Performance . Revival by Ana Lessing Menjibar in the frame of Tanznacht Berlin 2025: Vocal Affairs
”She is the daughter of two creatures that fought against silence. Against the silence that keeps the feelings inside like intestines. Against the silence that mutes the dead. But the womb is still fertile from which that silence crawled…“
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Third Skin
The performance “Third Skin” by German-Spanish choreographer Ana Lessing Menjibar is a poetic reaction to the opening up of her family history. It deals with experiences of war, fascism and political resistance across three generations.
Together with her team, Lessing Menjibar creates the fiction of a chimera in constant metamorphosis between resistance and porosity. In her transdisciplinary practice, the (physical) knowledge of flamenco is interwoven with contemporary dance, visual art and electronic music to create an energetic cosmos of body, sound, rhythm, language and sculptural objects.
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Artistic Direction, Choreography, Performance, Text and Stage: Ana Lessing Menjibar
Dramaturgy, Research and Text: Isabel Gatzke
Composition: Ana Lessing Menjibar, Philipp Kullen, Nikola Pieper
Drums, Synths and Sounddesign: Philipp Kullen, Nikola Pieper
Costume: Gesine Försterling, Mantón sculptures, Ana Rajcevic
Light Design: Elliott Cennetoglu, Joseph Wegmann
Technical Management and Light Supervisor: Emilio Cordero Checa
Outside Eye: Alberto Cortés, Lina Gómez
Voice Coaching: Juan Cárdenas
Production Management: Saskia Schoenmaker
Artistic Production: Sofie Luckhardt
A production by Ana Lessing Menjibar in co-production with tanzhaus nrw, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by the Goethe-Institut Madrid and produced with the financial support of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. The previous research project “GROWING Third Skin” was supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Ana Lessing Menjibar (she/her) is a German-Spanish performer, dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist from Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work combines body with sound, multimedia and sculptural elements as an extended choreographic practice and experiments with the transformative potential of flamenco in the context of performance and contemporary dance. Ana Lessing Menjibar studied Visual Communication at the UdK-Berlin and the Performance Research Master SODA at the HZT-Berlin.
Dramaturgy, Research and Text: Isabel Gatzke
Composition: Ana Lessing Menjibar, Philipp Kullen, Nikola Pieper
Drums, Synths and Sounddesign: Philipp Kullen, Nikola Pieper
Costume: Gesine Försterling, Mantón sculptures, Ana Rajcevic
Light Design: Elliott Cennetoglu, Joseph Wegmann
Technical Management and Light Supervisor: Emilio Cordero Checa
Outside Eye: Alberto Cortés, Lina Gómez
Voice Coaching: Juan Cárdenas
Production Management: Saskia Schoenmaker
Artistic Production: Sofie Luckhardt
A production by Ana Lessing Menjibar in co-production with tanzhaus nrw, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by the Goethe-Institut Madrid and produced with the financial support of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. The previous research project “GROWING Third Skin” was supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Ana Lessing Menjibar (she/her) is a German-Spanish performer, dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist from Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work combines body with sound, multimedia and sculptural elements as an extended choreographic practice and experiments with the transformative potential of flamenco in the context of performance and contemporary dance. Ana Lessing Menjibar studied Visual Communication at the UdK-Berlin and the Performance Research Master SODA at the HZT-Berlin.
Dates
September 2025
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