To deconstruct choreography within geometric and numeric codes following the outlines of specific spatial frameworks is the working scheme for “Raster”. The matrix combines cinematcal, physiological, sonerical and ethnologic agendas and puts them into a discourse beyond stage parameters. Eventually a choreographic narrative concludes the project series.
The relationship between rational emotion and emotional mathematics: chrestomathy as useful learning.
“Opening doors” – In November 1990, “Boogie Woogie – homage to Piet Mondrian” was staged in the Tanz Atelier Prantl.
“Space is experienced through time which is turned into space through movement.”
[Friedrich Kiesler]
“Erinnerungsräume” (Spaces of Memory) is to be understood as a project of instalments. [Mehr lesen…]
Constellations of forces result in systems of forces and give rise to the mobile and static world.
Improvisation on location is obsessive… (duration 36 hours, processing 3 weeks – Wiener Festwochen) …who comes into the plot?
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The architecture of a circle puts a special choreographic concept in motion that develops largely independently of the axis-oriented proscenium stage principle. Steel columns form irregular centres in the surrounding space, thus subdividing it into smaller dimensions.
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In this case, names are important, because the project “For the Birds” is dedicated to John Cage, the famous and recently deceased American composer. But cage is not only a name, but also very suggestive of the glass Traisen Pavilion in St. Pölten, Lower Austria.
Before and between the different movements of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in g minor, KV 550 (molto allegro, andante, menuetto allegro, allegro assai), show-like scenes escalate in banal climaxes that provide a sharp contrast to the many-layered themes of Mozart’s music. However, the composer’s music sweeps over the dancers repeatedly, imposing themselves on them.
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