:: back "Thomas Lehmen, performer, dancer and choreographer, chooses system theory as his departure point. In "Stations," premiered in Berlin Podewil, he searches for the productive surplus value of system theoretical discoveries for artistic production methods. Thus he comes up with structures to bring together various systems and to investigate their points of contact, forms of reaction, and incompatible elements. To that end, he invites representatives of various occupation groups, allowing the system of context displacement to line-up against the system of dance composition, and brings various experts into the game to speak about socks, Islam, potatoes, money laundering, and the reproductive system of sponges. "Stations," developed each evening with different participants, begins like a seminar under neon lights. An insurance broker, a former prosecutor, a pastor, a delicatessen saleswoman, and a doorman speak about their occupations and discover very quickly as a common pattern the presentation that one must give one’s respective customers, clients, defendants, or believers, and how one trains that. Because, more or less, we all perform. Found interfaces for contentment." Katrin Bettina Müller, Die Profis, taz 10.04.03 7.00 pm Podewil Premiere Ticket: 11/8 Euro Concept: Thomas Lehmen, Production: Sven-Thore Kramm, Assistance: Cécile Buclin, Annette Fricker, Inge von Hehn, Advice: Petra Roggel (Production), Katrin Schoof (Room), Performers: Anke Eckardt, Vera Knolle, Felix Marchand, Irina Müller, Martin Nachbar, Marc Rees, Jochen Roller, People from various professions: Dennis Berger, Knut Ernst, Ullrich Herzfeld, Arno Kölker, Bernd Saremba, Ronny Scharnke, Silvia Scharnke etc., Coproduction: Podewil / Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Kaaitheater Brüssel, Vooruit Gent, with the support of: Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur. Photos: Katrin Schoof www.thomaslehmen.de :: back