25 + 26 apr 2019 Vivadança Festival Salvador, Brasilien – Work In Progress Showing
9 + 10 jun 2019 Sommerblut Festival Köln
11 + 13 jul 2019 asphalt Festival Düsseldorf
31 aug + 4 sep 2024 BJR Studio – MEDO – The Ritual – Re-Creation during internationale tanzmesse nrw
20 sep 2024 Corporacion Atabaques, Cartagena, Kolumbien – MEDO/ANGST – The Ritual (Re-Creation 2024)
26 + 27 sep 2024 Centro Nacional de las Artes, Bogotá, Colombia – MEDO/ANGST – The Ritual (Re-Creation 2024) 

Against the backdrop of Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 election to government in Brazil, MEDO/ANGST was created as a reaction with the tools that art has at its disposal, as an attempt of a performative answer to a right-wing populist policy that deprecates or even persecutes minorities.
The vicious circle of fear remains terrifyingly virulent in the post-pandemic era, too, and MEDO/ANGST therefore also remains highly topical, for the fear of the other is amounting phenomenon of our times. Instilling and stoking this fear is the preferred instrument of power employed by the New Right – in Germany as well as in more and more nations across the globe. Simultaneously, fear is growing among the groups and individuals who are marked out as non-conforming, they dread reprisal, or even have to endure it already on a daily basis: Fear impregnates and gives birth to itself in an apparently infinite cycle.

MEDO/ANGST is an exploration of possible paths to tread in confronting these social and political charges: In the sense of self- and third-party questioning, of juxtapositioning, and of – if you will – a search for lost freedom in art. With an ensemble of Brazilian and German dancers as well as well-known Brazilian LGBTQ+ activists, we embark on a quest for a commonly shared idea of identity – not dependent on locale, time, culture, nor religion.

More: Summer School MEDO/ANGST Workshops, talks, perspectives and performances with the team of MEDO/ANGST and guests in the framework of the Weltkunstzimmer summerschool 2019.
More info here.

Concept/Choreography/Performance: Sauane Costa, Sebastião Abreu, Thor Galileo Asé, Wendel Lima, Tyshea Suggs e Aaron Samuel Davis
Concept/Choreography: Ben J. Riepe
Artistic Assistance: Gwen Wieczorek
Stage Design: Ben J. Riepe, Gwen Wieczorek
Lighting Design: Luiz Guimarães, Ben J. Riepe
Costume Design: Thiago Romero & Tina Melo e Lucas Montty, Ben J. Riepe, Gwen Wieczorek
Soundtrack: João Millet Meirrelles
Choreographic Assistance: Daniel Ernesto Müller
Vocal Coach: Carolina Rüegg
Technical Director: Philipp Zander
Project Manager: Baobá Producões Artisticas, Till Freese, Dina ed Dik, Jessica Prestipino
Coordination: Izaskun Abrego
PR: Nassrah-Alexia Denif
Photos: Edgar Azevedo, Alexander Basile, Ursula Kaufmann

Production: Ben J. Riepe, Goethe Institut, Baobá Produções, Centro Cultural Plataforma, Coproduction: Asphalt Festival // Collaborators: Sommerblut Festival Cologne, Weltkunstzimmer Dusseldorf.
Financed by: Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Goethe Institut, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. Medo/Angst is financed by Germany’s Federal Foreign Office.

MEDO/ANGST – The Ritual
Recreation 2024

Devised by: Ben J. Riepe
Concept/Choreography: Sebastião Abreu, Sauane Costa, Aaron Samuel Davis, Thor Galileo Asé,
Wendel Lima, Ben J. Riepe, Tyshea Suggs
Performance: Sebastião Abreu, Maria Bunita, Sauane Costa, Aaron Samuel Davis, Darwin Diaz, Thor Galileo Axé, Igor Meneses Sousa (Andras), Tyshea Suggs
Choreographic Assistance: Darwin Diaz
Stage: Ben J. Riepe, Gwen Wieczorek
Costumes: Tina Melo, Thiago Romero, Lucas Montty (Afrobapho), Ben J. Riepe, Gwen Wieczorek
Light Design: Luiz Guimarães, Ben J. Riepe
Sound: João Milet Meirelles
Voice Coaching: Rolf A. Scheider
Technical Direction: Julius Kindermann
Project Management: Jessica Prestipino
Coordination: Izaskun Abrego
Management/Communication: Nassrah-Alexia Denif
Social Media: Lisa-Carolin Schubert
Photos: Alexander Basile
Outside Eye/Dramaturgy Re-Creation 2024: Khadidiatou Rachel Bangoura, Felizitas Stilleke

The Re-Creation (2024) of MEDO/ANGST is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Cultural Department of the City of Düsseldorf.

The guest performances in Colombia of the Re-Creation (2024) of MEDO/ANGST are supported by the Goethe-Institut, the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Cultural Department of the City of Düsseldorf.