Organs with limbs
Isabelle Schad’s ‘Collective Jumps’ is an ambitious dance piece offering refreshingly unexpected views. But after its premiere last November I was hesitant to write about it as I could not come to terms with some ambiguous impressions gained. Parts of it did not make an easy fit into the progressive frame of the work’s presentation […] Read More
As if blown-up cheeks could drag you down …
In the flickers of light which flash into the darkness of the theater space six dancers slowly become recognizable. Standing in a certain distance to each other they form a half circle at the far end of the flat stage area of the HAU2 in Berlin (6.Dec. 2014). Their hands are hidden in the pockets […] Read More
tauberbach – sensing Bach
The titel Tauberbach of one of the latest pieces of Les Ballets C de la B and Alain Platel, if translatable at all might be read as deafbach, which includes this misspelling of putting two words (deaf +Bach) together, which usually are not written that way. Tauberbach refers to the work of the polish artist […] Read More
Tanz über Gräben – Sacré Sacre du Printemps
The entrance piece to the recent conference ‘Tanz über Gräben’ at the Radialsystem V was for me certainly L. Chétouane’s choreography of ‘Sacré Sacre du Printemps’ and its re-staging at the HAU in this context. It was now shown in the much wider horizon of this really multi-facetted conference, reminding 100 years of the first […] Read More
DISTORTION_VERZERRUNG
Constanza Macras’ piece Distortion is a first time cooperation with the HipHop Academy Hamburg. The break- and street dancers meet the live musicians from the company of DorkyPark in a choreography that diffracts breakdance and hip-hop moves with keywords from political and media discourses. In question is the definition of identity for ‘being German’ when […] Read More
Being open for the open –
on L. Chétouane’s 15 Variationen über das Offene
L. Chétouane – 15 Variations on Openness premiered at the HAU, Berlin, 30./31. August 2013 Being open for the open – this setting for a mutual encounter of the undefined asks to allow the yet still unexplicable to approach one’s sense/bility in all its open-ended variations of possibilities, and to whatever experience it might lead. […]
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My only true country is my body
Faustin Linyekula & CCN-Ballet de Lorraine La Création du monde 1923 – 2012 Recreation of the choreography of 1923: Millicent Hodson & Kenneth Archer see an excerpt here at youtube Body politics is of great concern these days, and here in the West we are so often subject to it through subtle and habitual ways, that we […] Read More
After Trio A
Andrea Bozic, After Trio A / video link via dance-tech.tv “After Trio A is not a re-staging of Trio A but a dialogue with it.†says the choreographer Andrea Bozic and to emphasize it, she replies to Yvonne Rainer’s famous No-Manifesto: No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe […] Read More
One day, when I was doing things at home …
Kat Válastur Oh! Deep sea-corpus III ( Your whole life passes before your eyes)Performed by: Ana Laura Lozza, Enrico Ticconi, Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Kat Válastur Oh! Deep sea-corpus III was the first piece I saw by Kat Válastur and her dance crew, but it left a deep mental/bodily impact equally when watching it back then […] Read More
Inmates of the inbetween-space
The piece I am writing here about is with a history, one that had created a big turmoil when first performed. It is in itself a disturbing piece about the renewal and sacrifice of energies – “the mystery and great surge of the creative power of Spring†as Strawinsky defined it: Le Sacre Du Printemps. […] Read More
Flying while there is ‘No Time To Fly’ or the Art of Dis-attachement
»Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere« – that can also be translated to – “.. I have been everywhere .. ” and both might be essential in a similar way for the unique performance Deborah Hay gave during the recent ‘Tanz im August’ Festival in Berlin. See here an excerpt of a similar […] Read More
Newly ordered disorder (not yet fully aligned)
Political Mother – The Choreographer’s Cut by Hofesh Shechter rocks! That can be taken literally, in terms of the acoustic score, as well read in the visuals. The piece conveys an eclectically figurative language like one might know from a graphic novel. It is a composite of wild action seemingly excerpted from a Japanese manga, […] Read More