norway) and Something Great (Berlin, Germany).

Credits

Concept, Choreography Doris Uhlich

Performance Maira Aggio de Oliveira, Esra Alaca, Eleonore Aublayd, Nour Audis, Magali Baron, Charlotte Bastin, Andrey Birnfield, Olfa Bouargoub, Karl Toni Breuker, Pascal Brousse, Clément Charnier, Heng Chen, Pia Chili, Li Li Chin, Lucie Delemotte, Amelie Dieudonné, Pierre Fabre, Willa Faulkner, Celine Gagnaire, Joelle Gallais, Claire Gervais, Julien Gourdin, Kiana Hubert-Low, Christophe Jarosz, David Jong, Ella Max Jonker, Martine Joubert, Stella Krausz, Angela Kurz, Louis Labadens, Yasmina Lammler, Isa Lamotte, Rebecca Lang, Renaud Lemor, Lin Lin, Anabelle Locks, Margaux Lourdin, Romain Lutinier, Coralie Maccagno, Frank Martinet, Louise Mercat, Pierre Millouz, Nathalie Monbaron, Claire Montmayeur, Marguerite Morand, Glenn Morel, David Newnham, Berenice Ouedraogo, Djiko Perez, Gaelle Pertel, Bertrand Petitbois, Marlen Pflueger, Marie-Joelle Potiron, Thomas Preier, Matheo Prunarety, Paul Ramon, Maxime Renaud, Lila Ritched, Christian Tessier, Pavel Tos, Maria Trepper, Gilles Viandier, Pia Wiesner, Laetitia Willman

Rehearsal director Hugo Le Brigand, Katharina Senk, Mim Schneider

DJ Boris Kopeinig

Light design Sergio Pessanha

Production Niki Fischer

Company Management Margot Wehinger

Social Media Esther Brandl

International Distribution Something Great

Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.

Project partners of the Habitat-series are donaufestival / Krems, ImPulsTanz / Vienna in cooperation with Wiener Secession, Tanzquartier Wien, Münchner Kammerspiele, Tanzfestival Rhein-Main (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm / Frankfurt a. M. and Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main), Wildwuchs Festival / Basel, Nowy Teatr / Warszawa, Frascati / Amsterdam, Perform Europe (Plexus Rouge / Marseille, Rosendal Teater / Trondheim, Mayfest / Bristol), DOMENIG STEINHAUS / Carinthia, BRITNEY X Festival / Cologne, Metropolis / Copenhagen