”Is it dance, is it theatre, is it performance, is it philosophy? When it comes to PLAN MEE, there is only one answer: Yes!.“
CURT Magazine
”This year [2023], Eva Borrmann will receive the Cultural Award of the City of Nuremberg for the aesthetic complexity and atmospheric density of her productions, which leave no one untouched, creating a sensual pull without losing any of their subtlety““
City of Nuremberg about the winners of the cultural award winners 2023, online
”This unususal artistic approach is strong, unconventional and novel“
kunstnürnberg.de
PLAN MEE /
Eva Borrmann
Eva Borrmann* is a freelance choreographer, dancer and founder of PLAN MEE.
She has been producing performance and dance productions under the label PLAN MEE since 2015. PLAN MEE regards the socially formed body as the starting point for movement research into social perspectives and takes cultural phenomenons, myths and transformative rituals as the basis for its artistic work.
In PLAN MEE‘s artistic work Eva Borrmann creates an atmosphere which infuses the bodies of the audience like a slowly burning balsam. This PLAN MEE aesthetic was gestated in darkness, far removed from everyday stimuli and reveals itself with an unusual intimacy. Entering a world which is formed by an subtly arranged interaction of music, light, costumes and dance, the audience finds itself faced with abstract, often graceful pictures, playing on sensory stimuli.
* Following her training in classical and contemporary dance Eva Borrmann worked with Johann Kresnik, Joshua Monten, Alexandra Pirici and deufert&plischke, among others. At the same time, she studied "Dance and Performing Arts" and "Arts Education" at the Institute for Theatre Studies in Bern. Festivals and residencies have taken her to Athens, Cologne, Marseille and Prague. Her works have been shown at Sophiensäle Berlin, tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Baden Baden, among others. In 2021, she was part of the "Bodies of Care" project of the Goethe Institute Indonesia. For the years 2021 - 2023 she received the Impulse Grant of the City of Nuremberg. In 2023, she also received the Cultural Award of the City of Nuremberg for her artistic work.
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
UN AMOR oder DIE ERFINDUNG MEINER MUTTER (UN AMOR or MY MOTHER'S INVENTION)
Premiere: November 2022 I Tafelhalle Nuremberg
"I am giving birth to my mother..." This is how the narrative of choreographer and dancer Eva Borrmann begins, who approaches the image of the mother in a solo performance. She reconstructs formative dance experiences with her own mother, who devoted herself to flamenco for years. Thus the drawing of the graceful flamenco dancer is omnipresent in Borrmann's performance and at the same time forms an image of woman that searches for its present position.
"Retrospectively, I feel my mother and flamenco as strongly formative - a passionate, strong and loud image of women opens up to me. Only where has this strong and inspiring image disappeared to over the years?" Eva Borrmann's performative narrative is unsparing in this respect, oscillating between wistful turns to the past and crystal-clear observations of catastrophic family events. In sixty minutes, a past weekend in the family circle is constructed that resonates to this day. Reflections, dance ecstasy and fantasy become a burning declaration of love for one's own biography - a struggle between nostalgia and the present.
In this performance, dance and text merge to form an evening of theatre that transcends genres and is created in close collaboration with Urs Humpenöder.
This project is made possible by the Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT) with funding from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the City of Nuremberg, Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg/Fürth e. V., TANZ_TAUSCH_NETZWERK and Tanztendenz München e.V., Sparkassen Kulturstiftung. This production is a co-operation with the Tafelhalle Nürnberg as part of the impulse funding of the City of Nuremberg.
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RED.FOREST
Premiere: December 2019 I Tafelhalle Nuremberg
Fairy tales, especially those written by the Brothers Grimm, are an inherant part of our childhood. But not everything which was written down for posterity was originally destined for children’s ears. Many of the tales the Grimms told were characterised rathermore by the themes of sexuality and death in the original narrative and in the first instance were written and passed down for adults by adults. Eva Borrmann rediscovers the fairy-tale, „Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf“ and scrutinises the themes of relationship, generational conflicts and sexuality.
A co-production with the Tafelhalle Nuremberg in Kunstkulturquartier, supported by Tanzzentrale of the Nuremberg Region; financially supported by the City of Nuremberg, the Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT) with funds from the Bavarian Ministery for Science and Culture.
DAS ERBE (THE LEGACY)
Premiere: September 2018 I Tafelhalle Nuremberg
This performance explores the relationship between places and memory. The architecture serves as the starting point for a physical examination of what is allowed to be rememberesd and what has been forgotten. The memory of the individual challenges the collective memory. What do we remember? How do we remember?
The LEGACY sketches an ongoing process of debate about how history effects a group or a society.
A co-production with the Tafelhalle Nuremberg in Kunstkulturquartier, supported by Tanzzentrale of the Nuremberg Region; financially supported by the City of Nuremberg, the Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT) with funds from the Bavarian Ministery for Science and Culture.
EAT THE FLOOR! – A CONTEMPORARY CEREMONY
Premiere: February 2018 I Tafelhalle Nuremberg
PLAN MEE creates its own ceremony. EAT THE FLOOR – a contemporary ceremony is a solemn act, which is searching for the bottomless, the void, the free fall. The ceremony re-enacts the drama of life, just as theatre does. Pleasure and severity, fiction and reality occur so closely entwined that they can hardly be held apart.
A co-production with the Tafelhalle Nuremberg in Kunstkulturquartier, supported by Tanzzentrale of the Nuremberg Region; financially supported by the City of Nuremberg, the Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance (BLZT) with funds from the Bavarian Ministery for Science and Culture.
