Das Blaue is a creation that Ann made as guest choreographer for the dance ensemble of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Oldenburg (DE). Das Blaue is inspired by an ice hotel and is situated in a hotel lobby. It is a meeting place for people, mostly impersonal, which can give an uncomfortable feeling. One does not know where the encounters start or end. In this cold room the dancers circulate individually in their own time pattern, with their own memories of experienced situations that come up and fade away again. One sees 11 individuals passing each other, alone with a yearning for contact and eventually warmth.

The music composition was elaborated by Arne Van Dongen and is built around the song The Slow Drug by PJ Harvey. In this performance live sounds are integrated into the music composition.

choreography Ann Van den Broek
original cast Felix Berner, Pin-Chieh Chen, Alessandra Corti, Miquel G. Font, Ruben Albelda Giner, Rober Gomez, Gili Goverman, Vivienne Hötger, Cordelia Lange, Marin Lemic, Antonia Zagel
music composition Arne Van Dongen
set design Brix Quellmalz
light design Philipp Wiechert
assistant choreographer Jan Deboom
photography Andreas J. Etter
premiere December 16, 2012, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburg (DE)

Das Blaue is a co-production by the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater (DE) and WArd/waRD (NL/BE).

WArd/waRD

Date	City	Venue
28 Feb 2013	Das Blaue	Bremen (DE), Theater Bremen
21 Feb 2013	Das Blaue	Bremen (DE), Theater Bremen
06 Feb 2013	Das Blaue	Bremen (DE), Theater Bremen
14 Jan 2013	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
12 Jan 2013	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
05 Jan 2013	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
03 Jan 2013	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
22 Dec 2012	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
19 Dec 2012	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
16 Dec 2012	Das Blaue	Oldenburg (DE), Oldenburgisches Staatstheater – première