premier dance theatre
stasiland
(2025)
STASILAND is a dance-theatre piece set in the shredded document ruins of East Germany. As we delve into a world of total surveillance where anxiety is the regime, poignant stories of connection and loss are revealed.
Through a series of choreographed vignettes audiences are immersed in the stories of East Germans living under the eye of the Stasi and their informants. Follow our characters as they discover, through the reconstruction of documents left in the wake of the former police state, the secrets of their own lives. While audiences begin as the surveillant, watching these stories unfold, they may soon get the sense that they too are being watched.
Inspired by the book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder & designed in the round for audiences in Galleries, Libraries & Theatres.
STASILAND is a dance-theatre work that utilises live music, dance, costume and set design to tell its multiple but interconnected stories.
CREDITS
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Choreography: Olivia Wallis Jackson (she/her) & Dancers
Music: Joana Ly (she/her)
Dancers: Jonah Wigley (he/him), Kai Harvey (he/him), Mandy Tan (she/her)
Costume: Synne Lundesgaard (she/they)
Dramaturgy: Bailey Dowler (he/him)
Marketing - Photography, Videography: Grace Richardson (she/her), Georgia Aiken (she/her)
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Arts Council England, Luke Brown Company, Thrive (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance), University of Chichester Dance Department, Ugly Duck London & our generous donors.
“I WAS AMAZED BY THE QUALITY OF THE WORK”
“THE DANCERS MOVE WITH REAL INTENT AND INTEGRITY”
“LOVED THE PAPER - IT REPRESENTED THE FATALITY OF THEIR EXISTENCE“