AEROBICS! —
A BALLET IN 3 ACTS

Aerobics! – A Ballet in 3 Acts is a piece for seven dancers that develops a new perspective on aerobics as both a form of exercise and the physical training practice that took the world by storm in the 1980s. Within a three-act structure, dancers investigate the relationship between dance, choreography and aerobics in terms of its aesthetics and coordinated movements. The piece becomes a precise study and reinterpretation of the way this fitness practice is structured beneath the surface. The vocabulary of aerobic movement is brought into an unusual structural and spatial relationship, disassembled and then put back together. It is treated as choreographic dance material, and has dramaturgical linearity and content applied to it in order to develop it into movements and alternating rhythms.

"Standing ovations for a breathtaking evening"
Martina Dreisbach, Frankfurter Neue Presse

For Aerobics!, the dancer and choreographer Paula Rosolen was awarded the first prize at the international competition "Danse Élargie", organized by the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, and the Musée de la danse in Rennes.

A production by Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide and M.i.C.A in co-production with Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, the Musée de la danse/Centre chorégraphique national for Rennes and Bretagne, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Sophiensæle Berlin. With funding from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Fonds Transfabrik – Deutsch-französischer Fonds für darstellende Künste, Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts.

CREDITS:
Concept and choreography: Paula Rosolen
Created with and danced by: Jungyun Bae, Teresa Forstreuter/ Sanna Lundström, Gabriela Gobbi, Christopher Matthews, Marko Milic, Sabine Prokop, Paula Rosolen
Lighting design and technical management: Tanja Rühl
Costumes: J. M. Fielbelkorn , Anika Alischewski, Takako Senda
Artistic consulting: J. M. Fiebelkorn
Dramaturgical advisor: Anna Wagner, Marcus Droß
Choreographic assistance: Christopher Matthews
Research assistance: David Morrow
Technical assistance: Lea Schneidermann
Training: Berchy da Silva, Henrik Goehle
Production: Jana Lüthje (M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art) und Haptic Hide
Company Manager (6.2015-1.2017): Karin Berrío
Press: Kathrin Schäfer KulturPR
Graphic design: Alexander Michaelopoulos, Florian Krauß
Photography: Laurent Philippe, Florian Krauß
With special thanks to: Miriam Würtz, Friederike Thielmann, Jeff Friedman.