Latter (Lachen)

“I like to laugh. I laugh often. I am often seen laughing” – Antonia Baehr

Lachen is a piece about laughing as laughing. For the length of the piece Antonia Baehr explores this expression as a sovereign entity, in separation from causal baggage; jokes, tickles, narrative, humor, joy, looking at the thing itself: the sound and shape, the music, choreography and drama, the rhythm and the gesture of laughter. Comedy is not her goal, but contamination is an unavoidable by-product that sometimes contagiously trades sides of the ‘fourth wall’ . A cult hit on the European arts scene since it debuted in 2008.

Antonia Baehr is a Berlin-based choreographer, filmmaker and dramaturge. She graduated in Film- and Media Arts at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Valie Export (1996) and obtained a DAAD-grant and a Merit Scholarship for the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. From 2006 until 2008 she was associated artist in residence at “Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers“ in France. In 2008 she published her book “Rire / Laugh / Lachen”. Her productions include: “Holding hands” (2000), “Un après-midi” (2003), “Larry Peacock” (2005), “Merci” (2006), “Rire / Laugh / Lachen” (2008) and “For Faces” (2011).