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Performing
THE RITE OF SPRING
THE RITE OF SPRING EMANUEL GAT DANCE (2009) Emanuel Gat’s critically acclaimed version of THE RITE OF SPRING combines Igor Stravinsky’s legendary musical score with cuban salsa dancing. At full speed, couples form, break off, partners are changed without the movement stopping, forming an uninterrupted chain of salsa and creating a crescendo of anxiety until […]
SILENT BALLET
SILENT BALLET EMANUEL GAT DANCE (2009) An orchestration of movements, this dance piece is using silence as well as its own live sounds, as a dense, thick, musical environment, open to endless opportunities for melodic, harmonic and dynamic interpretation. A self-contained dance, SILENT BALLET is a work for 8 dancers, experimenting with different sets of […]
LARGO
Ingun Bjornsgaard / Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg / Tanztheater BremenLARGO TANZCOMPAGNIE OLDENBURG & TANZTHEATER BREMEN (2009) With a choreographic language full of poetry and theatricality, and a fondness for the ambiguous and irrational, Ingun Bjørnsgaard stands in the spiritual-cultural tradition of her Scandinavian homeland. LARGO constantly moves between dream and reality, memory and presence, here and there. LARGO exposes the layers that lie beneath […]
HEAVEN
HEAVEN TANZCOMPAGNIE OLDENBURG (2008) Whether one takes a look at Dante‘s Divine Comdey, the Talmud or the Koran – in all those works heaven is presented as another and better world. Like eden and paradise, it is a symbol for a place of peace and eternal bliss. In heaven we can find freedom and fulfillment. […]
WITH YOUR EYES
WITH YOUR EYES TANZCOMPAGNIE OLDENBURG & TANZTHEATER BREMEN (2008) In WITH YOUR EYES Israeli choreographer Rami Be‘er puts already existing movement-material from the repertory of his Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in a new context in order to discover different dynamics, atmospheres and sensations. Changing between magical surreal moments and scenes drawn from everyday life, the piece […]
HOW DO YOU DO?!
HOW DO YOU DO?! TANZCOMPAGNIE OLDENBURG (2007) Whenever we’re sure of having finally gained a certain amount of control over our lives, something is bound to go wrong. All our plans, careful preparations and ambitions are lapsed, when confronted with the unexpected. In an ironic, witty and turbulent way HOW DO YOU DO?! presents the strategies […]
DRUMMING
DRUMMING TANZTHEATER BIELEFELD (2007) Steve Reich‘s breakthrough masterpiece Drumming builds the starting point and common ground for four independent choreographic works by Gregor Zöllig, Shlomi Bitton, Lionel Hoche and Jo Strømgren. The recurrent theme is the powerful and hypnotic music which was inspired by Reich‘s studies of african drumming.
STADT.STOLPER.STEINE
STADT.STOLPER.STEINE TANZTHEATER BIELEFELD (2007) Repulsive living comfort meets urban practicality – there‘s no room left for romantic big-city melancholy à la West Side Story. The inhabitants of the restless world which we find in STADT.STOLPER.STEINE are rather stumbling, rushing and running every which way, completing to put on their clothes on the go, stopping for […]
IF YOU’RE GONNA DINE WITH THE CANNIBALS, SOONER OR LATER, DARLING, YOU’RE GONNA GET EATEN
IF YOU’RE GONNA DINE WITH THE CANNIBALS, SOONER OR LATER, DARLING, YOU’RE GONNA GET EATEN TANZTHEATER BIELEFELD (2006) IF YOU’RE GONNA DINE WITH THE CANNIBALS, SOONER OR LATER, DARLING, YOU’RE GONNA GET EATEN draws inspiration from a song by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Cannibal’s Hymn of their 2004 album Abbatoir Blues / […]
