“lautLOS1.6” – deconstruction of memory

with audio description and accompanying touch tour at 7:15 p.m. (advance registration required!)

Saturday, 6 December 2025, 8:00 p.m.

IPtanz is celebrating its birthday and we would like to celebrate with you.

A small supporting programme offers insights into our work over the past years. After the performances, the artists will be available for discussions.

More at www.ip-tanz.com

We look forward to seeing you.

 

lautLOS1.6 – A multimedia dance installation by IPtanz with two solos by Silvia Ehnis Pérez Duarte and Ilona Pászthy from absence#5 – deconstruction of memory.

Two autobiographically inspired monologues against the disappearance of memory and the power of forgetting. An atmosphere created from documentary material, memories, animations by Anna Mahendra and a stage object by miegL.

Silvia Ehnis Perez Duarte / D / Mexico: Raised in Mexico, Silvia Ehnis has been living in Germany since 2012. Her family from the Stuttgart area emigrated before the First World War, returned briefly during the Weimar Republic, and then settled permanently in Mexico. What traces remain when a life is continued on another continent? “My great-grandfathers emigrated to Mexico a hundred years ago and settled in the German community. The families experienced the Nazi regime only from a distance, and their connection to Germany faded.” Conversations with her family reveal a complex cultural heritage that ties in with Ilona Pászthy’s examination of “perpetrators and followers.”

Ilona Pászthy / D: What invisible traces of the past do I carry within me? How can I trace the memories inscribed in my DNA and their significance for my identity? For years, I have been researching the unexplained areas of my family history, searching for connections between my own experiences and the biographies of my ancestors during the Nazi era. Images from my childhood meet fragmentary information. In my solo performance, I metaphorically approach the blind spots of my memory, questioning identity, conformity, perpetration, origin and epigenetic traces.

“… Ilona Pászthy has succeeded in creating a production that is as complex as it is densely structured. Narrative and dance combine in an emotional moment of movement…” (Thomas Linden, Kölnische Rundschau, 10 September 2024)

Choreography Ilona Pászthy, Silvia Ehnis

Dance Ilona Pászthy, Diana Treder (in Vertretung von Silvia Ehnis)

Stage miegL

Video animation Anna Mahendra

Music Zsolt Varga

Technic Garlef Keßler, Christoph Wedi

Audio description Uschi Baetz

We would like to thank our sponsors: Ministry of Art and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, NS Documentation Centre Cologne, Cultural Office Siegburg, Cultural Office Krefeld in cooperation with the NS Documentation Centre Krefeld / Villa Merländer.

FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME:

7:15 p.m. – Physical-somatic introduction
7:15 p.m. – Touch tour and audio description (registration required)

ACCESSIBILITY:

Pick-up service for blind and visually impaired people from Michaelshoven railway station, touch tour and audio description (registration required)

Ticket reservations / registration for pick-up, audio description and touch tour:

karten@ip-tanz.com or 0157 – 57 930 117

more Informationen at www.ip-tanz.com