BLAUHAUCH
Dream. Dream Big. Dream Radically.
About Us
“A turbulent creative journey into the world of Dreams”
BLAUHAUCH is an international, multidisciplinary, all-female theatre company based in Berlin, inspired by dreamwork. Comprising nine international performers, from classical theatre, dance, writing and circus we collaborate to create original stage plays. Blauhauch’s unique approach to storytelling combines immersive and sensory experiences with classical storytelling, magical realism and movement theatre.
Everything between dream and reality is what inspires our work.
With humor we let our intuition explore our individual and collective truth as women. Our artistic approach celebrates the irrational, by combining theatre and spiritual practices like lucid dreaming and bringing the depth of the subconscious into the material. By exploring gender dynamics and the potential of remodeling our understanding of the feminine and masculine principles, we celebrate the differences we have as human beings.
We also offer self-empowering artistic workshops on dreamwork, creative writing and performance with the intention of empowering and finding the creative voice and truth in this world.
In November 2017 nine women came together in an artistic residency in Gran Canaria to write and develop a play based on dreams. Led by dream therapist and author Marion Bott we interwoven nine dreams to create a story. During 2018 we kept on developing the story and our method of work, in autumn we had a sold out run with ‘What Silence has to say’ at Theater Unterm Dach Berlin.
Blauhauch’s primary working language is English. In our company, we also speak fluent
German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swiss German. All of the Blauhauch creative members are established throughout Europe in their artistic fields.
“Blue is the invisible becoming visible. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond the dimensions of which other colors partake.” Yves Klein
Blauhauch means blue breath.
Who am I when I am not what others dream me to be?
Working with dreams
Dreamwork demystifies our dreams by creatively placing the scenarios into reality.
Dreams server as source content for our plays, our artistic approach celebrates
the irrational. Our development process relies heavily on techniques like intuitive writing,
improvisation, dream circles, radical honesty, meditation and various collaborative
leadership practices. Using also aerial circus, Butoh, contemporary dance and curated light and sound design, we take audiences on an immersive and sensory journey filled with humor, shameless storytelling and surreal interactions.
Via an intuitive writing process and by physically reenacting the scene and giving all
characters a voice, the subconscious meanings and intentions of our dreams are
revealed to us. A deeper understanding of the dream emerges and insights seem to
hit an awakened state in our brains.
Once on the page we examine closer the relation between the characters and common themes in all the different unique dreams we have experienced.
As a starting point to manifest both our night and day dreams onto paper and the
stage, we always ask ourselves, "What is the feeling that this symbol wants to
express and how does it translate into reality?"
Because our dreams serve as source content for our plays, our process is inherently
intimate and vulnerable. Trust, therefore, is at the center of our creative process.
Focusing on individual empowerment and new leadership models, we collectively
strive to unlearn the structures in which we were raised. For example, using a
technique called “radical honesty” Blauhauch members are encouraged to express
out-loud thought, feelings and ideas. Speaking truth releases pressure, reinforces our
professional and personal bond, and fosters creative freedom. Using this effective method,
we have both grown as individuals and artists.
WHAT WE OFFER
Show / Workshops / Events
What Silence Has To Say…
A new devised play created by Blauhauch Productions ltd.
What does Silence have to say? What is it that we want to say when we are unable to speak?
What is our subconscious screaming at us when we feel like something is going on and can't say what it is?
We thought the best answer is to be found in our dreams. So we dreamt.
This co-written play based on dreams explores the different facets of female sexuality from abuse to ecstasy. There is the daytime and the dreamworld, two realities, where both are interwoven with each other. What happens in the daytime is reflected in the surreal nightdream and each character has their equivalent and speaks out for themselves and for Silence. At the end of the play we enter another world, the lucid dream, where choices can be made consciously.
Through intuitive writing, dream circles, improvisation and research we made nine dreams into one which tells the story of Silence.
What Silence Has To Say dances in between the absurd, the dream and the reality. Silence asks you to relax and let your critical mind quieten, in order for your inner creator to come alive and remember to lead you into what really matters. Expect an evening of colorful and shameless feminine performance.
Jill, an overworked mother and businesswoman in her forties falls asleep and dreams that she is a man who desperately wants to be a woman. She can't speak in her dream and is baptized Silence. Also in reality, Jill doesn't know anymore what it means to be a woman. Too many tasks, too many expectations, an alcoholic husband and finally a burnout. In her dream she has wondrous encounters with 100 chained tigers, a feather, a murderess, a 33km long horse ballet who all seem vaguely familiar.
There's the Patrona of the local cabaret, a fighter, always trying to make everybody laugh with all her force; Iceabella, the beauty, everybody's in love, who closed her heart not knowing how to handle the attention; Ben Ame, a charming French man, who's crippled by not being loved; the Psychiatrist, who loves money and prescribing pills; Tyron, who drowns his anger in alcohol and Heather a 14 years old girl just turning into a woman. Then there is Green, the Internet and the connection between the dream and the conscious world.
On the search for her voice Jill goes through a transformation.
A small town, a quirky community, where everyone needs everyone, a microcosme. The characters all seem to run in their self made hamster wheel, wanting so much from themselves and from others but having no idea how to get there.
At night, Jill encounters all the dream symbols that literally rob her of her voice. Silence becomes what everybody is afraid of, the mirror of all shadows we carry within ourselves. The answer lies in the Silence when silence starts to speak.
The play starts with a dream meditation led by Marion Bott, which let's the audience take the perspective of the other gender and watch the show from this new point of view. We close the evening with a sharing circle where impressions and feelings can be shared by the audience and the actors.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/311114229
Questions about femininity and masculinity are stroking all structures and crushing what no longer serves the empowerment of humanhood.
#Times up and #Metoo made it clear that change is necessary. But if we don't want to be what we have been so far, what do we want to be?
Our performances in Berlin have shown us how important this frame is.
The work we do has revealed itself as essential, at this time, as it bridges the creative, the spiritual and the artistic expression of our personal developments as women.
Not only we are facing our deepest fears and desires by meeting with our subconscious but also we are transforming it into art. This process is one of empowerment for each individual artist present in the group but also for every member that comes into contact with our work.
How wonderful would it be if every individual on earth discovered that it is safe to transform past traumas into art, that it is valued to be radically honest, and that it is praised to share experiences with the world creating an authentic bond for the community.
The play has a length of 1 hour and 35 minutes including a meditation at the beginning and is written for 4 (four) actresses.
Dream. Dream big. Dream radically.
More information please contact us.
WORKSHOPS
THE ARTISTS
MARION BOTT
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
2012 Theaterakademie Mannheim
2014 University of Essex, Master of Arts
2016 Filmuniversität Potsdam, MA Screenwriting /dramaturgy
2018 Certified Dream Therapist and Coach
As a writer she had sponsored residencies for VOX TV in Germany, as well as in Kitzbühel and Marseille.
Her plays 'Cyberlove' and 'Moormaid, funded by Arts Council England, got published and shown at Stadttheater Ingolstadt and Arcola Theatre London.
As an actress she worked at Theater Darmstadt, the Globe London, the Cockpit Theatre London a.o. as well as in 'Tatort' and 'Sandstern' by Yilmaz Arslan. She works internationally in four languages.
In 2017, she founded Blauhauch, a female multidisciplinary theatre company working with dreams. The main focus of her work is to expose taboos, empower people to remove their masks and speak their truth fearlessly.
From France/Germany.