LEVITATION* – die Leichtigkeit der Schwerkraft (the lightness of gravity)

a stage performance about gravity

Nominated for the saxonian Dance Award (Ursula Cain Preis) 2014/15


Idea

LEVITATION is all about gravitation. Gravity has a direct influence on evolution, posture, anatomy, in fact every movement. We will “float” a choreography of the air objects that could quite literally “take off“.

Air objects

So-called “Pneus” play an important role: both in terms of their content and stage-aesthetics. As “performers”, they interact equally with the dancers and have the ability to take on a dynamically diverse dimension in the stage expanse. LEVITATION experiments with the inside, outside, object- and surround-space, enclosure and opening, volume and vacuum (emptiness) …

The Video, an alternate point of view

Part of the piece is a video by Héctor Solari, which is projected just after the show.


Excerpts (3 min.)

Trailer N°1 , N°2, N°3 (by Héctor Solari)

Trailer #1
Trailer #2
Trailer #3

*LEVITATION = to rise by virtue of lightness (from Latin levitas „lightness“)


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