Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company
Tanzperformance zu Musik von Keith Jarrett und B.A. Zimmermann Britta Lieberknecht & Company

Space for your Imagination

Dance Performance to Music of Keith Jarrett and B.A. Zimmermann

Choreography: Britta Lieberknecht
Dance: Neus Barcons Roca, Kanako Minami, Sophia Ndaba, Paraskevi Terzi, Anais Van Eycken, Petra Van Gompel
Lighting Design: Marc Brodeur
Photos: Meyer Originals
Video Documentation: Monika Pirch

PR Design Banane Design Bremen

Music

Keith Jarrett: Exzerpts from the Paris Konzert and the Scala Konzert
B.A. Zimmermann: Tratto I, Stille und Umkehr, 4. Satz des Konzerts für Cello und Orchester, Konzert für Trompete und Orchester

Britta Lieberknecht & Company presents imaginative dance to contemporary music. Excerpts from Keith Jarrett’s Paris and Scala concerts meet pieces by B.A. Zimmermann. Both composers did not break away from old and classical music but rather built their form of new music upon it. Britta Lieberknecht showcases, through alternating sequences, not only the contrasts but also an astonishing harmony and interaction of these works. The six dancers powerfully and expressively portray images of female liberation and community. It is an ecstatic journey through fantasies, fueled by abstract dance language.

The choreography engages deeply with the music in strong imagery, allowing its humanity and emotion to emerge. As in her works set to Baroque music, Britta Lieberknecht’s dance interpretation spans from the interpretation of the smallest details to great freedom.

The six dancers pulse, caught in the safety of the group, just as a unit, now entangled with one another—different musical perspectives collide, as do characters and qualities of movement. Lyrical dances break into enigmatic, vibrating interactions, and explosive exchanges of energy collapse into delicate vibrations as the six dancers touch one another—tenderly, manipulatively, violently? B.A. Zimmermann’s warlike musical attack leaves behind a shattered landscape of bodies, while his jazzy exuberance pushes the dancers to their limits. It is a contrast bath of emotions, an exciting and wondrous journey through extremes that develops organically and unleashes imagination. And it concludes with an impressive rhythmic ritual.

“Space for your Imagination”- An invitation to the audience to follow their imagination and discover a unique world of dance and musical expression.

Teaser with music from Keith Jarret

Press Review

Press Quotation

„Neus Barcons Roca provides a fantastic start with a choreography in which every movement responds to Keith Jarrett’s ‘Paris Concert.’ Sound is translated into movement, a wonderful shift of media where the abstraction of sounds is not sacrificed for patterns of meaning.“

Press Quotation

“Instead of Baroque, as in the previous work, we now have New Music, which has inspired her to create one of her typical emotional movement compositions. Above all, the American pianist Keith Jarrett, known for his solo improvisations (notably “The Köln Concert” from 1975), structures the changing encounters of the dancers as individuals, in pairs, or as a cuddling group ball with his vivid musical language. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s ten-minute orchestral piece “Stille und Umkehr” is deeply moving. With whipping rhythms, he rides into warlike attacks against the farewell that the late work addresses – written shortly before Zimmermann’s suicide in 1970. The staccato drives the dancers to their limits, after which they sink exhausted into a powerful final image. Britta Lieberknecht is a purist when it comes to stage presentation, and so “Space” is primarily accentuated by light… This is both touching and frightening at the same time – and symbolizes exactly those poles that Britta Lieberknecht loves to pull on.”

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Exhausting Staccato
Britta Lieberknecht directs choreography to Jarrett and Zimmermann
Choreographer Britta Lieberknecht offers plenty of room for imagination to the audience in her new piece, aptly titled “Space for Your Imagination.” Currently, the Cologne-based artist is rehearsing with six dancers from around the world in her studio in the Gladbach industrial area of Britanniahütte, set to music by Keith Jarrett and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Dance enthusiasts have the opportunity to see the production as a preview under studio conditions before it premieres at the Alte Feuerwache in Cologne. “A delightful contrast,” the music lover expresses.

Instead of Baroque, as in her previous work, she now draws inspiration from contemporary music, which has led to one of her typical emotional movement compositions. Particularly, the American pianist Keith Jarrett, known for his solo improvisations (most notably “The Köln Concert” from 1975), structures the changing encounters of the dancers as individuals, in pairs, or as a cuddling group ball with his vivid musical language. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s ten-minute orchestral piece “Silence and Reversal” is deeply moving. With whipping rhythms, he rides into warlike attacks against the farewell that the late work addresses – written shortly before Zimmermann’s suicide in 1970. The staccato drives the dancers to their limits, who then sink exhausted into a powerful final image.
Britta Lieberknecht is a purist when it comes to stage presentation, and “Space” will primarily be accentuated by light, which Marc Brodeur is still working on. Unlike in “Shimmering Blue,” the previous production, “we don’t want any romantic color games,” he emphasizes, jotting down mathematical formulas in a notebook. It will be white, he considers. “I want to keep the focus on the women and their interactions” Lieberknecht also states. For the photo, she arranges a mother-child scene at a small table with tiny chairs and the two smallest dancers, who appear delicate like children and are moved by their two counterparts like puppets. This is both touching and unsettling—and symbolizes exactly the poles that Britta Lieberknecht loves to explore.

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