The architecture of movement

Captivating start of the Easter Festival in Hall with "Chaconne What an opening of the Easter Festival of the Gallery St. Barbara! Aki Takase on the piano and the dancer Yui Kawaguchi fascinate as "architects": Their creation is a fictional city that opens up new spaces in the symbiosis of sound & movement and makes them experienceable. Fascinating! Music always plays an essential role in dance. But still, the focus is usually on the dance. The music is subordinated. Not so with Aki Takase and Yui Kawaguchi. The two Japanese Ausnhame artists create sound in movement. It is the sound of a city. The motto of the evening - "Chaconne - The City in the Piano" - is the program. This city rises from nothingness. The nothingness is the sounds. They are created as if on a drawing board. The drawing board is the piano. The architect is Aki Takase. The city is not only audible. It is also becoming more and more visible. It becomes more and more tangible. The interaction between urbanity and movement, sound and movement is the focus. Aki Takase sets the direction at the piano. She is the spatial planner. The dancer Yui Kawaguchi walks through her city plan. She is a visitor. She goes on a journey of exploration. She gives form to the music. She gives structure to the sounds. The city that emerges out of nothing is a city that builds on the known. Out of the known develops the new, the unknown. The familiar points to the future. The city of Aki Takase and Yui Kawaguchi has many faces. It is loud, it is fast. It is quiet, it is slow. It is never boring. It is always fast-paced - even when Yui Kawaguchi moves very slowly, almost meditatively. The light becomes the third actor. The light in all its facets. Light and shadow create an additional space on another level. The level of imagination. Aki Takase and Yui Kawaguhci are demanding and perhaps that is why they are so fascinating.

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