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TAMBOURINES
Trajal Harrell / Zürich Dance Ensemble
Premiere: 7. Februar 2024 (Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schiffbau-Box)
Deutschland-Premiere: 12. April 2025
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin
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Zum Inhalt: Trajal Harrell's “Tambourines” is a rousing dance performance about shame, resistance and change. Inspired by the novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the choreography shows how Hester Prynne is punished for her independence in the 17th century – but what if the story had unfolded differently? In a maelstrom of love, jealousy and revenge, the dancers celebrate the power of change together with the audience.
“If further proof had been needed, ‘Tambourines’ provided it, proof that sensitive, contemporary dance can be the most dazzling expression of the present with a deep effect on the nervous system. Harrell's touching, musical, intellectual, aesthetically simply ravishing dance works are among the most beautiful to be seen on European stages in recent years,” reports Wiebke Hüster after the premiere of “Tambourines” at Centre Pompidou at the Paris Festival d’automne (FAZ, 28.11.2023).
Staging, choreography, set design, costume design, soundtrack: Trajal Harrell / With: Frances Chiaverini, New Kyd, Perle Palombe, Trajal Harrell, Songhay Toldon, Ondrej Vidlar / Lighting: Sylvain Rausa / Sound design: Trajal Harrell, Santiago Latorre / Rehearsal directors: Stephen Thompson, Vânia Doutel Vaz / Dramaturgy: Katinka Deecke / Produktionsassistenz: Camille Charlotte Roduit / Technical team: Susanne Affolter, Ulrich Kellermann, Liv Senn / Touring & International relations: Björn Pätz