UNFOLDING
OCTOBER 11th - 12th 20:00
TANZMAINZ
For many years, Philippe Kratz was one of the most influential dancers in the Italian showpiece company Aterballetto. Today, after the end of his active career as a dancer, he uses this toolbox to develop his very own choreographic signature as a highly regarded up-and-coming choreographer. In 2014, 2017 and 2022, the magazine TANZ recognized Philippe Kratz as one of the most remarkable persons in the dance field. The Italian magazine Danza&Danza named him Choreographer of the Year in January 2020. “Unfolding” is a ten-minute gem that he developed with a quartet from the tanzmainz ensemble. The very precise, idiosyncratic body language, which requires a high level of technical skill from the dancers, unfolds in constant relation to the space. The repertoire of highly complex solos develops into an artful, intricate group with increasing intensity and linearity. Graphics of the body in high perfection - that is Philippe Kratz.
© Andreas Etter
PROMISE
OCTOBER 11th - 12th
TANZMAINZ
Sharon Eyal is an internationally reknowned choreographer and for many her unmistakable signature is almost iconic. She demands the extraordinary from the ensemble in dance, combining ballet physicality with electronic music. After “Plafona Now” and the internationally highly successful “Soul Chain”, “Promise” is Sharon Eyal’s third world premiere with tanzmainz and the continued development of her virtuoso skills. Over six weeks the Jerusalem-born choreographer worked with seven dancers in an extremely intensive process. In this creation she has taken the complex interplay of discipline and devotion, the magical formula of dance, to the extreme.
On stage, a group of people are intrinsically linked to each other, sometimes even as a single body. Figures in a shadowy world at each other’s mercy - confinement and love, closeness and longing, ecstasy and loneliness - everything seems to blur and yet is clearly discernible in precious brief moments. Sharon Eyal’s latest work is the result of a permanent reduction of all means. Even more than in her previous pieces, “Promise” is like a dream. Almost unreal images disappear as quickly as they came, having etched themselves into the viewer’s brain. 50 minutes as a glimpse of eternity...
© Andreas Etter
