Dance
Gezeiten
US Premiere
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz
German choreographer Sasha Waltz (Impromptus, 2005 Next
Wave; Körper, 2002 Next Wave) returns to BAM with a work
that calls on the deepest emotional and physical reserves of her
dancers. Gezeiten (Tides), an unsparing dance about the
helplessness of humans in the face of disaster, opens after a
cataclysmic event has taken place, and all that is left is the
temporary refuge of a room.
An apocalyptic undercurrent keeps the dance on edge as tender
exchanges are rendered futile against impending doom. Smoke billows
from the floor. The outside world seeps in. And the dancers'
movements, frantically trying to stay on balance, grow ever more
intense. Heart-stopping, challenging, and at times hard to watch,
Gezeiten asks, when all is about to be lost, what keeps
hope alive?
Music by Jonathan Bepler and Johann Sebastian Bach
Stage design by Thomas Schenk and Sasha Waltz
Costume design by Beate Borrmann
Lighting design by Martin Hauk
Produced in association with Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz,
Berlin.
Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
(Capital City Fund for Culture).