WHIRLING LADDER | BETWEEN
It is being different, becoming different. A process whose supposed simplicity reveals nothing about the final result.
-- Tanzweb.de
54 minutes, 2 Dancers
09.06.21, 19:00 (Video on Demand) in the First and Further Steps series, Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld, DE (World premiere)
10.06.21 19:00 (Video on Demand)
06.10.21 20:00 Rheinfach Festival, Cologne, DE
07.10.21 20:00 Rheinfach Festival, Cologne, DE
09.10.21 20:00 MOVE! Festival Krefeld, DE
WHIRLING LADDER | BETWEEN, an experimental dance duo from YIBU Dance, not only shows the compelling interaction of human bodies, but also the indissoluble connection between body and space-time and ultimately between dance and viewer. For this, the choreographers Chun Zhang and Kai Strathmann interweave the Chinese martial art Wing Chun and the geometry of DNA base pairs with artistic precision.
The base pair geometry serves as a blueprint for 16 ways to move as a pair. Micro-movements on a genetic level become the model for the actual movements of the duo, which - as in Wing Chun - are centered, minimalistic and absolutely efficient. The two dancers transfer their understanding of relationships and interaction into so-called space-time. Stylistically precise, the micro-movements of the dancers and the minimalist media fill the stage. Spacetime unfolds, shadows and lights begin to dance, filling the space with layers and patterns.
WHIRLING LADDER | BETWEEN invites the audience to experience the magic of relationships, of listening and compassion and to ask: What is valuable left when time and energy are used up? What remains tangible between the audience and the dance?
Concept, dance, choreography, light and stages, costumes: Chun Zhang & Kai Strathmann
Music: Kai Strathmann
Technique: Dirk Mattern
Public relations: neurohr & andrä GbR
Funded by: Performing Arts Fund from funds from the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR with the programs #TakeThat and #TakeCare, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the “Auf geht's!” Scholarship program, city's cultural office Krefeld.