The Nature of Us (2019)

In their duets “YEW” and “YEW: outside” Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger immersed them-selves deeply in Nature and its inherent intelligence. For the third part of their cycle they have invited both plant allies as well as five human performers as well as a sound and light gardener and finally the audience to a post-human group choreography “The Nature of Us.” The heterogeneous

ensemble on the stage of HAU 2 creates a soilless garden with multiple voices to emerge from sounds and bodies. “The Nature of Us” invites its audience, human and otherwise, into this ecosystem – and searches for a consciousness that neither suppresses nor exaggerates nature, instead making space for a co-creative polyphony. How can we come together to be the garden that we actually are? In the more than 10-year history of their collaboration, “The Nature of Us” is the first ensemble piece by the choreographer duo Schubot & Gradinger.

With the aim of initiating a change in collective consciousness, the new choreography by Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot in conjunction with five human and ten plant performers is a sensitive plea for the dissolution of the human-nature dichotomy.

Concept & choreografie: Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger in collaboration with Nature

With and by Comfrey, Andreea David, Fern, Geranium, Golden Rod, Jared Gradinger, Chestnut, Clover, Lav-ender, Roberto Martínez, Moss, Andrius Mulokas, Liz Rosenfeld, Datura, Anouk Thériault, White Sage, Rosehip, Birch and other

Lightgarden: Annegret Schalke

Soundgarden: Stefan Rusconi

Costume: Claudia Hill

costume assistant: Diane Esnault, Emilia Patrignani

space assistant: Jonas Droste

artistic collaboration: Sigal Zouk

coaching: Shannon Cooney

assistant: Sofia Fantuzzi

photo: Rachel de Joode

press and production: björn & björn

Produced by Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger. Co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Ponderosa and Nature. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Premiere HAU2 Hebbel am Ufer February 28th-March 3rd 2019