Lab_Works: Half Life

Address Behrenstr. 55-57, Berlin
Theatre company Staatsballett Berlin
Venue's website www.komische-oper-berlin.de
Author Sharon Eyal (Choreographie)

In October and November 2022 Lab_Works | Half Life - Choreographies of the Staatsballett Berlin will be performed at the Komische Oper Berlin.

The natural urge to master crises with the means of dance and to reflect one's own existence artistically demanded expressive possibilities during the pandemic times and is still undiminished today: Under the title LAB_WORKS, works are brought to the stage that are created in the ensemble of the Staatsballett Berlin. The choreographers are given the necessary framework to develop new works, to let existing works appear in a new light and under different auspices, an ongoing experiment that is just as desired.

The program includes choreographies that open up a wide spectrum of dance languages, as diverse as the dancers of the ensemble themselves and their desire to make their individual, emotional side of the dance profession accessible to the audience. In the second part of the program, Sharon Eyal's hit piece HALF LIFE, in the repertoire of the Staatsballett Berlin since 2018, arrives on the stage of the Komische Oper Berlin. With her way of choreographically asking probing questions and setting uncomfortable situations in motion, Sharon Eyal forces her interpreters and her audience to discard thought patterns and habits. Her creations challenge the dancers' physicality, demanding everything from them physically and mentally in order to achieve individual expression. Pulsating and hypnotic is the power that not only the performers want to explore again and again, but that also fascinates the audience. A dance evening could not be more contemporary.

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