Orange
ist nicht
allein
Dance Theater by
Neele Buchholz and Tomas Bünger
Orange ist nicht allein” (Orange is not Alone) is about people, feelings and differences. It is about colors, encounters and being together. In the dance theater performance, eight dancers with and without disabilities move about on the stage. They move about in spaces. They move into them, they move around in them, they move together. They move out of them, they move in a different space.
Sometimes slowly, sometimes fast. Sometimes chaos, sometimes storm. Together, somewhere in the basement party room. They dance together, like in a real whirl. They hold each other, they belong to each other. They are very close, they are connected. They play, they take themselves seriously. Not silent like a statue, not boring. Everyone is important, no one is excluded. Everyone sits in the corner. Blue like friendship, purple like a paint box, black like the night. Skin like a human and feeling and transparent. Orange would like to be seen, orange belongs to the group. Maybe we will go to the balcony and take a look at how a rainbow disperses. Maybe we will find a space—for me, for you, for us. Maybe we will find it here.
Neele Buchholz (1991 in Bremen) is a freelance dancer and actress and has Down syndrome. She has made more than 300 stage appearances in Germany and abroad (among others, in “T4. Ophelias Garten,” directed by David Stöhr) and played roles in films (among others, in “Eldorado KaDeWe,” directed by Julia von Heinz). She began her career in 2013 as a permanently employed dancer with tanzbar bremen e.V.* Since 2022 she has been working full-time as a freelance artist. The themes of eye level and love often play an important role in her artistic work.
Tomas Bünger studied classical and modern stage dance and was a longstanding member of Tanztheater Bremen. He then completed an integrative dance teacher training course in New York and was a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires. For many years, he regularly worked with the support of the Goethe-Institute in Bangladesh and was an artistic resident in Togo, Romania and India. He received diverse teaching assignments. His choreographic work focuses on dancing humans and their relationship to the world.
The ensemble of “Orange ist nicht allein” was jointly casted by Neele and Tom following a casting call.
Credits
Idea: Neele Buchholz
Direction, Choreopgraphy: Tomas Bünger
Dance Neele Buchholz, Aladdin Detlefsen, Tim Gerhards, Helene Düring Kjær, Deodatt Persaud, Paula Pröbrock, Damiaan Veens, Pierre Zinke
Stage & Costume Design: Anne Herzet
Lighting: Jürgen Kääriäinen
Production Management: Anne Storm
Artistic Assistance: Anne Herzet
Rehearsal, Work Assistance: Lara Loeser, Joanna André, Fanny Altmann, Lars Gerhardt
Photography: Daniela Buchholz
The texts spoken on stage are by the dancers.
The voice-over text is by Aladdin Detlefsen.
Music:
Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
Laat me niet alleen - Jacques Brel
Down all Hands (Billy Bud) - Benjamin Britten
Masar - Le Trio Joubran
Pour Vivre Ensemble - Frida Boccara
Coproduction: Schwankhalle. Funded by Performing Arts Fund from funds provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senator for Culture in Bremen, the Waldemar Koch Foundation, and Sparkasse Bremen
Thanks to: Zentrum für Kunst Bremen, House of Resources, Inclusive shared apartment in the Blauhaus