LIEBE based on “Se perdre” of Annie Ernaux

“Je veux la perfection de l’amour.” - ‘I want the perfection of love.’ - Annie Ernaux

When does falling in love become a blindness and the desire for physical intimacy becomes an obsession? How does projection become reality, and when does the attraction of the other's inaccessibility and difference become a source of self-destruction?

LIEBE by toaspern|moeller plunges into the many states of love, from intoxicating harmony to desperate dissonance. Excerpts from the diary of Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux blend seamlessly with choreography and song, creating a virtuoso performance that questions a desire born of distance: a sensitive exploration that ranges from the gendered clichés of heterosexual romance to the comic and uncomfortable. For the first time on stage together, dancer and choreographer Alma Toaspern (Corpus, Royal Danish Ballet) and singer and composer Mathias Monrad Møller sing and dance in the poetic set design by renowned Danish artist Christian Friedländer. In this unique interweaving of dance and music unique to the duo, LIEBE highlights the tension between unrequited feelings and the attraction of otherness. The show will be performed in French with English surtitles.

• ARTISTIC DIRECTOR toaspern|moeller
   
• CHOREOGRAPHY + PERFORMANCE Alma Toaspern
   
• COMPOSITION + PERFORMANCE Mathias Monrad Møller
   
• TEXT based on ‘Se perdre’ by Annie Ernaux, © Gallimard
   
• SCENOGRAPHY + COSTUMES Christian Friedländer
   
• LIGHTING Martin Mulik
   
• OUTSIDE EYE Bernhard Siebert
   
• CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT Ottavia Catenacci
   
• COSTUMES AND SCENOGRAPHIC ASSISTANCE Pepita Neureuter
   
• OBJECT CONSTRUCTION Elisabeth Schiller-Witzmann
   
• SOUND ENGINEERING Mikael Tobias
   
• ARTISTIC PRODUCTION (GER) Ulrike Melzwig
   
• ADMINISTRATION Astrid Gravsholt
   
• PRODUCTION (DK) Simone Zwicky
   
• PRODUCTION ASSISTANT K:SELEKT Indre Jankute, Nina D'Hautcourt

LIEBE is a toaspern|moeller production in coproduction with LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Leipzig, and Ballett Basel. Subsidised by Statens Kunstfond (DK), Augustinus Fonden (DK), Knud Højgaards Fond (DK), Wilhelm Hansen Fond (DK), Københavns Kommunne (DK), William Demant Fonden (DK), Art Music Denmark (DK) and Koda Kultur (DK). Funded by the City of Leipzig - Cultural Department and the Freistaat Sachsen (GER). The work of toaspern|moeller is supported by Bikubenfonden (DK).
 

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