MEDIATHEK

With Radical Minimal, the Berlin-based Company Christoph Winkler explores the radical potential of minimal music and contemporary dance. In three choreographies, the team reinterprets three well-known pieces of minimal music: Come Out by Steve Reich, Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski and Stay on it by Julius Eastman. For each piece of music, a unique choreographic language is developed, through which the reception history of the pieces in music and dance as well as their respective connection to the U.S. civil rights movement becomes visible. Together with the Zafraan Ensemble and other international guest musicians, Company Christoph Winkler will present the three new interpretations in a joint live performance.

The approach is particularly impressive in the example of Steve Reich's Come out. The piece alienates the testimony of a young, African-American man who was arrested in the course of the Harlem riots in 1964, becoming a victim of police violence. The composition further alienates his voice through progressive sound layering; thus also anticipating the media propagation of racial violence cases, which is known, from the context of Black Lives Matters, among others. In Radical Minimal, the original context now becomes visible through a choreographic exploration by Adebajo Oluwafemi Israel and Rasheed Ridwan (The Future of Dance Company).

/ CAST & CREDITS/

CONCEPT: Christoph Winkler 

MUSIC: Zafraan Ensemble 

FLUTE: Liam Mallett 

SAXOPHONE: Martin Posegga 

CLARINET: Miguel Pérez Iñesta 

PERCUSSION: Daniel Eichholz 

PIANO: Clemens Hund-Göschel 

VIOLIN: Emmanuelle Bernard 

VIOLA: Josa Gerhard 

VIOLONCELLO: Martin Smith 

BY + WITH: Oluwafemi Israel Adebajo, Lisa Rykena, Aloalii Tapu, Ridwan Rasheed, Raha Nejad, Sophie Prins, Andromeda Gervasio 

VIDEO EDITING: Gabriella Fiore 

VIDEO CONTRIBUTION: Vadim Epstein, Matthias Härtig 

COSTUMES: Marie Akoury 

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Fabian Eichner 

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Laura Biagioni

A production by Company Christoph Winkler in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Federal Cultural Foundation with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Media partner: taz, die Tageszeitung.

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