u n f i n i s h e d b u s i n e s s

by Hannah Krebs

What a life, Harris thought while looking down on his brown leather boots. These memories are endless and they are haunting me in the night. I am in a state of constant preparation, never arriving somewhere, it drives me mad. For who do I even do this neverending work for?

The dystopian modern tragedy u n f i n i s h e d b u s i n e s s is a rehearsal and account of the haunting ghost of masculinity in pop-culture. It lingers around a fragile state of sweat, discipline and longing. Are there any winners?

Credits

Dance, storytelling and choreography: Hannah Krebs

Music: Mandy Pixel (Suzanne Cleerdin)
Costume: Michael Sieweke
Set design and light: Beate Poikāne
Dramaturgy: Martin Sieweke
Mentoring: Anna Grip and Pontus Pettersson

The dance sequence in the performance exists out of following 6 phrases made in collaboration with the following dancers:

“Season for Seafood” with Stina Ehn
“Just you and the weather was gray” with Rebeckka Berchtold
“Heavy Egg cracks” with Ellen Söderhult
“Car Park Security” with Peter Mills
“Back in the Days we were Stars” with Vincent Jonsson
“Entangled Seasons” with Gergo D. Farkas

Special thanks to: All the phrase makers, without them the dance sequence wouldn’t exist! Mali Dönmez, Jennifer Lacey, Karin Hauptmann, Ingela Stefaniak, Chrysa Parkinson, Marie Fahlin, My class: Vilma, Gergo, Matilda, Linda, Ekin, Zak and Ira for the support and exchange

Biography

HANNAH KREBS (she/they) is a dance artist based in Stockholm. Their solos reveal an urgency for fractures, working with techniques of semi- fictional world buildings from a feminist and critical perspective. Within the craft of dance, Hannah is creating scenarios to insert and widen the cracks as a joint effort to help imagin a radically different world.
Their works have been presented at various festivals and venues such as Insert Female Artist Festival, OutNow Festival, Tanzhaus NRW and Weld (Stockholm). As a dancer they worked for Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Chikako Kaido, Ellen Söderhult and Judith Förster amongst others.