Ort / Un-Zeit
Antonio de Rosa & Mattia Russo (Kor'sia) / Helge Letonja

The Spanish choreography collective Kor'sia deals with dance as an artistic possibility to break down and comment on the behaviour of human society. In their latest choreography, which they are developing with the dancers of Of Curious Nature, the two choreographers Antonio de Rosa & Mattia Russo determine the place - or rather the non-place - as the starting point of their creative process. For Kor'sia, non-places are spaces of mere transit in which people remain anonymous - spaces without relationships such as underground stations, multi-storey car parks, motorways, petrol stations. Places of encounter that nevertheless do not allow encounters. In these places, we need tools to become active: Passport, boarding pass, shopping list - points of reference in places of passage, suspended between point of departure and point of arrival. Kor'sia questions these un-places for their possibilities: Can they be changed or reinterpreted through new narratives?

Helge Letonja, artistic director of OCN, is developing UN-ZEIT, the second choreography for this new dance evening. UN-ZEIT follows the perception that individual time is atomising and accelerating. This rubs off on the state and cohesion of society. Trust and a sense of community are dissipating and crises and conflicts are becoming more frequent. Individuals seem to drift into parallel time worlds in which they are spatially connected but can no longer find a common level with each other. Letonja takes Symphony No.4 (Tansman Episodes) by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki as a musical reference point. Inspired by the power of the music, he formulates a contemporary dance language as a counterpoint to it with the expressive dancers of the ensemble. UN-ZEIT uses dynamic choreography to describe the current drama of a turning point in time and searches for reliability and support in intimate moments.