POGOensemble   (Cologne/Germany)
Contemporary Dance Theatre

The POGOensemble (Dilan Ercenk, Denise Temme, Tessa Temme) was founded in 2001. Originally, the three choreographers/performers graduated from the study course 'Creativity' of the German Sport University Cologne. The company has won many prizes working with a special movement language without using traditional school techniques.                                                                                                                                                                          

"Young Choreographer to watch"                                           Ballettanz International /Year Book 2007, international critic poll 2007  poll                                                                                     "Best Young Choreographer"                                                     Theater Pur /Yearbook 2008, critic poll 2008  20008                                                                                                                            Repertory:

• "HENRY"
• "Ja Ja der Jodok"
• "3PS"

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"Henry"

In an associative way the POGOensemble deals with the creature horse. 
A specially designed room concept which orientates on the “hoofbeat figures“ (the moving patterns of horse and horseman in the riding arena) is central point of the choreography. In the “volte“ ( a hoofbeat figure circle), the beats of a metronome hooks the three actors in a merciless sound field, the rule in here: At least one movement on the beat. Dynamic changes produce the “music“ in a coincidental play along among the performers. 
A piece between dependence and freedom, order and chaos. 
 

"Humour is a popular stylistic device: In a grandiose bizarre short performance, the POGOensemble showed 3 dancers who shake their heads, shrug their bodies or kick out their extremities to the beats of an obtrusive metronome. This choreography was a real discovery.“    Kölner Stadtanzeiger

>  50 minutes, short versions 20 or 10 minutes |  3 performers    |  stage 10 x 10 m

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"Ja Ja der Jodok" 

»I don’t know nothing about uncle Jodok, except that he was the uncle of the grandfather. I don’t know how he looks like, I don’t know where he lives or what he works. I just know his name: Jodok. And I don’t know anybody else who is named like that.«

The piece tells about self constructed friends, which can be inflated on demand, which can be used or which can be left alone. Thematic and acoustic basis is Peter Bichsel’s novel »Jodok läßt grüßen« from his »Kindergeschichten« read by the author himself. Peter Bichsel’s linguistic-play sets the action frame for the movement-play. The characteristic manner of his way of speaking turns into music: tempo, dynamic and illustration of the spoken words are transformed into movement. 

"A brashness. That’s their quality. And their dance, which bewares of formal strength but which is although wild and sexy. The dance audience in the Arkadas-Theatre hooted and romped. That has to be reproduce by someone else first"     Kölner Stadtanzeigera

>  40 minutes, short version 18 minutes | 3 performers | stage 10 x 10 m

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"3PS"

The piece 3PS deals with self-organization within a system. A self-organized system is based on local interaction which leads into a global order. The stability of the system can change by manipulating a parameter. Which appearance the system gets, depends on little fluctuations.
In 3PS the 3 dancers build a self-organized human system. They operate as elements of their system to explore how to transform and turn over the system pattern into a new one by forcing little fluctuations.

"Dilan Ercenk, Denise Temme and Tessa Temme create a fascinating minimalistic arrangement. New formations of more or less interlocking bodies establish again and again. The impulse to change into a new formation leads from the electro-accoustic music piece...The choreography of the 3 dancers, who won many prices, gets under your skin."    Stadtrevue

>  45 minutes, short version 17minutes  | 3 perfomers  |  stage 8 x 8 m

         Photos: Wolfgang Weimer a.o.

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