{"id":6777,"date":"2025-02-28T16:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/?post_type=nb_production&p=6777"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:05:25","slug":"gossips-the-first-trial","status":"publish","type":"nb_production","link":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/stuecke\/gossips-the-first-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"gossips: the first trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loosely based on Silvia Federici’s term \u201cgossiping\u201d, we will celebrate and question the power of intergenerational mentoring relationships between women*: What practical knowledge can only be passed on through direct exchange and contact because it has never been written down – or because it relates to us individually? And vice versa: What can role models learn from those who emulate them? And where does such a relationship, which is always characterized by a power relationship, reach its limits?<\/p>\n

The dancer and performer Gal Fefferman and her former dance teacher, the dancer Allison Brown, have joined forces as gossips. In a cross-generational dance dialog based on biographical and choreographic material, the two explore their relationship, reflect on their journey together so far and capture it in a forward-looking snapshot of dance and narrative in all its contradictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t

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Choreographer Gal Fefferman, dramaturge Julia Blando and production manager Anno Bolender have been working as a collective in Frankfurt’s independent scene under the name gossips since 2021. They develop interdisciplinary processes that deal with the experiences of women*, especially those who appear on stage in their performances. Their video project \u201cHUNGRY\u201d (2022) can be viewed in full on the website www.gossips-collective.com. \u201cSuperheroes gehen nicht auf’s Klo\u201d is the collective’s last stage work, which premiered in May 2023 at studioNAXOS in Frankfurt, and is currently being presented in schools in rural areas in Hesse as part of FLUX’s guest performance program. gossips supplements its team with associated artists on a project-by-project basis. An important part of our plays is always \u201cgossiping with…\u201d, coming together after a play, after a rehearsal, as like-minded people, as accomplices: We cook for our collaborators and our audience and invite (as an essential part of our understanding of theater) to a feminist exchange.<\/p>\n

Gal Fefferman<\/strong> – concept\/choreography\/dance (www.galfefferman.com)<\/p>\n

Julia Blando<\/strong> – concept\/dramaturgy\/text (www.juliahagendramat.org)<\/p>\n

Anno Bolender<\/strong> – concept\/production management (https:\/\/diskursiveformation.jimdofree.com\/)<\/p>\n

With<\/p>\n

Allison Brown<\/strong> – choreography\/dance<\/p>\n

Maylin Habig<\/strong> – Costumes<\/p>\n

Graphics: @tembelone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supported by the Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Allison Brown, a Canadian born in Morocco, has been active in the field of dance for over 30 years. She is a teacher, rehearsal director, dancer, and choreographer, currently based in Frankfurt am Main.<\/p>\n

She studied ballet at the School of American Ballet (1982\u20131986) and was subsequently invited to join the New York City Ballet (NYCB), where she danced from 1986 to 1991. During her time at NYCB, she performed in a wide range of works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld, among others. Following her growing interest in modern and contemporary dance, she joined Twyla Tharp and Dancers (1991\u20131993), Amanda Miller\u2019s Pretty Ugly Dance Company, and Saburo Teshigawara\u2019s Karas Company (1994\u20131996). After eight years of persistent auditioning and practicing resilience and humility, William Forsythe welcomed Allison into Ballett Frankfurt, where she danced from 1996 to 2004.<\/p>\n

Since 2000, Allison has been teaching and leading workshops. At the invitation of William Forsythe, she has staged his works such as Duo<\/em> and Workwithinwork<\/em> for dance companies around the world.<\/p>\n

From 2011 to 2019, she was a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt (HfMDK), and from 2019 to 2023, she held a professorship in ballet and contemporary dance at the Center for Contemporary Dance (ZZT) at the University of Music and Dance Cologne (HfMT).<\/p>\n

Allison Brown has been working as a choreographer since 1998. Her choreographic work includes creations for Pretty Ugly\/Ballett Freiburg, K\u00fcnstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Transitions Dance Company Laban (London), G\u00e4rtnerplatztheater (Munich), as well as pieces for the HfMDK (Frankfurt) and ZZT at the HfMT (Cologne). She is also actively committed to advocating for the rights and working conditions of dancers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Gal Fefferman, born in Israel, studied Contemporary Dance at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. Since 2017, she has been working as a choreographer, collaborating with musical director Nicolai Bernstein and the Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt. Their joint project on Gershwin\u2019s An American in Paris<\/em> premiered in 2021 at the Alte Oper stage. In 2022, she developed the documentary dance film project HUNGRY<\/em> with her collective GOSSIPS at studioNAXOS, and in 2023, the performance Superheroes gehen nicht aufs Klo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As a dancer and performer, Gal Fefferman regularly works with the Frankfurt company Dorfproduct and in various opera productions, including with Claus Guth (recently for Samson<\/em> at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence). At the Frankfurt Opera, she choreographed Tchaikovsky\u2019s Die Zauberin<\/em> and performed as a dancer in Elektra<\/em>, as well as in numerous productions such as Der Rosenkavalier<\/em>, Les Troyens<\/em>, and Anna Toll<\/em>. She also performed in Die lustige Witwe<\/em>, Dialogue des Carm\u00e9lites<\/em>, and as Eine junge Frau<\/em> in Aus einem Totenhaus<\/em>. In the past season, she created the choreography for Der Traumg\u00f6rge<\/em> directed by Tilmann K\u00f6hler, and worked as choreographic assistant on the new staging of Le nozze di Figaro<\/em> and In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimpl\u00edn Belisa<\/em> directed by Dorothea Kirschbaum.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Hagar Bader<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Workshop & Work-in-progress by Allison Brown & Gal Fefferman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8021,"template":"","event-type":[],"event-location-city":[],"event-location-venue":[],"event-tags":[117,109],"class_list":["post-6777","nb_production","type-nb_production","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-tags-work-in-progress-en","event-tags-workshop-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nb_production\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nb_production"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nb_production"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"event-location-city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-location-city?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"event-location-venue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-location-venue?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"event-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}