2003 Dual.Bodies

Tanztage: The Old Dream of Flying
Berliner Morgenpost, January 18, 2003

The old ceiling of the Sophiensäle is brightly illuminated. Even before the audience has quieted down, a white cloth attached to thick ropes unfurls from one gallery to the other. As the gurgling music begins, the nest of cloth starts moving slightly. A head looks down from the giddy height. A woman’s body emerges like a spider in a web, twisting and turning and almost seeming to float. On the wall huge shadows crawl up and down like Spiderman.
But this spectacle at the Tanztage had nothing to do with comics. The choreography "Dual.Bodies" is the attempt of Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Ingo Reulecke to approach his big dream of flying, together with the Austrian rope-performer Walli Höfinger. Amidst live music and intelligent light and video games, the aim of this body performance is to explore the parameters of movement in space.
Walli Höfinger’s vertical leaps through the air are paralleled by Reulecke’s delicate, highly-nuanced movements on the floor. His back twists like a scorpion’s, the long legs point sharply upwards. Video-shadows of the two bodies flit over wall and stage, while towards the end the ease of flying mingles with the weight of the ground.
" Dual.Bodies" lets the stage become sky and sea, in which the moving body appears now as a bird, now as a reptile.

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