a stage performance about gravity
- Choreography/concept: Irene Schröder & Wolfgang Kurtz
- Dance/performance: Berit Jentzsch (premiere version 2014), Wolfgang Kurtz, Irene Schröder, Romy Schwarzer (2015)
- Sound: Robert Rehnig
- Video: Héctor Solari
- Light design: Tanja Rühl
- Supported by:
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
LOFFT das Theater Leipzig
HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden - Premiere: 23. October 2014, LOFFT das Theater Leipzig
- More information on the project-website: levitation1.de
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)
*LEVITATION = to rise by virtue of lightness (from Latin levitas „lightness“)
