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HEPTA - acoustic movement concert |
Traces Dance theater ellaH with a courageous experiment between new music and contemporary dance In the luciously brown bark mulch, three dancers are cowering, small and strong, they lay on the floor of the stage. Nearby, componist and musician Aristides Strongylis strokes a tone on his piano. The sound stands in the space and nothing happens. Strongylis balances the piano fixated on wheels over the ankle-deep mulch onto the stage. He begins with his piano piece “The seven open chakras of Dionysos”. This time, the dancers react. Drawn by the music, they crawl over the floor, until they reach the origin of the music, the composer at the piano. Meet-up between new music and contemporary dance |
Bastian Buchtaleck |
May 2011 |
Category F_29 |
Words are failing The dance theater ellaH from Halle and the freie theater nordlichten from Hildesheim have gotten together to discover with scenic means, what this blurry, medical term, in fact circumscripts. Therefore, they have talked to patients, have collected recounts of experiences, that concern the side-effects of antipsychotic drugs, of attempts of therapies in psychiatric clinics and of throbbing feelings of estrangement [...] |
André Mumot |
Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, 02.11.09 |