dancing with gravity – a love supreme by Keersmaeker / Sanchis
“You can’t dance beyond gravity, but you can relate to it. You can consider it not only as something that limits us but also as something that defines us. You can dance with it …” (Keersmaeker in the accompanying book of A Love Supreme, 2019 or in slightly different wording here) The ticket, a gift […] Read More
Pavement
UPDATE 20.Nov: See here for a review in the Guardian. A.I.M.’s piece Pavement is a gem, a real ‘must see’, in interdisciplinary choreography. While I was visiting with little more pre-information than that I liked the posters of street dance I was surprised by the layering of it with classical elements. The dance clearly starts […] Read More
.. and yet things moves …
.. hot wax, plaster, some white powder, colored water and presumably a lot of air not only to breathe, but to activate the instruments, were the main ingredients of Miet Warlop’s rock spectacle (or opera?) “Fruits of Labor”. There is glitter, 60s look and 70s hairstyle wigs, there is guitar play, bass and drumming, Jesus […] Read More
Violet – last perceivable color before the unknown
In Meg Stuart’s citing of herself: “often I say to my dancers: Your body is not yours.â€2 (link) lingers a resonance quite close to Spinoza’s â€what the body can do†– “the body itself, merely from the laws of its own nature alone, can do many things, at which the mind marvels.â€3 Stuart’s 2011 piece […] Read More
Attenberg – or how to watch your own species
Attenberg is a special film and as the director, Athina Rachel Tsangari, says, it does and further might divide the audience. Nevertheless I insist that it is a great film, so worth watching – and not only for finding out, what the intention is behind this spread out poster image of the may be strangest […] Read More
d|b – bright reflection versus dark wave (and vice versa)
‘db’ is the cryptic title of the actual show by the Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda that by no means can be emphasized as an ‘empty set’. This notion, which is used to express the smallest unit in mathematical philosophy, constitutes as well an attractive field for the artist who is known for his […] Read More
… so worth to see: NELISIWE XABA
In the context of the ‘Border Border Express‘ event at the HAU in Berlin I was so lucky to see two fantastic pieces by Nelisiwe Xaba with 2 pieces: They look at me and that’s all they think & Sarkozy Says ‘Non’ To The Venus Both pieces refer to the story of Sara Baartman, known […] Read More
some favorites to look forward to ……
.. as I might be able to attend …. or at least consequent pieces …. Xavier Le Roy – Self Unfinished (1998) .. will be able to see ‘Babel’ in December though this looks amazing …. .. and just something I would loved to have seen .. Read More
something else: the window across .. etc …
I always liked Friederike Mayröcker writings .. and this is a perfect beginning of a film I would wish to see …. soon .. DAS SCHREIBEN UND DAS SCHWEIGEN – Trailer >>> website of the filmmaker Read More
women without men
A strange trailer was the best I could find to bring over a feeling for a film hard to be described. May be the closest description is indeed to favor its strong feminine point of view – women looked at in their unique characteristics, restrictions, and ways they find for their desires. A deep melancholy […] Read More