Jitti Chompee, director of the ‘Unfolding Kafka Festival’, encountered this invigorating piece at the Tanzplattform Germany 2018 in Essen. The pulsating wild energy shared by the performers allows the audience to experience a shared immersive environment. The evolving kinetic energy generates the raw sensation of exhaustion which allows the collective in the space to connect at a primal level.
There is a club-like atmosphere: a feverish, live-produced and pulsating beat surrounded by an austere, dark setting. A slight twist of the torso here, a sudden nod there, then slowly accelerating to a swaying, a twitch or a gyration of the entire body. None of these external proceedings reveal anything about the inner feelings. Only the rhythm and speed unite the movements in a structural dimension. The pure physical, sweat-inducing choreography and the fusion of light and sound are generating a hypnotic energy.
By and with: Alvaro Esteban, Werner Nigg, Andi Xhuma
Choreography, Direction: Rafaële Giovanola
Music: Franco Mento
Light design, set: Marc Brodeur
Choreographic Assistance: Fa-Hsuan Chen
Dramaturgy: Rainald Endraß
Management: Mechtild Tellmann
Photos by Klaus Fröhlich & Fa-Hsuan Chen
Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. iDAS NRW international dance artist service
ArtistCocoonDanceYear(2016, Germany/Dance)VenueMAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum/ NOV 24 at 18:00 Jim Thompson House/ NOV 26 at 18:30Urlhttp://www.cocoondance.de
