Familiar stranger

"Even if the traditions provide a rough picture of how and who this Beethoven might have been, the fragmentary and the associative seem to be the most suitable means of approaching the familiar stranger. And of course it is the music that vouches for the one from whom it originates.[...]

Integrated into the scenic stage action (directed by Nicola Hümpel), the gestural potential of this music also unfolds. [...] 

Yui Kawaguchi of the ensemble Nico and the Navigators lends the reflections that revolve around Beethoven and his time the depth dimension that consciousness cannot grasp. The expressive and not infrequently acrobatic choreographies of the Japanese dancer interpret Beethoven's music as if it were a mirror of mental conditions. [...] Is the human being nothing or everything? [...]"