Choreograph
ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
Goetheplatz 1-3
28203 Bremen, Deutschland
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton)
Based on the cultural-historical metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants, who can look further than the giant himself, Helge Letonja questions our integration into our fellow world with his intense, associative visual and body language.
Our state of interconnectedness becomes tangible with the interplay of the ten expressive dance personalities. Sometimes blurred and concealed, sometimes direct and sudden, fluc-tuating between attraction and repulsion, separation and harmony, disintegration and reori-entation, the choreography unfolds in space.
The ensemble dances – exploring with its art of movement the fragility of human existence, which is always revealed anew in the relationship of the dwarf to the giant, between gigan-tic blindness and dwarfish lucidity.
In dialogue with the compositions of Simon Goff with songs by Lynn Wright, sometimes melancholic, sometimes stirring and swelling, a work about our condition and the ability to change perspectives is created.
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