The Witch Dance by Mary Wigman from 1926 was reconstructed for the BaBa-Fest 2023 with the dancer Nannette Banisch together with the dancer Katharine Sehnert, who still studied with Wigman herself. For the re-enactment of the choreography, the surviving but incomplete film recording served as the basis, and further research was added.
Wigman's "Witches' Dance" formed the starting point for dance miniatures by students of the Bauhaus University Weimar, which they developed together with students of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
The students dealt intensively with the ambivalent figure of the witch, who at the same time frightens, but also encourages them to question supposed identities and orders. The project "a witch's dance" is designed as an exploration in manifold perspectives; it opens horizons for thinking in contradictions and in movement and stimulates reflection on norms and transformations. Dance and research, investigation and performance intertwine.
The project "a witch dance" is fragment 3 in the series of productions of the bauhaus.media.stage laboratory.
Project management: Simon Frisch
Dance: Nannette Banisch
Coach: Katherine Sehert
The performance will take place on July 8, 2023 at 5 p.m. in the Weimar Schießhaus.