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Foto cyan

Nothing. I’ll be there by not being there.

conception/choreography Toula Limnaios

composition/ music Ralf R. Ollertz

video cyan

lightdesign Klaus Dust

dance/ creation Josep Caballero Garcia, Ulrich Huhn, Lara Martelli - Hisleiter, Monica Muñoz Marin, Evelin Stadler

press/dram assistance Silke Wiethe

 

You cannot stay here,
But you cannot go further,
And you cannot go back.
Where are you?


“Nowhere. I’ll be there without being there.” is a production inspired by Samuel Becketts’ ‘Texts about Nothing’ (1955) - diary and interior dialogue of a multiple personality. Five dancers follow its different facets: Searching for their own traces they scrutinize interspaces between body and soul, individual and society, dream and memory, space and time. Lost objects from past, possible and future destinies cross their paths. Varying here and now, elsewhere and nowhere, they explore inner landscapes – mirrors of the soul – as if it were a daydream, at once concrete and confusing.


“…we walked, hand in hand, silent, lost in our worlds, each in his worlds, with into one another forgotten hands.” (Samuel Beckett)

Production CIE. TOULA LIMNAIOS commanded by the KULTUR-SEKRETARIATS NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN
in Co-Produktion with STADTTHEATER OBERHAUSEN aND THEATER AM HALLESCHEN UFER BERLIN with kind support by DEN MITTELN DES HAUPTSTADTKULTURFONDS and FONDS DARSTELLENDE KÜNSTE E.V. AUS MITTELN DES BUNDES

press reviews


“Between Dream and Reality"

an impressive evening inspired by Beckett (…) The theme of this choreography is the inner world of a multiple personality in all its not always perceptible structures. The spectator gets drawn into a surreal, only emotionally tangible stream of different moods. The stage is covered with white sheets of gauze. The five dancers enter this surreal landscape in slow motion. The sound of a male choir floats softly over the scene. The music darts through the space, pulling the strange spheres closer together. (…)The superb dancers are brilliant in synchronous scenes, but they are also convincing in poetic soli and powerful duos or trios in which the rhythm continuously changes. This was an evening of high quality dance that was not easily accessible, but which received a lot of applause.”
WAZ - Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung , Elisabeth Höving, Recklinghausen, 15.09.2001.

 

“She does not want to tell stories. The dance of Toula Limnaios elicits an emotional response from the viewer to various atmospheres. Emotions mirror the movements. The choreography was inspired by Samuel Beckett's ‘Texts about Nothing’ from 1955, the interior monologue of a man isolated from the world as well as from himself. (…) The composer Ralf R. Ollertz has managed wonderfully to capture this using a male choir as a symbol for isolation and loneliness. More gentle, more reserved than Pina Bausch with whom she worked, but no less intense, Limnaios depicts the hopelessness in an equally poetic and foreboding manner...” WAZ – Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung, hb. 08.09.2001, Oberhausen.

 

“As with Samuel Beckett, Toula Limnaios’s aim is not to reflect or comment on the different levels of a multiple personality but to elucidate their subtlest facets and to let them work on the consciousness in the same way as a freely-assembled series of images of highly emotional content. (…) The stage was covered by white sheets of gauze which projected light designer Klaus Dust's play of colours and transformed figures into shadows. (…) The work is not meant to be interpreted in a concrete manner and is not easily accessible to passive consumption. The audience present at this performance grasped the concept and was captivated by the severe beauty of the performance.”
WAZ – Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung, Radegundis Barrios, 11.09.2001, Oberhausen.

 

Bodies’ tender traces: (...) Lucid and beautiful images (…) and wonderful dancing…
WZ – Westdeutsche Zeitung, Kornelia Roskothen, 13.09.2001, Wuppertal

 

„...the cie. Toula Limnaios was very impressive at the festival "Meeting Neuer Tanz". (…) There, they won one of this year's award, presented by the Kultursekretariat Nordrhein-Westfalen. That the decision was a good one could be seen at the world premiere of their
piece at the Theater Oberhausen. (…) Toula Limnaios audaciously related imagination and reality, as well as real and fictitious images which seemed to mirror each other. The company’s artistic credo is to explore boundaries and to create magical spaces with dance, music, video and light. (…). The multiple personalities encounter each other tenderly and also at times ferociously in dance, but nevertheless remain alone in the search for themselves. This becomes very intense in the videos of cyan.
NRZ – Neue Ruhrzeitung, Johannes K. Glauber, Oberhausen, 10.09.2001.

 

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