10000 GESTEN

In the organizer's words:

A dance piece by Boris Charmatz | Terrain to Mozart's "Requiem"

"10000 Gestures" is a choreographic forest in which no gesture is repeated, in which every movement and every human contact is fleeting - this is how the internationally renowned, multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz (*1973) describes his work. Boris Charmatz does not so much create dance evenings as sculptures into which the dancers' bodies merge. Inspired by Mozart's "Requiem", which provides the soundtrack to this work, Charmatz deals in "10000 Gestures" with the merciless maelstrom of time that drives and devours human existence. And just as time forces us to keep moving forward, "10000 Gestures" does not allow us to look back. Charmatz and his extraordinary dancers transform Mozart's highly emotional farewell music into a rousing, physical experience. A production of Musée de la danse (2017) in co-production with Volksbühne Berlin, Manchester International Festival (MIF), Théâtre National de Bretagne-Rennes, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), Wiener Festwochen, Sadler's Wells London, Taipei Performing Arts Center This content has been machine translated.