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).