DANCE GUEST PERFORMANCE

Dark Red

Rosas
Photo: Anne van Aerschot
Dance
Kolumba Museum
14 until 20 SEP 2020
daily from 12 until 5 pm
Kolumba, the art museum of the archbishopric of Cologne, sees itself as an aesthetic laboratory in which presentation formats are continuously reflected upon and experimentally implemented. The museum became well-known for its transhistorical and cross-media exhibitions. The exhibition »Das kleine Spiel zwischen dem Ich und dem Mir« (The Little Game between the I and the Me) takes the dance performance off the stage and into the museum's action space in order to bring the different expressive possibilities of the various art forms into contact and to offer the chance to experience overarching questions: How can a body be rendered? What is the significance of a specific architecture in contrast to the stage space for the unfolding and experience of corporeality?
As a prelude and integral part of the exhibition, the Belgian choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will stage a piece especially created for this venue, being shown over the course of a week during regular opening hours. »The Dark Red Project« creates a space of mutual inspiration based on the number 12: a dodecahedron formed by 12 regular pentagons; the 12 parts of Salvatore Sciarrino's »L’Opera Per Flauto«; 12 male dancers; the 12 apostle paintings by El Greco.

In this piece, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker focuses on modern science. In the empty museum building with its labyrinthine rooms, one can hear Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton arguing about gravitation, the nature of time and space, and the binarism of things. The silence in the rooms of the museum is broken at regular intervals by the physical sonority of the »Opera per Flauto« by the Italian composer Sciarrino, which specific breathing techniques reveal the return of the human body. Where otherwise pieces of art inhabit the space, bodies of dancers now come into play, making the logic of mathematics and geometry visible. The project simultaneously emphasises the body's relationship to nature, in all its fragility and humility. This finds expression in de Keersmaeker's choreographic interpretation of Albrecht Dürer's »Melancholia I« - as an abyss where the impossibility of the total comprehensibility and control of nature is revealing itself. The impact of melancholy on the space creates a dialogue with the location Kolumba, which is characterised by the interplay of architectural fragments from different times and the museum building by Peter Zumthor in a unique way. The 12 dancers of ROSAS are accompanied by 2 musicians of the ICTUS Ensemble.
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
music: Chrissy Dimitriou & Michael Schmid
costume: Lila John, Ester Manas & Heide Vanderieck
technical management: Marlies Jacques

More information on the proceeding


There are no tickets sold in advance. The normal entry price for the museum (€ 8 / € 5 ) is applicable. »Dark Red« is spread over the whole opening hours of the museum. The museum halls can be entered and left continuously throughout the performance. Entry only upon wearing of face masks and exclusively for single persons or families (no groups). Please note that due to the current corona virus situation, waiting times might occur due to the limited amount of visitors allowed. We kindly ask you for your understanding to this regard. Please visit the official website of the KOLUMBA museum to find out about potential changes. For more information, visit www.kolumba.de
cooperation
A cooperation between KOLUMBA and Tanz Köln in the context of the exhibition
»Das kleine Spiel zwischen dem Ich und dem Mir« (The Little Game between the I and the Me)

Cast
Boštjan Antončič
Thomas Vantuycom
Michael Pomero
José Paulo dos Santos
Frank Gizycki
Jason Respillieux
Robin Haghi
Mark Lorimer
Igor Shyshko
Carlos Garbin
Jakub Truszkowski
Rafael Galdino Dos Santos