sinnestaumel is the second production of the long-term working cycle “Early Music & Contemporary Dance” started in 2020 and is taking place within the series “Tetra Bach – Four Positions on Bach” initiated by Folkert Uhde Konzertdesign. Three sonatas from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019” prepare the ground and are the driving kinetic force for an unusual encounter between two proven specialists in historical performance practice: Midori Seiler on the Violin and Christian Rieger on the Harpsichord, as well as the dancers Tian Gao, Renate Graziadei and Abraham Iglesias Rodriguez.

Body, space and music are the artfully entwining “voices” of sinnestaumel. In front of the audience’s eyes and ears they merge into an exciting dance performance. Along the musical richness of Bach’s sonatas and with the music as driving force of movement, the five performers unfold into something continually nascent; not narrative, but in vital recognition, irritating and fascinating at the same time. In endless, vortex like variations, they are suggesting associative spaces, moods and characters and oscillate between hope, longing, melancholy, joie de vivre and reverie. In the atmospherically rich room of St. Elisabeth’s Church the audience is invited to experience how lyricism and drama, humor and grotesque mingle to shine a light on humanity’s poetical power through dance and music.
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