STAGES INTO THE NOW - A FILM SERIES

2021 Wuppertal / 2022 Ancient Messene / 2023 Nicosia

2021-2023

STAGES INTO THE NOW is both a series of films and a solo for Scott Jennings.

As a series of films, a triptych, different disciplines and generations meet to attend to three wounded locations, the Wuppertal Opera house, Germany, the ancient city of Messini, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus to transform them into places of cure and worlds revived.

2021 Wuppertal


11 September 2021
A live sharing of „acts of tenderness“, movements, images, sounds, texts
16:00 + 18:00 + 20:00
cubic studios, Düsseldorf, Germany

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With: Scott Jennings, Horst Weierstall; Film by: Alexandra Waierstall; Director of photography: Cédric Hopf, Sören Parker; Music: Volker Bertelmann © Needle Wood Publishing Edition/Bosworth Music; Editing: Cédric Hopf, Sören Parker; Text: Maria Iole Karolidou, Alexandra Waierstall, Horst Weierstall; Costumes: Alexandra Waierstall, Horst Weierstall; Choreographic assistance: Ying Yun Chen; Colorist: Cédric Hopf, Sören Parker; Technical support: Fredy Deisenroth; Management: Judith Jaeger

Production: Noema Dance Works e.V.; Supported by: the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance, Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. And the kind support of: Opernhaus Wuppertal, tanzhaus nrw, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Pina Bausch Zentrum, Kulturbüro Wuppertal.

2022 Ancient Messene


Summer 2022, Region of Peloponnese, Region Unit of Messenia

With: Ying Yun Chen, Amy Josh, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Evangelia Randou, Eftychia Stefanou, Karolina Szymura; Film by: Alexandra Waierstall; Director of photography: Cédric Hopf, Sören Parker; Editing: Cédric Hopf, Sören Parker; Costumes: Alexandra Waierstall, Horst Weierstall; Management: Judith Jaeger

Production: Noema Dance Works e.V.; Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.