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2.Vodka Konkav (5.40min/ 1997): The conventional view of the stage is obstructed by a literallytaken fourth wall. The audience, seated in the traditional arrangement, can only see the action on stage through a crack at the top ot the wall, in variously aligned panes of reflective glass. The piece tells the story of the drinkter in the novel "Moskva-Petushki" by Venedikt Jerofejev, portraying the drunken man´s hallucination in a blend of video and dance. Amorphous, labyrinthine, inter-flowing figures and movements are created to the sound of dub music. The dance becomes two-dimensional and merges completely with the virtual images. This production was awarded the IMPULSE´97 theatre prize, and, with 53 performances achieved world-wide fame. 3.Glücksjohnny (a boat movie) (4.50min/1998): In Bertoldt Brecht´s short piece on gambling, the eponymous Johnny plays poker on an ocean liner, winning a fortune, but losing his life. Arranged like a poker game with 52 cards, "glücksjohnny" is based on the concept of the bluff. The cards are being constantly reshuffled on two-dimensional, multi-layered screen with video projections, light and bodies, voices and music. Luck hangs on the two legs of the dancer, Pina Bausch protagonist Mechthild Großmann, who lends her voice while eyes ander on the rocking deck. Here, film and dance are almost indistinguishable as befits the story´s ambiguity. 4.Cheshire Cat (a little revue) (7min/1999): The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll´s "Alice in Wonderland" gradually desappears before Alice´s eyes until all that i left is a sardonic grin. A grin without a cat. This short story told by Forsythe dancers becomes an optically intriguing work of autonomously dancing shadows and coninciding dance movements. This last, precisely choreographed video dance production created at Frankfurtßs Mousonturm blends images and movements, by means of a specially created mirror, into a DJ-driven, ironic revue, in which dancer CHris Hoh Chau Wah as Alice trumphs over deception in a lobster quadrille.