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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 […]
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Pieces in the space of in-between
CocoonDance ‘Pieces of Me’ dissolves the fixed stage as well as linear narration. Concepts like these certainly attract my attention, nevertheless I am also aware that such an experiment might not necessarily lead to an immersing experience of now here, but eventually a no where situation. In the case of this piece it is hard […]
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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 […]
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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. […]