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here to there

Foto malaika disch

8. - 10. & 13. - 17. august 2003 um 21°°

"HALLE", Eberswalderstrasse 10-11, 10437 Berlin

 

conzeption/ choreography Toula Limnaios

dance/ creation Raffaella Galdi, Ulrich Huhn, Lena Meierkord, Krzystof Zawadzki

composition/ music Ralf R. Ollertz

lighting design Klaus Dust

press Silke Wiethe

A cie. toula limnaios production funded by Kulturamts Pankow/ Berlin.

here to there expands into a quadraphonic kaleidoscope of parallels and variations and distributes them with an uncanny dynamic in continuously changing constellations in the entire space of the HALLE to form a multifariously knotted web of angles and human relationships.

here to there follows the motif of near and far, arrival and departure, facing towards and then away, quiet and unquiet, unity and multiplicity. Dancers and audience become mirror images, shadows or facets of the other. In a polyphonic portrait, a canon of personalities develop, in which similarities and variations, mutual aspects and individual particularities meet. “here to there” looks at the boundaries between me and the others and tests to what degree body, spirit and experience connect or separate.


“Why am I me and not you?
Why am I here and why not there?
When did time begin and where does space end?”

(Text by Peter Handke in the film “Wings of Desire” by Wim Wenders)

press reviews

Pure Presence in clouds.

“here to there” is one of the most compelling pieces, that Toula Limnaios has shown in the past few years. The stage set is more or less composed of the audience itself… The chairs (are) distributed in the hall like a choreographic notation. Some sit solitary in the middle of the space. There are groups of twos and threes and here and there small concentrations of chairs.

All and all there’s room for 60 viewers – and four dancers, who at first inconspicuously slide back and forth on their chairs and the gradually transform into a cloud of pure presence, traveling through the space in all directions. For that seems to be what this is mainly about: different forms of concentration, energetic and perceptual states formed by movement. The dancers occasionally lie directly in front of the audience’s feet; the movements slide directly by.

Minimal structures are repeated again and again in a synchronized form, until the first dancer inconspicuously breaks out of the monotony or the whole group together suddenly falls into a different rhythm, a different arrangement. How do changes occur, how does something new insinuate itself into the existent, how can one be the result of the other – that’s the game.


The click of the jacket buttons, that are opened and closed, the sound of the arms cutting air, the tautness of the dancers’ bodies even in the quietest moments ... the contact with the audience doesn’t grows out of direct allusions, but out of pure presence.


Berliner Zeitung, Feuilleton, Michaela Schlagenwerth, 11. August 2003.

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