TANZTHEATER... Am 7. April 2016 hatte das Stück Momento in Bonn Premiere... Mich hat der unglaubliche Beat des DJ Franco Mento in seinen Bann gezogen.
The MOMENTUM creates a connection between the dancers and their audience through the palpable feeling of movement in a shared space. The dancers and the audience alike absorb the evolving kinetic energy, which becomes the driving element of the performance.
A feverish, pulsating beat surrounded by an austere, dark setting. Three chimerical figures appear from the vague darkness. Their movements are first hesitant and searching. A slight twist of the torso here, a sudden nod there, then slowly accelerating to a swaying, a twitch or a gyration of the entire body. None of these external proceedings reveal anything about the inner feelings. Only the rhythm and speed unite the movements in a structural dimension. The pure physical, sweat-inducing choreography and the fusion of light and sound are generating a hypnotic energy.
As in the previous pieces "Pieces of Me" and "What About Orfeo?", CocoonDance aims to create in its new production, MOMENTUM, a shared experience of space and movement for the dancers and spectators. In cooperation with DJ Franco Mento and the light designer Marc Brodeur, choreographer Rafaële Giovanola and her dancers Alvaro Esteban, Werner Nigg und Andi Xhuma are exploring the connections, similarities and emerging spaces of movement and being moved.