Performance: October 21st, 2010, 8pm
at Heilig Kreuz Church in Kreuzberg

Inspired by the books The Empire of Signs of Roland Barthes and the novelle Auraof Carlos Fuentes, this dance piece combines images from both books interpreting time in a non linear way. Starting from Ikebana and some topics of Japanese aesthetics, the dancers perform different images in a fluent sequence of movements. The piece presents an atmosphere of remembrance, overlapping past and present. Both dancers coincide in one character, Aura, as the personification of a woman who lives in a present-past time. The minimalistic sounds of Preslav Literary School and the live Hang-performance of Tivadar Nemesi intensify the multidimensional time feeling of the piece.

The initial version of AURA was presented at the Cultural Centre of Smederevo in Serbia, in June 2009.
During the Pattosofiranje Festival in Smederevo, AURA won the audience award.

For this occasion, the dance piece has been extended and adapted to the rooms of the church, emphazising round and spiral movements.

Lighting design: Katerina Valdivia Bruch
Lighting technician: Marco Uhlmann

With kind support of Theaterhaus Mitte

Address:
Heilig Kreuz Kirche Kreuzberg
Zossener Str. 65,
10961 Berlin

Organised by Akanthus Kulturmanagement

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