moons in a dark sky: Ligia Lewis’ Water Will (in Melody)

By Katja Vaghi, 01 December 2018

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“raw and direct, disturbingly grotesque, beautifully poetic and unwittingly explicit”

Reviewed at Hebbel am Ufer: HAU1, Berlin on 29 November 2018

Water Will (in Melody) (Ligia Lewis)

Whispering stories of butterflies and crows: Story, story, die.

Katja Vaghi, 29th August

The German premiere of Alan Lucien Øyen's Story, story, die.: manipulation, fragmented truths and lies for Tanz im August.

****1

Listening to Nature’s Whispers: Schubot & Gradinger at the Hau

Katja Vaghi, 28th February

With nature as a a co-creator, Angela Schubot’s and Jared Gradinger’s The Nature of Us premieres at HAU.

***11

Kat Válastur's Stellar Fauna at Theatre HAU Hebel am Ufer

Katja Vaghi, 21st November

Minimal yet expressive, archaic mythology collides with the contemporary world in Kat Válastur’s Stellar Fauna at the HAU Hebel am Ufer highlighting the things upon which our survival depends.

****1

Out of the black box: Projecting [space[ Meg Stuart / Damaged Good

Katja Vaghi, 7th October

Projecting [space[ by Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods is a two hour immersion between dance and performance art, a way of finding the Other within us, presented at the Reinbeckhallen for HAU.

****1

Rosas: Bach6Cellosuiten

Katja Vaghi, 9th December

Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s, Jean-Guihen Queyras’ and Rosas’ Mitten wir im Leben sind/Bach6Cellosuiten presented at HAU 1 is a raw but very sleek work on Bach’s milestone of Western music.

*****

Quantum matters

Katja Vaghi, 21st August

Gilles Jobin’s Quantum (2013) is a choreographic introduction to the mysterious beauties and oddities, generally beyond general comprehension, of the particles world researched at the large hadron collider in Geneva.

***11

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.

Unwilling moons in a dark sky: Ligia Lewis’ Water Will (in Melody) at Theater HAU am Ufer