every single day

every single day is a piece for 7 dancers, inspired by Albert Camus's Myth of Sisyphus. Absurdity is the conflict between the human desire for meaning or rather meaningful action and the senselessness of the world. Camus reinterpreted the myth – he described a human being, laden with heavy responsibility, who is nevertheless able to find meaning and even happiness in the permanent monotony of his everyday existence.

every single day is a choreography of contemplation, a poetic deliberation on the consistenty growing suspicion of the absurd. It drives everyday situation to the limits of the sur-real and allows deeply human traits to emerge. Toula Limnaios creates shifting images in constant motion resembling the cycle of life. Sisyphus symbolizes the daily challenge to do something “impossible”. The recurring monotony combines both hope and illusion. “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” (Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus)

A cie. toula limnaios production, supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Berlin and the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. Presented by: Berlin Poche, Neues Deutschland.

Performances:
HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN, July 29th – 31st + August 4th – 7th + 10th – 13th. 2011
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, August 26th – 27th, 2011
Tafelhalle Nuernberg, September 30th and Oktober 1st, 2011

reading tosca

reading tosca – an exciting new choreographic reading of the Puccini opera – is not a staging of this opera but rather a contemporary new composition in movement and sound.

In a polyphonic tableau the choreography unifies cruel poetry and discord, horrific images, sensitive portraits and increasingly ironic and critical reflections of society. Puccini’s composition is deconstructed and the smallest particles appear as though originating from a hidden space. Thus the music is also a poetic metaphor of fragility as well as a mirror of the opera’s inherent destructive power. Reality, desires and visions fall to pieces. Everything can be reversed into its opposite: violence, torture, feelings of powerlessness, uncertainty and desire are intertwined into a brutal world full of inner conflicts.

"To take one’s leave from clear understanding, cross an unseen border" and take a look at the dark side of our hearts... It is not a melodrama, but rather a search for subtleties, hidden things: trepidation, daring, passion, love, obsession, intrigue, manipulation, misuse of power and betrayal. These hidden dimensions are, however, subliminally present at every moment. It is a story that could repeat itself at any time, yesterday, today, always, tosca toujours. reading tosca: what is heard, dreamt, felt and projected. The borders in the body, space and time disappear, between them thousands of moments live, though the abyss is always vis-à-vis... Disconcertingly timeless: everything wants, everything fails.

reading tosca is a production for 7 dancer (4 women, 3 men). The co-production of the cie. toula limnaios, Kunst aus der Zeit  (Bregenz Festival), Bregenzer Frühling and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt/Main), premiered in May 2008 in Bregenz . After 11 sold out performances in Berlin (HALLE - TANZBÜHNE BERLIN), more performances take place in Frankfurt (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm August 21st - 24th, 2008) and Nuernberg (Tafelhalle, October 18th/19th, 2008).

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