cie. toula limnaios: »clair obscur«

In the organizer's words:

The starting point of "clair obscur" is the theme of shadows. The dance piece is an attempt to explore the complexity and multi-layered nature of shadows and their paradox, because shadows have many faces.

The hall is transformed into a two-part stage space. The two sides face each other like two sides of the same coin, like light and shadow, like day and night - one cannot exist without the other and that is how this work is composed: The two perspectives are inseparable and yet individually perceptible...

"See how this body casts its shadow and how dreams are born from it."
Henri Bosco

Who hasn't tried to catch their shadow while walking? Who hasn't wondered about this strange apparition that constantly accompanies us, but also always slips away? From Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" to Carl Gustav Jung's "Analytical Psychology" and the dream world of every human being, the shadow veils and reveals the secrets of the world.

But there are also shadows that conceal our existence. They unfold, act and live in silence. Shadows can have many names... They appear around the corner, in the unexpected and suddenly take possession of us. Shadowy sides that dwell within us and that we carry with us. Shadows that arise, full of doubt, full of illusions. They reach out to the visible world through our senses and take possession of the impermanent.

"In these shadowy phases, I am incapable of thinking, of feeling, of loving."
Fernando Pessoa