MINDGARDEN
A choreographic project by Jochen Roller

In his choreographic project MINDGARDEN, Jochen Roller examines the developing process of choreography by tracing the origins of movement. In different showings, each one having a different cast, the choreographer reveals his choreograhic work methods in front of the audience and thereby questions the function of these methods.

In MINDGARDEN the dancer’s movements are choreographic patterns which, as traces, refer to the situations in which these patterns were made. MINDGARDEN grows as the dancers follow these traces by dancing after them. This makes the dancers prompting themselves as they ‘bodyprompt’ the situations in which they have moved already before: Thus, the dance of the doubles informs about the development and function of the choreography.

Premiere: 21.5.2004 im HAU 3, Berlin

A production by Jochen Roller in Coproduction with Kampnagel Hamburg, supported by HAU Berlin and PODEWIL Berlin.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Fonds Darstellende Künste

#1 (my lips moved) and you missed it.
Kampnagel Hamburg, 31.3., 2. + 3.4.2004, (try out)
Choreography/Performance:
Irina Müller, Martin Nachbar, Jochen Roller

Artistic Director: Jochen Roller
Artistic Collaboration: Florian Feigl
Camera / Editing: Dorothea Grießbach
Production Manager: Ans Brockfeld

#2 you know that you want it and how.
HAU 3 Berlin, 21. – 23.5.2004
Choreography/Performance:
Jiri Bartovanec, Ellen Cremer, Rosiris Garrido, Felix Marchand, Irina Müller, Martin Nachbar, Jochen Roller

Artistic Director: Jochen Roller
Artistic Collaboration: Florian Feigl
Camera / Editing: Dorothea Grießbach
Costumes: Katharina Beth
Light Design: Marek Lamprecht
Production Manager: Ans Brockfeld