Dual.Bodies - Walli Hoefinger

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Sophiensaele Berlin, 2003

Creative Concept:
Walli Höfinger (video, akrobatics)

Ingo Reulecke (choreography, dance)

Composition: Christiane Hommelsheim, Sebastian Hilken II Coaching acrobatics:
Chris Ritter II Live animation:
Stefan Dickfeld (water reflexions) II Lighting Design: Jörg Bittner, Stefan Neumann II Co-Production: Barbara Friedrich II Camera: Andrea Keiz (Mimezentrum), Hanna Lippmann II Photos: Hanna Lippmann, Dirk Plamböck

Dual.Bodies – floating.ground/research

The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually. Virginia Woolf

The performance deals with the meeting of two different movement qualities in two different space levels. One performer in the air and one performer on the floor simultaneously occupying the space represent two different states of being. The interaction between the two performers develops through their parallel presence in the space, yet at times completely dissolves. This work is a sensitive exploration of and encounter with levels of space, the fluidity of movement, the transparency of body and breath in an atmospheric media landscape.

This work was supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.

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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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Dual Bodies

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