Event

An evening with the UnterwegsTheater:

On Saturday, KlangForum Heidelberg will be performing as a special guest at Hebelhalle, providing the musical programme for the first half of the evening. The encounter between dance and contemporary music creates new perspectives on space, body and sound – immediate, alert and without autopilot.
Hebelhalle provides the perfect setting for this: a place for experimentation, openness and intense artistic experiences.

A short song program by our soprano Clémence Boullu, accompanied by J. Marc Reichow on the piano, ranges from Camille Saint-Saëns' wordless Nightingale and Viktor Ullmann's settings of five-hundred-year-old sonnets by Louize Labé to Cathy Berberian's legendary “Stripsody,” a vocal performance with comic book texts.
In addition, our percussionist Boris Müller will perform the work “Lithosphere” (= the stone shell of the earth). It deals with the sounds that can be produced with stones or that arise spontaneously, i.e., randomly, everywhere on earth (rockfalls, landslides, the retreat of a wave on a pebble beach, etc.). It is not a written composition, but a solo improvisation for a drummer.
All materials/instruments are collected/built by the performer.

Boris Müller himself writes:
It all began with collecting (sound) materials and experimenting with them:
The instruments/materials are struck and also rubbed to produce sustained sounds.
What sounds can be produced/improved in which direction and, above all, how can they be made available at any time using suitable mallets and rubbing utensils? The stone arsenal includes pebbles of various sizes (some of them quite large!), stone slabs (tiles), shells/snail shells (i.e., organic material, which for simplicity's sake I also count as (limestone) rock). The pebbles were made “tunable” or (the large ones) transformed into a stone guiro.
In addition, there were instruments that produce sounds similar to those of the stones: chimes made of hundreds of shells/nut or bean shells, which produce a rustling sound when struck, a deep wooden drum, and a deep wooden sound as pedal instruments to make the soundscape more diverse. I put the whole thing together into a variable and self-contained setup and explored its possibilities through playing and improvising. The rest is (hopefully) music!

The second half of the evening will be performed by the dance company of UnterwegsTheater:
Lightness is an attitude that is aware of one's own strength and nourishes it by remaining in motion. “On the Fly” describes an attitude towards life without solid ground beneath one's feet, full of highs and lows, without autopilot, but with complete trust in the team.
Together with dancers Stavros Apostolatos, Neve Arbel, Yu-Yuan Huang, Nikos Grigoriadis, and Hsin-I Huang, choreographer Jai Gonzales takes off into the open, overcomes gravity, encounters headwinds, and recognizes tailwinds. Boundaries are flown over in order to grasp concrete possibilities and create something new in the seemingly endless expanse.
The pieces of the UnterwegsTheater are lived utopias, open-hearted and at the same time focused on the essentials, created from work processes in which reflection is always connected with doing.

In 1988, dancer Jai Gonzales and trained acrobat Bernhard Fauser didn't spend much time looking for favorable starting conditions. Instead, they got straight to work creating dance pieces that gained international recognition and expanding a rehearsal stage where some of today's globally active choreographers presented their first pieces. An international network grew, and the entire city became increasingly involved with ARTORT in public spaces. Numerous collaborations followed, including the 2012 merger with the municipal theater to form TANZAllianz, which made Heidelberg a dance city known throughout Germany.

Further information here.