// Productions

KILLER LOOP

// Premiere: 5th September 2008, Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn

// In collaboration with Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn

// In co-production with O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) / Tanztheater Leipzig / LOFFT Leipzig

// Powered by: Kunststiftung NRW / Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. / Bundesstadt Bonn / Ministerpräsident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen / NRW Landesbüro Freie Kultur / Le Conseil de la Culture Etat du Valais

// Created and danced by

Viviana Escalé, Volkhard Samuel Guist, Martin Inthamoussú, Juray Korec, Erich Rudolf /// Video: Axel Largo /// Original Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff /// Lighting and Stage design: Marc Brodeur /// Costumes: Sabine Schnetz /// Concept and Direction: Rainald Endraß /// Choreography and Direction: Rafaële Giovanola

How does one explain the unexplainable? Is there an idea, an original aspect that sets people off to murder repeatedly, that makes them serial killers? Is it the hunger for more that haunts society that motivates the serial killer and makes them strive for short-time satisfaction through repetition of their murders?

Serial killers themselves describe their deeds as repetitions that make them happy. Repetition as movement, this is performance, theatre – the theatre of the serial killer is a “theatre of cruelty”. But what is the appeal of their production? Why needs our modern global society this most shocking and most insufferable of all human anti-heores?

With their performance “KILLER LOOP”, Cocoondance tries to get onto the trail of the serial killer – who has become a media superstar thanks to the pursuit of the series – and to make a connection between the search for happiness and the behaviour of the serial killer, and not to separate this behaviour from what is humanely possible.

// PRESS REVIEWS

"The high level of this productions’ abstraction is soundly grounded by the five fantastic dancers, who oppose the cold-hearted cynicism of the basic situation with something very human by revealing accompanied to the minimalistic sounds by Jörg Ritzenhoff a high variety of diverse emotions and moods such as vanity, anger, fear, insecurity and helplessness. At the same time, however, they show humour and wit, for example when they imitate virtuously Madonna’s video “Hung Up”. The extreme bodily performance of the dancers is of admirable precision, and not just in this instance. The movie-like conception of “Killer Loop” is not limited to quotations and allusions, but is connected to the choreography in an intelligent manner. They work with flashbacks, scenes are played backwards, slowed-down or fast-forwarded. Impressive is the manner in which Rafaële Giovanola integrates the doubling of reality by the use of a manual camera. The performance ends with a shock. But this is not the only reason why the production will linger in our memories for a long time."
(General-Anzeiger, Bonn, 8.09.2008)

"A perfect ambivalence: Moments of bliss alternate with moments of baseness and cruelty. The husband-and-wife team of artists Rafaële Giovanola and Rainald Endrass have thus accomplished a well-composed master piece. A sensitive and at the same time merciless approach to the topic, which offers the audience room for interpretations and makes them start to think through the offer of a huge variety of aspects."
www.kultur-in-bonn.de – Theater, 08.09.2008

"This is a game with serial motives: in the highly associative and imaginative composition by Jörg Ritzenhoff as well as in the physical-gruff dance by Giovanola and in the scenic happening. (…) Repetition as need: our rituals, our efforts to bring structure to our daily lives through repetition. Giovanola’s choreography uses the principles of repetition and variation intelligently."
Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 13.09.2008

 

 

// Material
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