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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 […]
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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.”2 (link) lingers a resonance quite close to Spinoza’s ”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.”3 Stuart’s 2011 piece […]
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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 […]
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Being open for the open –
on L. Chétouane’s 15 Variationen über das OffeneL. 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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freedom – The Wall
.. no one ever told you it would be easy, I guess – nevertheless we are all looking for it. It – that means – freedom. Easy you thought? .. so why then aren’t you there – over there, where it’s easy. For here on this side of the wall – I cannot claim that […]