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Antonia Baehr: "Lachen" (2008 / 2009), performance. Video: Anne Quirynen

Antonia Baehr (Germany *1970)

Choregrapher Antonia Baehr works with scores. She examines the live element in theatre. As choregrapher, Actress and Dramatic Advisor she works with Valérie Castan, Lindy Annis, Antonija Livingstone, William Wheeler, Eszter Salamon and Vincent Dupont, amongst others. She is also the producer of horse-whisperer and dancer Werner Hirsch, musician and choreographer Henri Fleur and composer Henry Wilt.

Lachen
Performance

"How would I describe myself? Am I the person with brown hair? The one with style? The person with a mustache and a smoking pipe? No. I would describe myself as the person laughing. As the person who likes to laugh. Who is often seen laughing. Lachen (Laughing) is a performance about the act of laughing. Antonia Baehr studies laughing as a form of expression in its own right, independent of causes - jokes, stories, humor and joy – focusing on the act itself: the sound, the form, the music, the choreography, the rhythm and the gestures of laughing. It is not her intention to amuse us, but laughter is contagious!"

Antonia Baehr: "Lachen" (2008 / 2009) in the Conference & Performance Programme.
Photograph: Jan Stradtmann