Heromatik
Premiere: 3.4. HAU 2 Berlin
Choreography, Dance, concept: Thomas Lehmen
Artistic Collaboration: Lucia Glass
Stage Design: Lucia Glass, Thomas Lehmen
Technical Director: Götz Dihlmann
Production: Thomas Lehmen
Assistence of Production: Maria Ochs
Supported by the Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin,
and the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
Coproduction:
Pact-Zollverein Essen
Dance4Uk-Nottdance, Nottingham
Like the hero in all good ald hero-stories from all over the world,
the artist is working with similar elements. One has to make a journey,
has to go over borders, is tested, meets a medium, enters a space where
one is not really familiar with, experiences life and death and
wonders. He sees things, people, or himself changing into something
else.
Based on this mechanisms, Thomas Lehmen studies the analogy between the
root of the hero-topic and the work of an artist, who is also operating
in known and unknown areas and is still dealing with undefined
correlations.
Specially to prepare and enter a space which is still unknown, but
making it useable, seems to be a comparable metaphor for the work of an
artist. His work is operating in an area one does not really know jet
how to move in, but when ready, it is necessary for people to understand
and live in the world.