Here we list selected programs by the cie. toula limnaios:
| wound |
| les possédés |
| reading tosca |
| Concept/Choreography | Toula Limnaios |
| Music | Ralf R. Ollertz |
| Dance/Creation |
Mercedes Appugliese, Fleur Conlon, Kayoko Minami, Clebio Oliveira, Ute Pliestermann, Hironori Sugata |
| Costume | Antonia Limnaios, Toula Limnaios |
| Video | cyan |
| Light design | Maximilian Stelzl |
| Tecnical Director | Jan Langebartels |
| Assistent | Felipe Luck |
| Public Relations | Silke Wiethe |
“wound - between dream and trauma or the wounds of a butterfly…” - a choreographed dream as a disturbing revelation. You never see the entirety of it. Trauma - you close your eyes, the body feels as if detached - floating chimeras full of dream-splinters. The night turns to day. The pain of rousing oneself up from sleep retains a real connection in the waking consciousness.
Wounds rise up from the waking and the dreaming - trauma retains the injuries - releases the inner turmoil over and over within a gap in time: absurdities, thoughts, the uncanny and secret, the condensed, the misplaced, the distorted, echoes: Henri Michaux feels himself divided into a day and a night person. He calls the dreamer >>the other side of my self<<. The trauma is bound to its oscillating movement between recollection and oblivion, the present and the past. wound explores human vulnerability and its pain.
Dreams and nightmares, fragmentary and mysterious like in a labyrinth of injuries, they sleep in each of us like the Minotaur and scream for Ariadne to emerge, laying the invisible thread into reality that connects us with the world. Sleep begets monsters. It is in our nights that everything happens. Memories and repressed recollections scramble things and situations that happened to us by day: repetitions, childhood experiences, fears, secrets from the depths of our minds and desires – all, which we are not even able to articulate …
“If you know in a dream that you are dreaming then you’re about to wake up. I will wake up shortly. Maybe this fire is nothing but the first ray of the morning sun in another reality."
(Michael Ende)
Performances:
HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN, 14th-15th & 19th-22nd of November 2009
Musictheatre Balthoppen Kopenhagen, 30th of November - 1st of Dezember 2009
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main, 3rd-5th of December 2009
| Concept/Choreography | Toula Limnaios |
| Music | Ralf R. Ollertz |
| Dance/Creation |
Mercedes Appugliese, Fleur Conlon, Kayoko Minami, Clebio Oliveira, Ute Pliestermann, Hironori Sugata |
| Costume | Antonia Limnaios, Toula Limnaios |
| Light design | Maximilian Stelzl |
| Tecnical Director | Jan Langebartels |
| Assistent | Felipe Luck |
| Public Relations | Silke Wiethe |
The piece is based on the descriptions of various characters and inspired by Dostojevky’s psychological depictions of mankind. The characters are caught up in surreal, baffling and sinister situations. They are trapped, ensnared in a web of their own fear, stuck in-between self-confidence and uncertainty, desire and failure, power and abuse, idealism and fanaticism. Possessed by their inner demons, they open up a rift - sucked in, as if hypnotized, they discover the abyss behind the façade, masks of the everyday, appearances that crumble sooner or later.
Not the excessive, but the everyday night, behind which something sinister shimmers..., two steps further..., and the soul turns black..., the darkness is sometimes still far away, sometimes it already glitters in the shadows on the edge of the scenery - in silent accord - an insecure terrain - deeply threatening and elegantly conjured. An excavation - beautiful and eerie - of the fears and weaknesses of anxious hearts. A mysterious shadow lies over the events..., something could happen at any time..., not obvious and yet it is everywhere...
Performances:
HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN, 2nd-5th & 9th-12th of July 2009
Brasil Tour (Belo Horizonte/Fortaleza/Recife/Joao Pessoa), 13th-31st of October 2009
| Concept/Choreography | Toula Limnaios |
| Music | Ralf R. Ollertz |
| Dance/Creation |
Mercedes Appugliese, Fleur Conlon, Kayoko Minami, Roberto Zuniga Fallas, Clebio Oliveira, Ute Pliestermann, Hironori Sugata |
| Costume | Antonia Limnaios/Toula Limnaios |
| Light design | Klaus Dust |
| Public Relations | Silke Wiethe |
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 - TanzBuehne Berlin), more performances take place in Frankfurt (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm August 21st - 24th, 2008) and Nuernberg (Tafelhalle, October 18th/19th, 2008).
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