… so worth to see: NELISIWE XABA
In the context of the ‘Border Border Express‘ event at the HAU in Berlin I was so lucky to see two fantastic pieces by Nelisiwe Xaba with 2 pieces: They look at me and that’s all they think &...
View ArticleI like: Canada’s enfant terrible
Another performance I had the chance to see lately was Dave St.Pierre’s Libido, which was performed in the context of intransit 11 in Berlin. Admittedly it has been both – disturbing and thrilling –...
View Articlesmall theater-great result: merlin or the wasteland
There is not that much I find about Tankred Dorst’s Merlin or the Wasteland in English sources, and I have to admit that I myself wasn’t aware of this work, which now caught me and my attention, as a...
View ArticleFailure as springboard to success
By accident I am just discovering Chris Kraus, film-maker, writer and co-editor of Semiotext(e) as I came across the announcement for Performative Philosophy: The films and writings of Chris Kraus and...
View ArticleNewly ordered disorder (not yet fully aligned)
Political Mother – The Choreographer’s Cut by Hofesh Shechter rocks! That can be taken literally, in terms of the acoustic score, as well read in the visuals. The piece conveys an eclectically...
View Articled|b – bright reflection versus dark wave (and vice versa)
‘db’ is the cryptic title of the actual show by the Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda that by no means can be emphasized as an ‘empty set’. This notion, which is used to express the smallest...
View ArticleFlying while there is ‘No Time To Fly’ or the Art of Dis-attachement
»Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere« – that can also be translated to – “.. I have been everywhere .. ” and both might be essential in a similar way for the unique performance Deborah...
View ArticleInmates 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleAfter 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleBeing 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...
View ArticleDISTORTION_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...
View ArticleViolet – 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...
View ArticleTanz 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...
View Articletauberbach – 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...
View ArticlePieces 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...
View ArticleAs 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleKeep 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...
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