Fri 27.8 – Opening
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
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7 p.m.
Opening
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Open Stage
7.30 p.m.
On the threshold
// Dance performance
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Open Stage
Works by master's students of choreography at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden. The unifying theme of the dance performances, each lasting 10-15 minutes, is the question of situations and possibilities of coming closer and being together, which have taken on additional relevance in times of the Corona pandemic and lockdown.
Yamile Navarro (Mexico), Gábor Halász with Mónika Kertész (Hungary), Yuexuan Gui (China), Brian Scalini with Chiara Amato (Italy), Parisa Mousavi (Iran).
Part 1:
"Connectedness"
Length: 10 minutes
Choreography and performance: Yuexuan Gui
"Cocoon"
Length: 09:30 minutes
Choreography: Brian Scalini
Dancer: Chiara Amato
Original music: Adam Sojka
Costume design: Christian Kern, Brian Scalini
8 p.m.
Adolphe Appia, the rhythmic gymnastics of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and the Bauhaus
// Film discussion
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Open Stage
Torsten Blume in conversation with Katharina Christl (choreographer, head of the choreography course at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden) with excerpts from the film project "Adolphe Appia and Dance" by Niels Bolbrinker and Gerburg Fuchs.
In 1912, the stage designer Adolphe Appia created the famous Appia stage for the Festspielhaus Dresden-Hellerau and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's school of rhythmic gymnastics there. In their film project, Niels Bolbrinker and Gerburg Fuchs investigate how this stage established a new freedom of movement for dancers, actors and musicians. They show how this project was groundbreaking for the performing arts of the 20th century and how it also shaped the stage experiment at the historic Bauhaus. In a discussion with the choreographer Katharina Christl after the film, the inspiration and effect of the Appia stage for choreographic and dance projects will be explained.
8.30 p.m.
Cello Variations by Gerald Manske
to "Lichtspielhaus" by Lucy Raven
// Colour music
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Open Stage
In 2018, the New York artist Lucy Raven had won the invitation competition "Kunst am Bau" for the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, which will open in 2019. The artist convinced the seven-member jury with her concept "Lichtspielhaus in Bewegung" – a dynamic light installation made of different coloured glass that interacts with the architecture of the emerging building by González Hinz Zabala (addenda architects). "The work introduces a new level, a '2nd curtain' of coloured glass panels artistically picks up on the architecture and further develops the design and usage possibilities of the museum foyer as an 'open stage'," the jury's statement read. The jury particularly emphasised the conceptual references to the Bauhaus, its stage and the colour studies of Josef Albers, as well as their opening to new media. As a cellist, Gerald Manske musically reinterprets the "Lichtspielhaus in Bewegung", the arrangement of which changes several times in the course of the performance. By using a composition by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack from 1922, he also interprets the "Lichtspielhaus" as a reminiscence of the "reflective colour light games" developed by Hirschfeld-Mack at the Bauhaus.
9 p.m.
On the threshold
// Dance performance and video production
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Open Stage
Works by Master's students of the choreography course at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden.
Yamile Navarro (Mexico), Gábor Halász with Mónika Kertész (Hungary), Yuexuan Gui (China), Brian Scalini with Chiara Amato (Italy), Parisa Mousavi (Iran).
Part 2:
"The Host"
Length: 11 minutes
Choreography: Brian Scalini
Performers: Chiara Amato, Brian Scalini
Music: Sketch VI_II Black Elk by .og lengra – Olafur
Arnalds by Scappa – Alessandro Cortini
"Bridging Dimension – The Recogniser"
Length: 15 minutes
Choreography, music and video: Gábor Halász
Mezzo-soprano: Monika Kertész
Dance: Gábor Halász
Followed by video projection (as a loop):
"Fall Asleep"
Length: 5 minutes
Video creation: Parisa Mousavi