MS Schrittmacher

MS Schrittmacher was founded in Berlin in 1998 by the choreographer Martin Stiefermann. From the beginning, MS Schrittmacher saw itself as a pool of freelance and long-term group choreographers, dancers, composers as well as stage, costume and lighting designers. The pieces were shown between 10 and 30 times in Berlin. In addition to this there have been numerous guest performances, festival invitations and co-productions with other theaters.

This continuity in the work and the further development of forms and ideas were and are important aspects of the group’s identity. Over the last few years, the group and its broad spectrum of pieces received increased recognition and enthusiastic responses from audiences as well as the critics.

MS Schrittmacher’s idiosyncratic signature is created by dealing with daily life, sociological theory and questions about general social phenomena. The dance pieces are choreographic phenomenology, always in a tension with a city’s – and its inhabitants’ – daily lives. Thus the group is constantly searching for traces, and in past productions has told stories of the human and typical…

It’s not just the bodies that tell the story; the character of the performers is also essential. On a foundation of dance and performance qualities, Martin Stiefermann develops a language of movement for the stage that can vary from piece to piece, but is always characterized by a choreographic wittiness and grotesque humor.

Stiefermann and his dancers are moving storytellers (in both senses), because they don’t just convey their own stories; they make the audience their accomplices and demand that they accompany them on the search for the core of the piece – to re-discover stories and emotions. MS Schrittmacher’s pieces are a structure made of abstract movement and action sequences, traversed by motifs with strong images and concrete stories.

Stage designs are created parallel to the choreography, which is often developed via improvisation in the rehearsal process. The designs create spaces for the language of movement and moving images.

Source: The company MS Schrittmacher ‘s website

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