Daniil Shchapov | Rika Yotsumoto

PENG! PENG! (8+)

Unfortunately, due to illness, the performances will have to be cancelled. We will try to find alternative dates. If you would like to invite the play to your school, please contact: tanzplan@kampnagel.de

The bouquet of flowers begins to wilt. Quickly swat the mosquito before it attaches its proboscis to your skin! Visit grandma’s gravestone on a Sunday. In many ways, we encounter death almost every day in our lives. Early or late, we experience the finite nature of life, the need to say goodbye, and the grief that comes with it. This feeling may feel strange and inexplicable, especially to children. What exactly am I feeling? How do I express it? Does it have color, shape, a weight? Can it perhaps speak or even clench its fists? Peng! Peng! is an interdisciplinary performance of dance and object theatre that explores the thematic complex of death in a playful, theatrical way and gives plasticity to these diverse feelings to make them something tangible, perhaps even measurable.

^{Concept and Staging: Rika Yotsumoto and Daniil Shchapov
Performance: Rika Yotsumoto and Daniil Shchapov
Costume and Stage: Melanie Kintzinger}

The starting time of the school performances will be co-ordinated according to the needs of the school.

Daniil Shchapov

Daniil Shchapov studied Contemporary Puppetry at the Ernst Busch Academy of Drama in Berlin from 2013 to 2016. He worked as a guest at the Theater an der Angel Magdeburg and the Puppentheater Magdeburg. In 2015 he was artist in residence in Queensland Brisbane as part of Robotranica. With his diploma production Requiem for a Pigeon he was invited to the 45th Fritz Wortelmann Prize of the city of Bochum. Since 2017 he has been part of the ensemble of the Puppet Theater of the tjg. theater junge generation. In Dresden, he has worked with Ania Michaelis, Nis Søgaard, Jos Van Kaan, and Ariel Doron, among others.

Rika Yotsumoto

grew up in Munich, Germany and studied contemporary dance at Reed College University. During her studies, Rika additionally trained at Gibney Dance Center NYC and Paris Summer Academy, among others. She danced for the Oriantheatre Dance Company (FR) under the direction of Mehdi Farajpour. Since completing her dance training, Rika Yotsumoto has been living in Dresden, Germany and working as a freelance dancer with companies including Staatsschauspiel Dresden, go plastic company and Polymer DMT/Fang Yun-Lo. Choreographic works include Land of Nod (2018), waves (2019, in collaboration with Tabea Wittulsky), and La maladie de porcelaine.