Ano von Dahom

“ANO VON DAHOM” An investigation of heritage.

„ANO von Dahom“ (one from home) ANO is a film performance and research project on the culture of the Danube Swabians (German speaking settlements along the lower regions of the Danube). The project will take place in an open/informal and participative frame. The project is a performative and documentary engagement with the social fabric, history and folk culture of the Danube Swabians, in the form of interviews, dance evenings and performances that constitute a contemporary artistic engagement with the traditional forms of movement. At the same time it is an investigation into the family history and identity of the artist who herself descends from refugees who fled the Banat region. The aim is to incorporate the local population and to open a possible reading of the traditional culture. Traditional forms of movement will be passed on, learned and understood due to the creation of a space of learning and exchange with witnesses of the displacement after WWII. It is at least as important to create an understanding of the social texture and the historical conditions that this culture was embedded in and to reflect it in relation to contemporary society. The dance evenings functioned as a place of exchange and were central to the social fabric. In this project they become a place of possible minoritarian narratives. Concomitantly the witnesses of the displacement will be interviewed and filmed. After the forced displacement during and after WWII, during which the Danube Swabians played a dark role in the holocaust of the Jewish people, the German speaking inhabitants of the Banat regions found themselves as foreigners in refugee camps in Germany and Austria. Places of historical importance will be researched and will in part be places where the project will be realised. ANO is a critical and current engagement with the conflictive history of the „returned“ Danube Swabians.

Konzept/ Choreographie: Silke Grabinger

Performance: Silke Grabinger, Gergely Dudas

Dramaturgische Beratung: Ludwig Felhofer

Produktionsleitung: Sandra Krampelhuber

Produktionsteam: Sandra Eidenberger, Adelina Nita

Musik: Interpret Unbekannt – „der Banater Unschuldswalzer“ Komponiert für „Ano“ von Nikolic Ljubomir/AnSe : -„differences“ Ivan Shopov – Deeper then the sea

Textbearbeitung: Silke Grabinger, Erwin Dorn, Waltraud Neuhauser-Pfeiffer, Emil Felhofer, Ludwig Felhofer

Mastering: Ivan Shopov

Licht: Jan Derschmidt

Kostüm/Bühnenbild: Bianca Fladerer, Silke Grabinger, Michael Eidenberger

Visuals: Magdalena Schlesinger, Silke Grabinger

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