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SELF CREATED
2023
a short film by Sophie Gisbertz
A constant change between two worlds - inside and outside, reality and dream, memory and imagination. What happens when the boundaries begin to dissolve?
The demarcation from nature is becoming more and more apparent today. In our artificial parallel universes in urban space, we only recognise fragments of what can still be found "outside" in unadulterated form. STAYING INSIDE reveals the contrasts between nature and our alienated reality indoors by merging dance, film and music into a unique language.
premiered in June 2023 within the scope of
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tanz.tausch tanz und performance festival, tanz.parcour Mönchengladbach (Germany)
and was further shown at
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tanz.tausch tanz und performance festival 2023 at Tanzfaktur, Cologne (Germany)
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Zêzerecinedancefestival 2024, Ferreira do Zêzere (Portugal)
screenings in 2025
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KITOKI Video_dance exposition, online and at au JUS, Brussels (Belgium)
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Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance, Feuerbacher Kulturnacht, Stuttgart (Germany)
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Explorez Festival, ZID Theater, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
STAYING INSIDE
This project was supported by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts as part of the scholarship programme "Junge Kunst und neue Wege" (*Young Art and New Pathways).
Credits:
Artistic Director, Dance/Choreography, Costume/Set Design: Sophie Gisbertz
Director of Photography: Jannik Klingel
Directors: Antonia Weber, Julian Brust
Editing, Colour Grading: Ebrahim Alfadhala
Hair + Make-up: Vanessa John
Music + Sound Composition: Daniel Alcheh
2nd Assistant Camera: Felix Maul
COLLABORATIONS
With 15 artists from Ukraine, the USA and Germany, the 18th edition of the CAMP Festival took place from 4 - 7 September 2024 at Wagenhallen Stuttgart. New forms of artistic cooperation and presentation have been explored and practised in this unique art laboratory.
Insomnia Taxxi I UA I Sound
Dmytro Radzetskyi I UA I Sound
Svitlana Reinish I UA I Visuals
Khrystyna Slobodianiuk I UA I Dance
Daria Vesthak I UA I Sound, Visuals
Niklas Wallbaum I DE I Installation
Anna Illenberger I DE I Sound
Volker Illi I DE I Installation
Kasumi I USA I Visuals
Dan Wilcox I USA, DE I Sound, Performance
Sophie Gisbertz I DE I Dance
VJ Juladi I DE I Visuals
Martin Mangold I DE I exhibition designer
Thomas Maos I DE I Sound
Fried Dähn I DE I Sound
Stefan Hartmaier I DE I exhibition designer
Photography: Frank Post, Jens Volle
Videography, Trailer: Jona Riese
Festival partners, funders and supporters: Musikfonds e.V., The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, Wagenhallen Stuttgart, ZKM Karlsruhe, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg.
CAMP
Better Version of Myself - COSBY
official music video, release 2022
Tryna to be a better version of myself
Or am I only trying to be somebody else ?
Produced by COSBY
Directed by Robin Karow
1st AD: Marie Kobylka
Camera, Steadicam Operator: Christoph Werner
1st AC: Alexander Mitzler
Set Manager: Kilian Reischl
Hair + Make-up: Oksana Onischuk
Choreography: Sophie Gisbertz, Lisa Stanowski
Cast: Sophie Gisbertz, Lisa Stanowski, Léon Götz aka Lélé Cocoon, David Lovric, Miguel Ángel Osorio Mena, Tamica, Chris Fandrey, Dennis Koller aka Angel
© 2017 JustPushPlay
Better Version of Myself
Vox ex Nihilo
2022-23
Theaterhaus Stuttgart (Germany)
“Vox ex nihilo” (*Voice out of nowhere) is an inclusive music, theatre and dance performance that questions the importance of the voice from social, political and cultural perspectives and aims to make many different voices heard. It addresses the changes that the pandemic has had on social and cultural behaviour, in particular the restrictions on the voice in a hearing society due to the wearing of masks. The performance explores the political potential of the voice and refers to the protests in Belarus and the Russian-Ukrainian war. In collaboration with the deaf performer Sabine Scherbel, it poses the question of whether we can perceive and understand each other by making ourselves vulnerable. The performance creates a space for voice and silence and encourages a dialogue between different forms of communication in order to develop a better understanding of their meaning and possibilities.
Artistic Direction, Vocals: Viktoriia Vitrenko
Performance: Sabine Scherbel
Direction: Jasmin Schädler
Libretto: Jasmin Schädler and Tanja Langer
Choreography: Sophie Gisbertz
Composition: Alexandra Filonenko, Mattia Bonafini, Rainer Rubbert
Sound Direction: Ui-Kyung Lee
Stage Design: Susanne Brendel
Light Design: Alexander Joseph
Costume Design: Laura Yoro
Sign Language Interpreters: Hannah Häberle, Tanja Lilienblum-Steck
Project Management: Sophie Gisbertz
Production: InterAKT Initiative e.V.
Photos: Oliver Röckle
In cooperation with the Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance Stuttgart and Musik der Jahrhunderte
Supported by the impulse programme ‘Culture despite Corona’ of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart, Wüstenrot Foundation, Dachstiftung für individuelles Schenken im GLS Treuhand e.V. and the Stuttgarter Kollektiv für aktuelle Musik e.V.
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT
2023-24
FITZ Theater animierter Formen, “Freiraum” at Linden-Museum Stuttgart (Germany)
Alienation is when nothing shines, when nothing grips us,
and when nothing can put us on the ground.
(Heinz Bude)
The feeling of alienation creeps up on everyone in one way or another at some point in their lives. The lost connection to our body, to nature, to real togetherness becomes a piercing, aching void. So does alienation lead straight to dystopia? Into the quasi-bodiless society that is purely subject to the dictates of expediency and functioning? alieNation explores this complex theme visually, physically and spatially. The experimental set-up: a temporally undefined future. What is still a tendency today has reached its logical end point here. The piece unexpectedly transports a small group into a nature-like environment far from any civilisation, forcing them to rediscover their humanity. The choreographer Eva Baumann translates this play into ambivalent images that are as oppressive as they are fascinating in their beauty. Intertwined bodies form sculptural landscapes, become enigmatic hybrid objects in which the human, the animal and the mechanical are mixed. And in which the longing for cohesion shines through just as much as the fear of losing one's own individuality.
Artistic Direction, Choreography: Eva Baumann / Cie. ZEIT/GEIST
Current Cast: Aurora Bonetti, Bar Gonen, Yen Lee, Susanna Ylikoksi/Eva Baumann
Costume Design: Laura Yoro
Stage Set: Eva Baumann, Laura Yoro
Light, Technique: Ingo Jooß, Lorenz Uhlig
Research Collaboration/ Co-creation: Mathilde Roussin, Rachael Mauney, Jan Jedenak, Hannah Schillinger, Priscilla Pizziol, Marie Hanna Klemm, Kathrin Knöpfle
Music: Michael Berentsen
Choreographic Assistants: Sophie Gisbertz (Stuttgart), Barbara Conde (Berlin)
Production Assistant: Luise Leschik
Photos: Ingo Jooẞ
alieNation or: Strangers in a world that they themselves have made is a production of Cie. ZEIT/GEIST. Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart as part of a conceptual grant and the LaFT Baden-Württemberg with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. The research phase was funded by an individual grant from the Fonds Darstellende Künste in the framework of #TakeCare in 2021 and by NPN/Joint Adventures in the Stepping Out programme for the conception of the ZEIT/GEIST trilogy. Both programmes were funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART Kultur. Assistance Programme Dance..
With the kind support of FITZ - Theater animierter Formen Stuttgart, Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance Stuttgart, Uferstudios Berlin and Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart gUG.
alieNation
2020-22
EUGEN ONEGIN Lyrical Scenes, Opera
Music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Peter I. Tchaikovsky and Konstantin S. Schilowsky
Based on the verse novel ‘Eugene Onegin’ by Alexander Pushkin
Reduced orchestral version by Pyotr Alexandrovich Klimov commissioned by the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
Musical Direction: Anthony Bramall
Director, Stage Design: Ben Baur
Choreography: Lillian Stillwell
Choreographic Assistant, Rehearsal Direction Dance: Sophie Gisbertz
Costumes: Uta Meenen
Lights: Michael Heidinger
Choir Rehearsal: Felix Meybier
Dramaturgy: Michael Alexander Rinz
Opera Cast: Ann-Katrin Naidu, Camille Schnoor, Anna-Katharina Tonauer, Anna Agathonos, Mathias Hausmann, Lucian Krasznec, Sava Vemić, Martin Hausberg, Timos Sirlantzis, Juan Carlos Falcón, Petar Ivanov, Elsa Mackensen
Dance: Sophie Gisbertz, Marcell Johnson, Alexander Jürgens, Dirk Lambrecht, Tanja Milosevic, Hema Schübel, Johannes Thumser, Katinka Wöhling
with the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
Photos: Christian POGO Zach
Eugen Onegin
