Selected Press, "PROLOGUE"

Allusive emotional explosions: Hanna Hegenscheidt´s "Prologue", performed in three miniatures is a highlight of the Tanztage. (...)
In "Prologue" Hanna Hegenscheidt tells in three scenes the prehistory, the attempt to a performance, which stays secondary itself.
Angharad Davies, Run Shayo and Christopher Daftsios move through these episodes with as much ease and control as Hanna Hegenscheidt choreographed it with. This handwriting, worked out to the last detail, makes one curious for more. Hegenscheidt, who is known as a teacher of Klein Technique and moves back and fourt between New York and Berlin, is planing to spend more time here.

Berliner Morgenpost, 12.01.2005

The choreographer, dancer and teacher, who works mostly in Berlin, inspects the situation of the performers shortly before their presentation in three lose episodes. (...) To reflect on the conditions of a performance, the before and after of a dancer - those are ways of abstraction, which prevent the audience to comfortably identify, but are as much stronger in its displayed authenticity. In the second part of this extraordinary choreography another layer is added. In addition to the relationship between the dancers and the audience the problems of the performers appear - competitiveness, trust, jealousy. (...) In subtle and absurd, performance situations the dancers own role is being questioned and parodied. The acted dilettantism on the edge to embarrassment promises much humor.

Die Tageszeitung, 11.01.2005, Astrid Hackel

(…) outstanding also the performance "Prologue" by Hanna Hegenscheidt, who investigates the WHY behind the performance situation with charming self-irony and minimalism.

Ute Schalz-Laurenze, Syker Zeitung, 16. Maerz, 2004