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drift

conception/choreographyToula Limnaios

dance/creation Chandana M. Hörmann, Ulrich Huhn, Toula Limnaios

music Ralf R. Ollertz

lightdesign Klaus Dust

press Silke Wiethe

dram. assistance Burghard Duhm

The gradual virtualisation of our surroundings and the exponential increase in information that has to be processed has led to the multiplication and fragmentation of the individual. Because it is constantly connected to a multifarious network of personally, locally and temporally dispersed relationships, what was originally the indivisible ego is now simultaneously present in multiple forms in many different places – thus resulting in a multiphrenic state:

“The flexible human being, cannot just agree with one opinion, he has no peace of mind, he goes, where the wind carries him. We are aimless drifters in this day and age.” (T. Limnaios).

drift is a cie. toula limnaios and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau co-production. The performances at the Bauhaus Dessau were made possible by the National Performance Net with funding from the Federal Commisioner for Culture and Media as well as the Cultural Ministries of the states of Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thueringen.

Committed by the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau Germany

press reviews

A knot in time.

The company presents in “drift“ an impressive piece, developed in collaboration with the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. The piece is a formal reaction to the architecture of this strange space and internalizes current media theoretical discourse, without at the same time losing the soulful poetry of the artist. Large mirror walls split the stage into two worlds. Passages of human existence overlap to Ralf R. Ollertz’s emphatic music of motor roaring and snatches of the everyday.
While Chandana Hörmann and Ulrich Huhn exist side by side in silent dialogues, lulling themselves into security with abstract waltz variations or take off the masks of their own emotions, the twisted body of Toula Limnaios mirrors itself on the other side, distorting itself in the shadows of distant gestures. It achieves medial confusion entirely without video, the viewer zapping from once space to the next. You have to adjust to keeping the desire to control it all visually in check. But this is also quite intoxicating.

Berliner Morgenpost 8. May 2002 Andrea Philippi