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Danced Diversity
Spoken language and body language, both mix in an exquisite way in the latest piece of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui en Damien Jalet – BABEL (words). The piece fascinatingly shows a wide variety of expressions including aggression, humor, an almost slapstick-like behavior and a deep sensuality for the forms and languages of the body, – ...
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Dance is hard to see *
In the new issue of Kaleidoscope I came across an article on the new work of the dancer Michael Clark & his company and trying to find out more … just discovered these elder ones ..
It is in attitude quite close to traditional ballet, though refreshingly breaking down boundaries … crossing into …
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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 ..
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corporal experience: Out of Context – For Pina
‘Chorea’ is a medical term referring to an affected nervous system, the symptoms of which are jerky movements and poor coordination.
Finally I had the chance to see the entire piece ‘Out of Context – For Pina’ by Alain Platel | Les ballets C de la B. Though it was a thought-provoking experience on …
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Influx Controls: I wanna be wanna be
The choreographer Boyzie Cekwana grew up in Soweto and started his dance career in South Africa. Since then, his work has been shown all over the world; in Europe this includes the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna, and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. In his productions, Cekwana links the …
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Dancing in my mind – Suzushi Hanayagi
I know, I should have been writing more with all the dancing on my mind from the stimulating Tanz im August event, and I hope I will get to it the next days. Though first I want to focus on the quite moving event with Robert Wilson’s hommage (german audio on demand link) to …
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MELT … & more – body and site related performances
Some weeks ago I really could imagine how she felt …. “When I first came to new York it was so unbearable hot. It’s the feeling that your body is going to disintegrate and the body as material. ...” (link) and coming across the announcement of the upcoming NYC performances I discovered these really …