Love, Death and the Devil

Campaign: practise seeing beauty

Image 4: The White Chamber

The matrix of the series, the concentrated perspective on the basic questions of human existence within the laboratory of hyperreal spaces of art, leads to a dense scenario of physical and mental states of emergency in Image 4: The White Chamber. The dancers embody elusive as well as shocking, comical, melancholical and explosive states with intense presence, dance, voice and language. Breakdowns and violent fits are being broken by comical laughter, the white chamber being a symbol of space that needs to be filled. The pace is fast, process and effect instantaneous; irony lurks behind drama, everyday life is being transformed into art scenes and vice versa. After the deadly complot in the Chessboard Room (image 1), a meeting with the devil in the Dark Chamber (image 2), the abysms and profanities of love in Image 3, the fourth image now shows clash of these elements in The White Chamber.

Concept/Choreography: Ben J. Riepe; with: Fa-Hsuan Chen, Deborah Gassmann, Swanhild Kruckelmann, Julian Stierle; Music: Alex Alves Tolkmitt; Costumes: Anna Kleihues; Lighting: Dimitar Evtimov

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.

Photos: Ursula Kaufmann

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