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Lucia Matzke – Project

Ich will Meer – I want the sea / more 

© Lucia Matzke

Dancing theatre project “Ich will Meer”, initiated by “Seitenwechsel e. V.”, supported by CHANCEtanz

The aim of the project was to link up ten- to fourteen-year-old girls from three different youth centres and impart dancing, drama and stage presence. On a number of workshop weekends, the girls intensively learnt dancing and developed a theatre performance of their own on a rehearsal trip to the Baltic Sea. Although the overarching topic “Ich will Meer” (I want the sea/more) had been fixed, the contents of the individual scenes came from the girls themselves. We, the dancing instructors and choreographers, looked at the topics girls are concerned with, such as mobbing at school. Finally, the 30-minute performance was presented to the parents, friends and relatives on a proper stage.

What have you taken home from this project for your artistic activities?

Dancing offers a multifaceted range of options for personal expression. This project showed me how all the participants could develop new abilities in their own way, both with regard to dancing and personally, which resulted in more self-confidence. Especially in hip-hop and in crump, there is enough space, so that people can all find their own environment. Such projects give people access to dancing as a tool for individual expression which they would otherwise not be able to afford.