VA WÖLFL / NEUER TANZ
ICH SAH: DAS LAMM AUF DEM BERG ZION, OFFB. 14, 1
DO/THUR - 25.02.2010 - 18.00
FR/FRI - 26.02.2010 - 20.00
„There are no good guns, there are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people. The problem is what you are going to see is ein Opfer - a sacrifice. Dance is a business. Business is an Art. Art is a problem. Business is a Dance. Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face. We are not boring because we are fashionable. We know that it is not good for your morals to see bad dancing or to see bad art. Do it the hard way and it‘s easy sailing. Dress me slow because I‘m in a hurry. Flow my tears with NEUER TANZ“
Men in suits enter onto the stage with empty expressions. A voice bathes the audience in the emotive tones of a song by John Dowland – even if these notes do not come directly out of the „singer‘s“ mouth, but are emitted from the loudspeakers. It is the revolver which controls events, fingers on the trigger. It is as if man has lost control over the weapon, and it is forcing him to his knees. Artifice is presented as being cooly chic, in the presence of appearance and reality. In this ballet performance VA Wölfl and his ensemble drive home the point, literally and metaphorically, taking the mannerisms of film killers to the extreme. VA Wölf‘s work is continually exploring new ways of identifying patterns of perception, without directly reflecting reality.
The Düsseldorf Ensemble NEUER TANZ has existed for more than 20 years under VA Wölfl, who studied painting with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg and photography under Otto Steinert at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. VA Wölfl is a nationally and internationally renowned figurehead in the contemporary dance scene, winner of the World- Wide-Video-Award (The Hague, 1982), the First German Producers‘ Prize for Choreography (1995), and of the Critics‘ Prize 2006. He held the position of Guest Professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Science in Gießen in 1999 and was made a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin in 2007. In 2008 VA Wölfl was nominated as choreographer for the Faust Award, ensemble member Izaskun Abrego Olano in 2009.
Chor(e)ographie | Choreography VA Wölfl
Ensemble Izaskun Abrego Olano, Armin Biermann, Alfonso Bordi, Jana Griess, Nicholas Mansfield, Senem Gökçe Ogultekin, Dr. Guido Orgs, Edgar Sandoval Díaz, Yuki Takimori, Susanna Keye, Peter Bellinghausen, Jürgen Grohnert, Thomas Schneider, Stefan Fuss, Claudia Bisdorf, VA Wölfl
Gefördert durch | Supported by Ministerpräsident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Stadt Düsseldorf, Kunststiftung NRW, Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Düsseldorf, Defence Systems & Equipment international London / Waffenmesse, Ruhr 2010, NEUER TANZ
Dauer | Running time 70 min.
Photographie | Photography © VA Wölfl