MEDIATHEK

The point of departure of this creation the situation of homeless, of people living in the streets, in shelters and vacancies. In four research phases Angela Guerreiro made journeys into different communities of homeless together with photographer Bettina Clasen.

This project was created from the necessity of caring, and through expression, articulating a personal way of resistance towards conventionalised rules and regulations. Not as a socio-political statement, a representation or biography of the people one comes to meet and care for, but as a statement of personal opinion and care for oneself.

Through Angela Guerreiro’s signature movement language, distinct composition and personal anecdotes, four dancers confront the audience with an ethically complicated problem. It is movement created in a collaborative process where the dancers themselves have to fill a landscape of possibilities with their care for the self.

"Be Nice or Leave, Thank You." is an encounter with reality, a dance on the margins of the stage, closing up to the city, to the map of the other, the silenced. The choreography is a search for an indispensable action where every aspect is undeniable, for a movement that can not be substituted but has acquired identity, body, in itself.

Premiered at the „Körperstimmen“, from 24th until 26th of April 1998 at the Podewil, TanzWerkstatt Berlin.

Artistic Direction / Choreography: Angela Guerreiro

Created & performed with: Aloisio Avaz, Fiona Gordon, Cristina Moura, Marc Rees

Dramaturgy: Mårten Spångberg

Music: Nicolas Roseeuw

Set Design: Claudia Rüll

Light: Sérgio Pessanha

Costume: Sofia Kreth d’Orey

Research / Photography: Bettina Clasen

Producer: DepArtment | Katharina von Wilcke

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