Joana Tischkau

Ich nehm dir alles weg

Ein Schlagerballett
Joana Tischkau

is an artist, choreographer and director. She completed her bachelor’s degree in dance and acting at the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University in England. During the master’s programme in choreography and performance at the University of Gießen’s Department of Applied Theatre Studies, she developed an artistic practice that combines the fields of discourse on racism, feminism, popular culture and Black German identity, and dispenses with didactic approaches in negotiating them. Her pieces PLAYBLACK, BEING PINK AIN’T EASY, Colonastics, DMSUBM, KARNEVAL and YO BRO have toured across Europe and were invited to various festivals, including Tanzplattform Deutschland (Munich & Berlin), Impulse Festival NRW, Wiener Festwochen, Radikal Jung Festival in Munich and Brecht Festival in Augsburg. In 2024, Joana Tischkau received the Tabori Prize from the German Performing Arts Fund (Fonds Darstellende Künste).

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Artistic direction, choreography Joana Tischkau Performance, choreography Dayron Domínguez Piedra, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Ellias Hampe, Anne-Kathrin Hartmann, Moses Leo, Deborah Macauley, Carlos Daniel Valladores Carvajal, Sophie Yukiko Sound Frieder Blume Costume Nadine Bakota Stage design Carlo Siegfried Technical direction, light design Hendrik Borowski Collaboration direction Anta Helena Recke Production management Lisa Gehring Production assistance Lianne Mol Stage design assistance Marie Göhler Outside eye, input Mariama Diagne Cooperation research Malpaso Dance Company, Verbindungsbüro Goethe-Institut Havanna Production Joana Tischkau Co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main

Ich nehm dir alles weg

Ein Schlagerballett

What do Pina Bausch and the ZDF Hit Parade have in common, especially in terms of their nation-building character? Inspired by the subtitle Schlagerballett (‘hit ballet’) of an early work by Bausch and her company, which could perhaps be described as one of Germany’s most successful exports of high culture, choreographer and performer Joana Tischkau sets out in search of ways to queer the German national narrative. In the tradition of Black German pop stars such as Roberto Blanco, Randolph Rose, Marie Nejar, and Tina Daute, the performers dance and sing their way to an aesthetic Germanness that makes sense regardless of Whiteness and heteronormativity

In this piece, Joana Tischkau – who is one of the co-initiators of Österreichisches Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music, which was established in Vienna in 2022 – opens yet another box from the archive of the Black German-speaking entertainment industry to examine the bizarre matrix of nation, showbiz, and white supremacy.

Artist Talk following the performance on Sat 15.02., Eike Wittrock (theatre and dance scholar, dramaturg) in conversation with Joana Tischkau and Elisabeth Clarke (choreographer and pedagogue, former ensemble member Tanztheater Wuppertal). In German.

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Joana Tischkau

is an artist, choreographer and director. She completed her bachelor’s degree in dance and acting at the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University in England. During the master’s programme in choreography and performance at the University of Gießen’s Department of Applied Theatre Studies, she developed an artistic practice that combines the fields of discourse on racism, feminism, popular culture and Black German identity, and dispenses with didactic approaches in negotiating them. Her pieces PLAYBLACK, BEING PINK AIN’T EASY, Colonastics, DMSUBM, KARNEVAL and YO BRO have toured across Europe and were invited to various festivals, including Tanzplattform Deutschland (Munich & Berlin), Impulse Festival NRW, Wiener Festwochen, Radikal Jung Festival in Munich and Brecht Festival in Augsburg. In 2024, Joana Tischkau received the Tabori Prize from the German Performing Arts Fund (Fonds Darstellende Künste).

Credits

Artistic direction, choreography Joana Tischkau Performance, choreography Dayron Domínguez Piedra, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Ellias Hampe, Anne-Kathrin Hartmann, Moses Leo, Deborah Macauley, Carlos Daniel Valladores Carvajal, Sophie Yukiko Sound Frieder Blume Costume Nadine Bakota Stage design Carlo Siegfried Technical direction, light design Hendrik Borowski Collaboration direction Anta Helena Recke Production management Lisa Gehring Production assistance Lianne Mol Stage design assistance Marie Göhler Outside eye, input Mariama Diagne Cooperation research Malpaso Dance Company, Verbindungsbüro Goethe-Institut Havanna Production Joana Tischkau Co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main

14.02./
15.02.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
70 min
14.02./
15.02.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
70 min
TQW Halle G
€ 25/20/12

In German

The performance features fast lighting effects and stage fog.

 
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