Christine Matschke
Dance journalist
Dancing under the stars and in the light of hundreds of torches one night, visiting the theatre the next, and the opera the night after that: The Baroque was considered the age of multidisciplinary productions and lavish festivities. But what makes a festive gathering today at the end of what is, in many respects, an extraordinary year? This is precisely the question the laborgras duo also found themselves asking. Renate Graziadei and Arthur Stäldi have been creating dance in Berlin for 20 years now. Idea, concept and choreography are their joint effort; she dances, he handles the dramaturgy. Their latest piece, “Das Fest” (“The Festivity”), encourages people to escape from their (Coronavirus-influenced) everyday life on the last three days of the year. Together with the music ensemble CONTINUUM, five laborgras performers will then delightfully wander through disciplines to selected compositions of Georg Friedrich Händel. Definitely a necessary and – considering the rules regarding distance and hygiene due to the pandemic – sensually exuberant transition into a new year, one that will, hopefully, feature a lot less physical distancing.
- November/December 2020
- Editorial
- (Un-)Lust am Text?
- Performative Mixtape
- Homage To Companions
- Autonomous Sound Collective
- Rewriting Cultural Codes
- Delightfully Enchanting
- Vain Struggle For Truth?
- The Essence Of Fruit
- Questions Of Faith?
- A Dash Of Strangeness
- Imaginary Landscapes
- Like A Crack In The Air
- Von Abstand bis Zusammensein
- Half-Human Aquatic Study
- Versus Finality
- Power Centers Of Bodies and Sound
- The Return Of The Repertoire