Alles ist vergänglich – die Aufführung, der Körper, das Leben, die Heimat. Aus dem Exil in Deutschland auf sich selbst zurückblickend – als Tänzer, als Sohn, als Mensch – sucht der Choreograf Ivan Estegneev im Moment der Performance einen Ausdruck für das Loslassen und Festhalten. Wie verabschiedet man einen verstorbenen Vater aus der Ferne? Wie kommt man mit einem alternden Körper zurecht? Und was ist mit der Kunst, die verschwindet? Die Solo-Performance *Die Trauer des Dämons* ist eine biographische Reflexion über die Kürze des Augenblicks, der sich mit jedem neuen Atemzug in etwas Neues verwandelt.
Ivan Estegneev
Ivan Estegneev is a renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Dialogue Dance School and Company, which he founded together with his partner Evgeny Kulagin in 2002. Dialogue Dance has since developed into an important centre for contemporary dance in Russia and has been awarded three national theatre prizes, the ‘Golden Mask’, for its performances. The company has worked with major companies from Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria and South Africa. Since 2012, Ivan Estegneev has worked as resident choreographer at the Gogol Center in Moscow, where he developed several performances with Kirill Serebrennikov, including two productions for the main programme of the Avignon Festival. Since 2016, he has collaborated with Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna (TR Warsaw) on five different productions in Poland, Russia and China. From 2015 to 2022 he taught stage movement and film dance at the Moscow Film School. Since 2022 he has been Choreographer-in-Residence at Thalia Theatre and worked on productions such as The Black Monk, The Wij, Barocco, Closed Society and Legend. In 2024, his solo piece Die Trauer des Dämons was premiered in Hamburg in collaboration with Russian and German artists.