ON ANGER
Choreographer: Anna Konjetzky
Performer: Sarah Huby
Date: 13th of June
Time: 8:30PM
Location: Sunflower Theater
For reservation: Antoine ticketing or +961 71 051 524
“ANGER” is written in LED letters above the stage where the dancer Sahra Huby is acting important, flexing her muscles, opening her mouth wide, squeezing her eyebrows together, baring her teeth. Anger grips the body and enlarges the body; we spit blood, we foam at the mouth, anger takes our breath away and takes possession of our muscles, eyes, and voice, changes and distorts them, and lets our body appear grotesque, threatening, aggressive, but also humorous and comical – and so, on the wall behind Sahra Huby celebrities and politicians flicker and flutter, but also cartoons. In her solo piece “On Anger” Anna Konjetzky investigates this emotion as an individual emotion and as a condition produced by social structures.
An entire arsenal of personal, political, and pop cultural gestures of anger are dissected and thoroughly examined. Huby slows down, fragmentizes, rhythmizes, elongates the movements, and in doing so she gives them an unexpected beauty and elegance, only to rage and erupt again in the next moment. Images of revolts, protests, and demonstrations appear, and the dancer adopts them and makes them her own. Anger is also a constructive energy, as an engine and impulse for social change. Iconic gestures – the raised fist of the Black Power Movement, wrists crossed over one another, the middle finger – proclaim the assault on unjust conditions, an attack on the powers that be, on existing hierarchies and structures.
“On Anger” examines the potentiality of anger – especially women’s anger – with movement, images, music, and texts. On this stage Sahra Huby is an angry woman, and she also brings onto the stage all those angry women from the present and the past as witnesses to be at her side – from Clytemnestra to Joan of Arc, and all the way to Rosa Parks and Audre Lorde. Together with them the work poses the question about a fundamental and radical transformation.
Choreography, stage Anna Konjetzky // dance: Sahra Huby // Music: Brendan Dougherty // Costume-design: Michiel Keuper, Martin Sieweke // Video: Susanne Steinmassl // Light, stage: Barbara Westernach // LED–construction: Timm Burkhardt // production management: Rat & Tat Kulturbüro // PR: Simone Lutz
DanceLab
About the workshop: Transforming, Protesting & Sounding Body
In this one-week workshop, culminating in a public sharing, choreographer Anna Konjetzky and dancer Sarah Huby will share choreographic tools and insights from their artistic practices. At the same time, they invite participants into a collaborative laboratory to explore various themes and physicalities.
Themes
How can our bodies morph through movement and transform into something else?
What is our dancing body? What is our pedestrian body?
Which dances are already embedded in our bodies.
Through observation and awareness, the workshop will focus on amplifying existing micro-movements—rhythmizing, sharpening, and crystallizing them into dance. A key element of the workshop will be exploring the concept of the affirming/protesting body—the idea that our bodies can act as political statements, capable of expressing agency, entering into dialogue or conflict, and speaking a language of their own.
By treating the body as a medium of communication, we will also investigate it as a “voice.”
Our bodies can be loud. How do they sound?
The workshop offers a playful and inquisitive approach to these themes, moving fluidly between physical training, movement scores, creative tasks, and open-ended exploration.
Dates and Levels
Daily Morning Classes
June 15 to 20 – 10 AM to 11:00 AM
Open to all
Master Class
June 14th – 10 AM to 12 PM
Open to all
DanceLab
June 15 to 20 – 10 AM to 3 PM.
Performers and dancers with experience.
Public Sharing
Friday June 20th, at 7pm.
Where?
Training Location: Houna Center, Hamra
Sharing Location: Beit Beirut
Fees
Morning Class: Donation based (Suggested 10$)
DanceLab: FREE (limited Spots)*
*We also have a “pay as you want” option as support for Beirut Physical Lab community and future projects. This will support the organization’s sustainability.
About Anna
Anna Konjetzky is a choreographer and artist based in Munich. Since 2005, she has been creating dance pieces and installations that explore social and political themes through the body, often focusing on community and space. Her work has been presented internationally in cities such as Brussels, Warsaw, Nairobi, Hanoi, Istanbul, and São Paulo.
She also creates for established dance companies like Staatstheater Saarbrücken and teaches regularly at universities including SEAD Salzburg, ZZT Cologne, and MDT Amsterdam. Anna has received numerous awards and grants, including the Munich Dance Prize and a nomination for the German Theatre Prize FAUST. Her company, Anna Konjetzky & Co, produces new work with long-term support from the City of Munich and TANZPAKT through her ongoing research project, the Nomadic Academy.