Germany – World premiere of "Hamlet" by Dewey Dell
World premiere of the new performance by Dewey Dell Hamlet at the Tanznacht Berlin: Vertigo (Part Two).
It is a new research in dance and theatre Teodora, Agata and Demetrio Castellucci have carried on starting from an essential aspect of human existence: being born from others. We all learn to live by developing imitative models, but as we grow up, we must free ourselves from what the others – explicitly or secretly – have in mind for us.
The Company’ presentation explains that the character of Hamlet in the tragedy by Shakespeare seems lost and immobilized by the order to avenge his father imposed on him. Hamlet cannot fulfil his father’s wish until the very end of the tragedy and for the greater part of the drama he is unable to act.
The idea around which the show has been developed is the son’s profoundly human inability of doing, while the choreographic research has moved around the concept of corporeity that the trance rites of possession all around the world have in common. Hamlet’s mental condition is similar to the condition of a possessed person: his human identity is suspended in order to create space for a divinity to occupy the body, he has to become nothing and no-one but a container.
So, Hamlet by Dewey Dell has a new "dress" (the word 'dress' in Latin habitus means ‘way to be’, from the Greek héxis): a tunic of skin that will be worn by someone else.
Hamlet, coproduced with Tanzfabrik Berlin and supported by the Capital Cultural Fund, is scheduled at the Uferstudios from July 21 to 24, throughout the duration of the Festival (07:00 pm, at Studio 14).
Tanznacht Berlin: Vertigo (Part Two)