Orbis

In the organizer's words:

"It is a daring undertaking to subject the magic of the sensory world to a dissection of its elements."
-Alexander von Humboldt

With its insights into cosmology and mechanics, the Baroque era created the image of the universe as a delicate clockwork. Choreographer Paula Rosolen takes up this baroque understanding of the world in order to radicalize and deconstruct it from the perspective of our contemporary attitude to life. We experience the rapid pace of technological development and the constant flood of information as a continuous acceleration of the same old thing, in which we sometimes feel like a cog in a wheel. It causes us dizziness and at the same time a feeling of stagnation, whereby we increasingly question the certainty of our place in the world.

In a continuous dance of contrasts, history and contemporaneity combine in "Orbis" to create a hypnotic kaleidoscope in which the boundaries between eras and their styles become blurred: between movements based on baroque floor motifs and dance notations, animals and machines of a futuristic nature appear. Contrasting images converge in a constantly changing circular system in which the slightest change can lead to unpredictable results. In the maelstrom of disorientation, a new space of possibility of timelessness and universal connection with the world opens up, in which man is constantly evolving in a network of infinite coincidences.

The Baroque era, with its insights into cosmology and mechanics, created the image of the universe as a delicate clockwork. The choreographer Paula Rosolen takes up this baroque understanding of the world in order to radicalize and deconstruct it from the perspective of our present-day attitude to life. We experience the rapid pace of technological progess as well as the constant flood of information as a continuous acceleration of the always-same, in which we sometimes feel like a cog in a wheel. It causes us dizziness and at the same time a feeling of stagnation, whereby we increasingly question our certainty about our place in the world.

In a continuous dance of opposites, history and contemporaneity combine in Orbis to form a hypnotic kaleidoscope in which the boundaries between eras and their styles become blurred: between movements that follow baroque floor motifs and dance notations, animals and machines of a futuristic character appear. Contrasting images converge in a constantly changing circular system in which the slightest change can lead to unpredictable results. In the maelstrom of disorientation, a new possibility space of timelessness and universal connection with the world thus opens up, in which mankind is incessantly evolving in the web of infinite contingencies.

Duration: approx. 70 min, no break