Künstlerische Leitung, Texte, Musik Kostüme Lars Paschke komponiert und produziert von Technische Leitung Sebastian Bauer Projektmanagement das Schaufenster Choreografische Rahmung Ian Kaler Produktion Planningtorock & Ian Kaler Performance Freddy Houndekindo, Ian Kaler, Ambrita Sunshine Koproduktion Schauspiel Leipzig, Musik performed von Planningtorock ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Musikalische Begleitung Simonne Jones Festival, HELLERAU – Europäisches Ton Lola Tseytlin Zentrum der Künste (Dresden), Münchner Visuals Imogen Heath Kammerspiele Lichtdesign Sebastian Bauer, Sylvie Garot Bühne Zuzanna Czebatul Unterstützt von Hauptstadtkulturfonds , Skulptur Nadine Karl Wien Kultur

PLANNINGTOROCK bei ImPulsTanz

Performances 2015 Ian Kaler o.T. | (gateways to movement) 2019 Planningtorock (Music, Performer) Powerhouse

Ian Kaler Workshops o.T. | (RAW PRACTICE) (Music, Performer) 2019 Shared Practice

IAN KALER bei ImPulsTanz

Performances 2015 o.T. | (gateways to movement) 2017 LIVFE (Choreographer, Performer) (Choroegrapher, Performer) Planningtorock 2016 Me becoming myself (unfinished) 2014 Contingencies (Choreographer, Performer) (Choreographer, Performer) Germany / United Kingdom Ian Kaler & Anne Quirynen 2012 Insignificant Others On Orientations | Shifting the burden (learning to look sideways) (Choreographer, Performer) (Choreographer, Performer) Powerhouse

Bild am Cover: © Goodyn Green Vienna International Dance Festival IAN KALER Eszter Salamon, Sharon Fridman, and Heiner Planningtorock (DE/UK) Goebbels. Together with his partner Anouk studied Transmedial Arts in Vienna and Orignac he founded the dance collectif Powerhouse graduated from HZT Berlin. Since 2010, he Agbaza’s. Since 2018 has been a member of has been developing choreographic series Cullberg in Stockholm where he worked for that are accompanied by (visual) media works the first time with Ian Kaler. 02. August 2019 22:00 and in exchange with different artists. Since 2015, Ian Kaler has been working on the IMOGEN HEATH MuseumsQuartier – Halle E choreographic series o.T. in collaboration with Planningtorock. LIVFE, in which is an artist, filmmaker and cinematographer Österreichische Erstaufführung choreography and dance are combined based in Berlin. Imogen engages in image- with spoken-word texts, theatre, live music making as a tool to engage with the body, (rRoxymore) and live video (Imogen Heath) with desire, with femme identity, femininity Powerhouse is a musical show about love, working-class kid (Planningtorock themselves) was first performed during ImPulsTanz 2017. and gender. . The body in her work becomes healing, queerness, gender identities and who hustled their way into a full-time music ON THE CUSP, Kaler’s first choreographic a site to explore alternative and precarious survival, about those powerful, personal career and found their authentic self along piece for 16 dancers of the Cullbergbaletten, states of belonging, of histories, of community moments of transition that music affords us – the way. Powerhouse is a empowering premiered in 2019. and found family. Imogen‘s short filmSexual be it the autistic raver (Planningtorock’s sister) dance concert, self-reflexive, intimate, Chemistry has screened a. o. at MIXFest NYC, who found liberation through House music, and emotionally charged with lush radical AMBRITA SUNSHINE Touch at nGbK Berlin, Fringe Festival . the dedicated mother (Planningtorock’s vulnerability. Imogen’s practice is embedded in self- mum) who used music as an armour, or the is an artist and performer, active in the Queer organised art-making cultures. Imogen was scene both in Italy and elsewhere. Trained in short-listed at the Camerimage International a multidisciplinary way, she has her roots in Cinematography Festival 2015 in the debut dance and choreography as well as BDSM, Cinematography Award. sexual energy awakening practices, use of PLANNNINGTOROCK W, Planningtorock’s critically acclaimed sound and voice. In recent years she has SIMONNE JONES 2011 debut on DFA, revealed a visionary dedicated herself to a research about the aka Jam Rostron – is a Bolton-born Berlin- and politicised producer. It offered up deeply use of movement in Africa, specifically in is a producer and musician. Simonne’s story based singer- song writer, composer, producer queered art-pop – 2014’ s All Love’s Legal ritual dances. She graduated at the DAMS of includes transformative journeys exploring and director with four critically acclaimed released on Rostron‘s own imprint Human Bologna. In 2014 she obtained a specialisation health and culture in the jungles of Africa studio albums of left-field dance to their Level with banner-ready slogans (‘Patriarchy as a theatrical choreographer and in 2017 she and Brazil, powerful moments conducting name – not to mention various collaborations, Over And Out’, ‘Let’s Talk About Gender completed her second post-graduate Master HIV research in state of the art labs, and Opera‘s, film scores and remixes. A self- Baby’), revealed their ability to combine pop- in Traditional and Ritual Dances in Abidjan, being locked in Peaches’ studio among taught, non-binary, genderqueer musician, oriented music with a political message. Ivory Coast. She is currently carrying her various dildos and synthesizers. Her Cherokee they’ve spent a decade plus queering sound Plannintorock‘s new album Powerhouse is project The body of women around Italy and and Caribbean heritage only enriches her and vision as Planningtorock. their most personal record yet: emotionally- abroad. perspective. After migrating from LA to Planningtorock debuted in the Noughties charged, biographical anthems drawn from Berlin, she wove together the various threads with 2006’s Have It All [Chicks On speed], Rostron’s lived experiences as a non-binary FREDDY HOUNDEKINDO of her life into an ethereally beautiful music finding artistic community among fellow genderqueer artist, experiences around family, lattice. Simonne’s singular musicality DIY outliers and gender outlaws such identity and music itself. Recorded across French born, Freddy Houndekindo’s artistic embraces , pop, the avant- as Peaches and The Knife. Their sound Berlin, London, New York and Los Angeles, practice started in the street with Urban garde, classical, new wave, industrial, and alt- – tense, spellbinding dance music with Powerhouse is a celebration of liberation, Dances. He graduated from the Conservatoire rock. Simonne’s compositions exhibit a dark classical flourishes, unexpected brass and a groove-filled record that sees Rostron National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de beauty with imaginative arrangements, daring pitched-down vocals that have become consolidating power both personal and artistic Lyon and studied at the Folkwang Universität electronic soundscapes, majestic hooks, and Planningotorock‘s signature have earned into queer pop. der Künste in Essen. He has worked with lyrics that brim with poetic poignancy and them a dedicated following. artists including Malou Airaudo, Samir Akika, metaphorical enlightenment.