Inside Turning Point

When it comes to my choreography I usually take about a year to produce a piece. I like taking my time to choose the ideal space and the artistic team.

With Turning Point it was all quite spontaneous. After an out-of-the-box performance I did in the Socie Gala at Societätstheater in Dresden back in May, I received such good comments that I decided to do an evening of 15-minute solos with four performers. I wanted to do it as soon as possible, I felt inspired and on fire.

Well it took me some months to organize everything and find the team for this idea. The first person I thought about was of course Daniel Williams, as he has a deep understanding of where I am going artistically. Then I thought about Gui Yuexuan with whom I've worked in the past and it is always a delight to have her in the team.

Marie Hofmann and Francesco Ricci came to mind soon after, as I was thinking about someone who could combine their voice with their movement. Both were hungry for a project like this.

I had the team, and I had a rough idea of what the evening should look like, what I didn't have was a theme. It was during a conversation in a cafe with a colleague who had just moved to Dresden, where the theme came to me: Turning Point. You see, she was explaining to me how she had just made a major decision in her life. Listening to her story I realized, this is so human and so relatable, we all have experienced a decisive moment in our lives.

Of course with each project, comes the question: Where is the money gonna come from? To be honest I wasn't concerned, I knew I was going to make this happen and I knew I was going to be able to pay the artists worthily. Just in time I remembered about the small project funding from the Landeshauptstadt Dresden which is precisely for this kind of small and spontaneous shows. I applied and voila, I got the money ;)

A show has to be announced. The design for the poster and all the publicity was very easy this time around. I followed the aesthetic which I used for Phonetic Chills back in 2023. Merging a painting of my mom with blurry dancers. I told my mom the idea and she proposed to me to use one of her paintings "Water Life" It fitted perfectly.

The costumes came quite naturally as well. One day on my way home, I decided to have a look at the shops, I went to Zara and I saw very interesting designs in black, and so with the costume advice of my mom we decided that she would personalize each costume with her painting.

Rehearsals started and after the first week I knew the project was asking for a light designer, which I hadn't planned for. I thought, we have some extra money from the ticket sales, why not destine it to hire a light designer. A name popped into my head, Beate. However, I haven't worked with her before, so I asked Jojo, with whom I have worked in Whispering Widows. He wasn't available (Totally understandable as it was such a short notice, in one week we were having the premiere).

I went back to Beate, oh she was so happy I had thought of her and asked her! She even had time the whole week to do the lights.

The cherry on top of the cake was when I learned that Christian, who had the keys to the venue, had already returned to Dresden, so the second week of the rehearsals was in the performance space!

Everything flowed beautifully, on the 22nd of November we celebrated the unique performance of Turning Point, with a very engaged audience.

Wendepunkt 22.11.2025, Erle6. Dresden

With Gui Yuexuan, Francesco Pio Ricci, Marie Hofmann, Yamile Anaid Navarro Luna, Daniel Williams, Patrizia Luna and Beate Oxenfart.

Das Projekt wird durch das Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz der Landeshauptstadt Dresden gefördert

With the friendly support of Thomas Winkler from Ballettstudio Espiral

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