MEDIATHEK

A three-part study of the suffering and exultant body for seven dancers, including a circus performer, based on the paintings of Robert Mapplethorpe, Caravaggio, and Francis Bacon. The first part takes a classical look at the body in a sequence that gives priority to working on the individual and difference. This is achieved by the coexistence of dynamically different solos and duets that are treated head-on, by a series of stills and flashes. Next comes the body seen from a Baroque perspective, moving in a group, marked by theatrical expression and dramatised by light. Last comes the body, still the same body, exposed in a contemporary manner, seen through its tensions, disorientation, ruptures, and frenzied energy.(Thor)(RS)