Behind the gardens
A Collaborative Performance by Isabelle Schad with Tanzinitiative Hamburg and 30 performers at Hamburg Oberhafen
Hamburg, 2013
A piece of untamed wild growth in the city that has being claimed back by nature is turned into a site specific stage: The Hamburg Dance Initiative places its new project amidst abandoned railway tracks at the Oberhafen – an area next to the Harbor City – which is undergoing massive changes through urban development. Bringing together a large group of performers from Hamburg, choreographer Isabelle Schad and a team consisting of a landscape architect, a photographer and a sound artist will create and enact this temporary outdoor stage. We sympathize with the individual as part of the collective, with the group as a moving organism, with the wasteland as an undefined zone, with choreography as urban Landart.
