Love, Death and the Devil

Campaign: practise seeing beauty

Image 2: The Dark Chamber

In the second image of his five-part-series the choreographer creates an eerie world, a locus terribilis of melancholy and death wish. The production plays with light and shadow, and with a black humour that fails to provide relief for the three dancers that meander towards a rendezvous with devil and death.

“The Dark Chamber” too follows the series’ credo “Campaign: practise seeing beauty”: immersed in white light and deep shadow the sadistic joy for the daemonic shines in abysmal fascination.

Choreography/Concept: Ben J. Riepe; With: Linda Nordström, Evgeny Pankratov, Justin Yep; Costumes: Anna Kleihues; Music / Arrangement: Alex Alves Tolkmitt

Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ with funds of the Tanzplans Deutschland of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Kulturamt Düsseldorf, the Kunststiftung NRW, the steptext dance project, Bremen, the tanzhaus nrw, Productiehuis Brabant, Musiklab Brabant, Station Zuid, Tillburg, the van Meeteren Stiftung and Artsite.

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