Puzzle pieces – the multi-faceted world of Trisha Brown
Certainly for everyone with interest in performance art ‘The man walking down the side of a building’ was an early subject of study. And who would have not known Mangolte’s iconic image of ‘Roof Piece’, which seemed to capture the whole spirit of gritty New York City’s 70’s legendary art scene. Gestures travelling through space, […] Read More
Tomorrow is always too long‘s flat ontology
The future is flat, but we will be singing. All what is left for our visual and haptic sensations is the surface. Don’t tell me you still think 3D and virtual reality has depth. In fact it is as plane as Shadow Theater. The future is a never ending surface presence of channel surfing. Life […] Read More
Keep it real
“Keep It Real is shameless and straightforwardly queer. A post-feminist influenza, highly contagious that can cause enjoyment. The protagonist cyborg-bitches tease the thin border between fiction and reality, and their bitch magic goes overboard contaminating everything around them. Zombies and cyborgs seem utterly human and these queer bodies possess dangerous political possibilities, but what is […] Read More
The mind muscle – feelings are facts juxtaposition
The above line references the two titles the Mind is a Muscle and feelings are facts, which belong to works and theoretical insights of one of the most outstanding artists working in what it means to have, move, and be a body, Yvonne Rainer. In 1968 accompanying her evening length performance the Mind is a […] 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
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 […] 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
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
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