Bert Gstettner presents his new full-length choreography
Satyr*Icons (including his Solo Z*reus and a new trio)
Photos: Tanz*Hotel / Otto Jekel
première: January 23rd 2005
performances: 25th till 29th January 2005
location: wuk theatre, 1090 Wien, Währinger Straße 59
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choreographer/dancer Bert Gstettner
dancers Indira Nunez, Eva Török, Tanja Pastonjicki, Bert Gstettner | music Robert Spour, Maria Tanase, Bernard Parmegiani
costume-designers Hanna Adlaoui-Mayerl, Nina Lepilina | stage/light-designers Gernot Sommerfeld, Bert Gstettner|
production Tanz*Hotel / Art*Act
Zagreus sits inside your head,
Zagreus lives among the dead,
Zagreus sees you in your bed,
And eats you when you're sleeping
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Fascinated and inspired by the amoral divine freebooter Dionysos, Tanz*Hotel sets out on the trail, leading it back to the mythical tradition and to the present disguises of its eternal, vagabonding protagonist Zagreus / Dionysos. A mirror(reflection) bursts: dismemberment, dissipation – fragmentation – and motivates an imaginary expedition, which unearths grotesque and irritating, paradoxical and poetical discoveries.
The trio multiplies the fragmentation. A fictitious ethnological puzzle, which needs being rejoined together into an entire complex. But its reintegration produces hybrid creatures halfway between human beings and beasts or robots, which playfully transform the species borderlines. Bert Gstettner choreographs a ritual world of high artificiality, to which the natural still adheres – as a kind of primary matter.
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