BACK TO YOU
Creation for and with Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern Dance Ensemble.
How do we travel through time altogether?
»back to you« is situated along a lighthouse in a doubted time. Inspired by retrofuturism, it explores organic mechanisms, machinery and poetic addressed to time as a living being.
By embarking on a journey through time, shifting and passing through past and future tenses, we experience possible ways of dealing with time and express ourselves in close proximity to it as an ever-operating motor. We become aware of its nature, act with it, or turn against it.
In a live chorus, the dancers imitate past, present, and future technologies, enacting a process in which they explore the space between a cliff and a shore.
This multifaceted horizon of shifts, cracks, and instability underscores the human desire to control and understand time. „back to you“ works with continuous loops, and layers of time, highlighting how, in a constantly changing world, we try to make sense through chaos, and come together towards familiarity, to find light in the midst.
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"Tension is the defining element of this dance evening: It thrives on the tension that arises from the interplay of bodies and their interaction with light, sound, and space. Sometimes the dancers surrender to the rhythm generated by drumming rain sounds, which intensifies more and more. They embody this rhythm as if in a state of ecstasy within their own bodies—or they resist it, rebel against its dictates, seeking their own path against the recurring structure it imposes. As breathing organisms, they are part of a world that at times seems to stand still, and at other times continues to pulse."
- Konstanze Führlbeck, Die Rheinpfalz.
Choreography and Costumes: Nitsan Margaliot
Stage and Costume Design: Matthias Nebel
Music: Antoine Mermet
Lighting: Daniel Vierling
Artistic and Rehearsal Director: Luisa Sancho Escanero
Choreographic Assistant: Shelley Stolpner
Dramaturgy: Annabelle Köhler
Dance Ensemble of the Pfalztheater:
Rune Leysen | Evan Macrae Williams | Yan Jun Chin
Maayan Goren | Camilla Orlandi | Teade Abma | Camilla Marcati
Shelley Stolpner
PREMIERE:
31.5
FURTHER DATES:
5.6, 13.6, 24.6, 29.6, 12.7
Tickets
Trailer 1​