Anger is beautiful
“Anger Management” is a celebration of the volcano inside each of us. Bright red and glistening, full of explosive force, fast and fearless — human beings are especially thrilling to watch when they’re glowing with anger.
Anger can be beautiful. Especially when it’s expressed through dance. Feeling takes form, control is relinquished, vast quantities of energy are released. From a choreographic standpoint, this is typically a recipe for exciting results. Indeed, in the last ten years the Joshua Monten Dance Company has specialized in working with just such volatile ingredients: capturing the wild and messy flow of emotionally charged movements and rearranging them into crystalline choreographic structures.
We all know how uncontrolled anger can rip in holes in the fabric of our social coexistence. Anger can sometimes lead to real violence, which we are all obliged to prevent. Still, it’s worth asking — should anger always be managed? Aren’t there some things worth fighting for, with tooth and nail?
With this production for four dancers we imagine what it would be like to give free reign to our wrath, to strip away the civilized manners and the fake smiles, to open the floodgates and see where the currents carry us. Many consequences are possible, including new forms of reconciliation, intimacy and empowerment. And catharsis, that sweet feeling of relief when the storm has passed.
“Anger Management” is the third part of the “Counterfeit” trilogy, which has been supported by a three-year production grant from Kultur Stadt Bern.
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CHOREOGRAPHY
Joshua Monten
DANCE
Paco Ladrón de Guevara
Hannah Thomas
Larissa de Villa
Jack Wignall
DRAMATURGY
Dr. Elizabeth Waterhouse
COSTUME DESIGN
Catherine Voeffray
LIGHT DESIGN
Mirjam Berger
SOUND DESIGN
Moritz Alfons
PROPS
Franziska Lüthi
STAGE COMBAT
Pascal Goffin
APRENTICES
Sophie Larson
Semina Rizou
PRODUCED BY
Tough Love
RESIDENCY
Dampfzentrale Bern
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE FINANCIAL SUPORT FROM THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS
Pro Helvetia
Kultur Stadt Bern
SWISSLOS / Kultur Kanton Bern
Burgergemeinde Bern
GVB Kulturstiftung
Migros Kulturstiftung
Gesellschaft zu Zimmerleuten
Parrotia-Stiftung
Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Landis & Gyr Stiftung
Oertli-Stiftung
Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung
PERFORMANCES
30 January 2025, 18:00 — Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)— try-out
13 February 2025, 10:00 — Grosse Halle, Bern (CH) — try-out/school performance
14 February 2025, 20:00 — Grosse Halle der Reitschule, Bern (CH) — premiere of indoor version
15 February 2025, 20:00 — Grosse Halle der Reitschule, Bern (CH)
16 February 2025, 18:00 — Grosse Halle der Reitschule, Bern (CH)
21 February 2025 19:30 — Phönix Theater, Steckborn (CH)
20 March 2025, 19:30— Dock 11 Berlin (D)
21 March 2025, 12:00 and 19:30— Dock 11 Berlin (D)
22 March 2025, 19:30— Dock 11 Berlin (D)
23 March 2025, 19:30— Dock 11 Berlin (D)
29 March 2025 20:00 — Theater am Gleis, Winterthur (CH)
8 May 2025, 13:00 — GIBB Schule, Bern (CH) — try-out/school performance
13 May 2025 — Mosaikschule Munzinger, Bern (CH) — try-out/school performance
17 May 2025, 15:45 — Progr, Das Tanzfest Bern (CH) — premiere of outdoor version
18 May 2025, 12:00 — Progr, Das Tanzfest Bern (CH)
June 2025 (4x) — OōEli Space, Hangzhou (CN)
February 2026 — Theater Hameln, Hameln (D)
