Tangents

// Artistic Installation
Fri, 2 Sept 2022, 9 and 10 pm
Sat, 3 Sept 2022, 8.30, 9.30, 10.30 and 11.30 pm
Bauhaus Building, workshop room 2.20, 2nd floor

The human being as a synthesis of organism and mechanism is at the centre of every stage event in Oskar Schlemmer’s work. In his Bauhaus dances, it correlates with the formal stage elements of space, form, colour, light and matter. Ensemble Atemzug associates Bauhaus dances such as the glass, metal, hoop and pole dances with contemporary circus aesthetics and makes Schlemmer’s fascination and vision for the mechanical visible. Recalling Schlemmer’s clown figures, the human in the body finds its way into the performance installations. Atemzug asks what synthesis constitutes today’s human being and how circus art can contribute to a change of perspective on our world.

Direction and Dramaturgy:
Jenny Patschovsky, Cox Ahlers, Benjamin Richter

Performance and Creation:
Milena Schulz, Noah Rees, Johann Eggebrecht, Sebastian Gonzales

Music (cello):
Elisabet Iserte

Costumes:
Marcus Barros Cardoso