The artists have developed the core of this performance in Australia's desert landscape working there with Land Art and video. The energy deriving from colouring the body is the theme they are expressing with actions and videosculpture to the livemusic of violinist Harald Kimmig.The audience dresses in papersuits for their protection and experiences the transformation of a nearly sterile space around them into a highly sensuous landscape through the actions of the performers utilizing colours. Colour pigments being beaten into the body of the performer and the dancer beginning her dance with dipping her head into a bucket of blue colour call for strong imagery. A videosculpture shows compositions of coloured bodyparts and of desert landscapes connecting the live rituals. Inspired by the dust and intensity of the Australian desert and deriving from the confrontation with the culture of its former aboriginal inhabitants a ritual is performed stimulating archaic energy and connecting it to modern times and technology.
Kölner Stadt- Anzeigerby Basil Nikitakis“It is a calm clearly structured performance focusing with hard contrasts the symbolic and archaic power of colour bringing it into context with the rituals of the Australian Aboriginals. When at the end she dips her head into a bucket with fluid colour, when her body gets more and more coloured with every spin of her body, when finally dark blue colour streams from her mouth like blood, some definitions start to slip: civilisation and wilderness, body and colour, motion and stillness.” Kölner Stadt- Anzeigerby Christoph Hennes“The beginning of Dance in Blue was surprising and visually intense. A solodance performance of classically trained dancer Britta Lieberknecht. In the course of the Performance the rest of the colour inside the bucket created a piece of visual art made by dancing. The blue became the medium of the motion. The exhilarating combination of surprising radicality with dance asthetics in calm and powerfully flowing movements in this performance was surely the highlight of the program “Eiszeit” of the Kunstverein Köln rechtsrheinisch.” |
KANGA-FUCKIN-ROODanceinstallation with videosculpture
Duration: 90 Min.
Nominated for the Cologne Dancetheater Award SPACE ca. 200 sqm ideal
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