Patricia Carolin Mai

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Patricia Carolin Mai had actually finished her research of many years about bodies in extreme states.

After HAMONIM, with 70 people on stage, and KONTROL, which took the bare path of the solo, this time the Hamburg choreographer's gaze was to be directed to the cultural attributions and inscriptions of human bodies.

To explore the history of exposed bodies Patricia Carolin Mai and her team chose the Museum MARKK - Kulturen und Künste der Welt rather than the stages at Kampnagel. Because when Patrica Carolin Mai is not dancing herself, her artistic interest is directed at dancing people who are not active in the performing arts and therefore bring in other questions to bodily mechanisms of representation.

MANIA was supposed to be a group piece with 17 people of all ages from Hamburg: they are still 17, but no longer a group. They are 17 of very many withdrawn bodies, who direct their gaze to themselves, no trace of exposed bodies anymore. What remains of a human body when it no longer relates to others, no longer moves with them, no longer exposes itself to them? Bodies in extreme states have not been explored to the end, and in Patrica Carolin Mai's new work MANIA, 17 isolated, filmed bodies recall the access and circumstances of past crowds.

The MANIA film will be on display in the MARKK's interstitial space when it reopens.

^{Dance and co-creation: Andrea Sander, Charlotte Höflich, Christina Rohde, Cina Bockstahler, David Mauer, Dorothea Derksen, Evelina Dineva, Katharina Stier, Kora Hamm, Lisa Dilger, Louise Biehl, Melanie Schorsch, Nadine Kribbe, Norbert Dorow, Ronja Lüdemann, Sina Luig & Susanne Wehowsky}

^{Artistic direction, concept, choreography: Patricia Carolin Mai
Videographic conception, DoP: David Czinczoll
Editing: Daniel Takla Zehrfeld
Chreographic collaboration: Lotta Janina Timm
Dramaturgy: Anne Kersting, Kirsten Bremehr
Costume: Felina Levits, Hanna Scherwinski
Musical concept and composition: Fanis Gioles
Assistance sound: Tam Pham
Mediation and production aesthetics: Kirsten Bremehr
Scientific consulting and communication: Britta Lübke
Artistis and technical project design: Julika Schlegel
Videographic consulting, camera assistance: Julika Schlegel
Lighting design consulting: Jana Köster
Video mapping and set support: Christopher Dippert
Photography and set support: Hanna Naske
Graphic: Si-Ying Fung
Production and press: Stückliesel}

^{Special thanks to the whole K3-Team, the team from MARKK, Kampnagel Hamburg, Marian Regdosz, Holger Duwe, Sirwan Ali, Jiv Wagner, Rolf Schwarz, André Huppertz-Teja, EU-Dance-Research-Project Empowering Dance.} 

If you'd like to know more about MANIA, you can find here the podcast MARKKinMotion with Patricia Carolin Mai and Gabriel Schimmeroth:

Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai produces stage pieces as a dancer and choreographer with production locations at Kampnagel and at K3 - Hamburg, at LOFFT - DAS THEATER Leipzig and at Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr. The focus of her choreographic work is the investigation of the body as a central repository of memories. 2016 - 2019 she developed her trilogy on "bodies in extreme states" with the pieces Ready to Snap (2016), Balagan Body (2018) & HAMONIM (2019). In summer 2019, she accepted Ninety9 Art Company's invitation to Seoul in Korea to work in GAL-GAL on women's self-empowerment in Korean society. For this work she was awarded the "International Choregraphy Award Goyang 2020". In 2020, she explored the limits of her physical performance in the 12-month solo self-experiment KONTROL, questioning cultural normalisations of body and gender. She choreographed ASTERISM (2021) and ANIMA (2022) by multimedia composer Alexander Schubert, as well as the group piece OR (2022) for the Company of the Leipzig Dance Theatre. For the years 2020 - 2023 Patricia Carolin Mai has received conceptual funding from the City of Hamburg and continues with WAHN, UND SO KAMEN WIR ZUSAMMEN and RAUSCH. Eine Revision (AT), she continues her work on the theme of "Practices of Community". In 2023, together with 100 participants and in co-production with Kampnagel and K3, she will venture a look at the history of Tanzwut and complete the trilogy.

^{(Status: 2023)}

http://www.patricia-carolin-mai.de/