Dance artist Eva Baumann, in collaboration with Israeli dancer Bar Gonen, performer and puppeteer Laura Boser and scenographer Katrin Wittig, will be in residence at Dance Limerick for two weeks starting August 14th. They will be developing her new work homo migrans_ (working title).
Based on family storytelling and the inheritance of trauma, “homo migrans_” (working title) deals with the loss of homeland, language and one’s own identity. From the grandchildren’s perspective, the research reconstructs the pieces of the puzzle of the life of a dying generation of grandparents. It’s a piece about the restless within us, about healing and repair and the search for what makes us feeling at home.
During the residency Eva Baumann will start with 2 performers and a scenographer to make the first sketches merging elements of dance with puppetry, figural and object theatre. Eva Baumann will be accompanied by three collaborators: the Israeli dancer Bar Gonen, the performer and puppeteer Laura Boser and the scenographer Katrin Wittig with whom Eva is working regularly since 2015.
As a border crosser between dance theatre, performance and installation, Eva has been initiating and producing her own choreographic work since 2012. Since 2020 she has also been involved with puppetry and the medium of film, and since her trilogy “herstory” (2017-2019) with content-related mediation for and with the audience.The Percolate residency will allow the space, support and time to further develop relationships between artistic collaborators and will act as a springboard to gain a bigger production value for the piece.
Being in residence at Dance Limerick will provide an inspiring and creative space to focus on the work thematically and physically, allowing the new surroundings to inspire the creative process. Becky will be opening up her work to the wider artistic community in Limerick through professional classes and a sharing of her work in progress on Thursday 24th August 2023 at 4pm.
Eva is a dancer, choreographer and movement facilitator.
As a border crosser between dance theatre, performance and installation, she has been initiating and producing her own choreographic work since 2012. Since 2020 she has also been involved with puppetry and the medium of film, and since her trilogy “herstory” (2017-2019) with content-related mediation for and with the audience.Her work is characterized by an investigative approach that relates various questions to one another: the body and its various forms of expression as well as dealing with spaces – real or imaginary – are in the foreground and run as a common thread through her work. She creates for theatre spaces, museum spaces or site-specific. In terms of form and aesthetics, she searches for original body images and movement languages, whereby the choice of artistic tools depends on their content and she tends to work with reduction.Artistically, she is interested in aspects of social issues that smolder invisibly in secret – in particular taboo topics such as trauma, violence and mental health – feminist discourses and historical connections between the past, present and future.
