The legendary Tropicana nightclub in Havana (Cuba), with its glamorous history, serves as the starting point for Joana Tischkau’s new work, “TRAPICANA”. Together with choreographer Jeremy Nedd, Sophie Yukiko and the Malpaso Dance Company, she explores the phenomenon of the “tourist trap” and the inherent tension between cultural authenticity and exoticization. In a nightmarish revue, imagined Afro-Cuban dances collide with trap music. “TRAPICANA” deconstructs the clichés that fuel exoticizing fantasies, while simultaneously creating new visual worlds that attempt to bring us a little closer to actual reality.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION Joana Tischkau CHOREOGRAPHY Joana Tischkau, Jeremy Nedd, Sophie Yukiko TANZ & PERFORMANCE Malpaso Dance Company - Daile Carrazana, Dayron Domínguez, Esven Conrado González, Frank David González, Dario Ortega, Laura Rodríguez, Jennifer Suárez, Carlos Daniel Valladares, Greta Yero SOUND Frieder Blume STAGE Lea Steinhilber COSTUME Lenna Stam LIGHT DESIGN & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Hendrik Borowski ARTISTIC PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lianne Mol MANAGEMENT Lisa Gehring ASSISTANT DIRECTION & PRODUCTION Ricardo Sarmiento Ramírez ASSISTANT COSTUME Marina Stillger

A production by Joana Tischkau. Co-produced with Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer und Goethe-Institut Havanna, funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin and Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main.