In Orbit - Ballett meets Jazz

In the organizer's words:

Moving spatial installation between video and jazz sound

In an installation setting, the space itself becomes the audience's choreographic partner. A large axis rotating around a point sets a gentle movement in motion and guides the visitors through the installation. Guided by the space, they circle around a center - like planets in their orbit - and thus become actors in a shared movement.

On this journey, the audience encounters projected dance videos, which appear in the space from different perspectives, and live improvised jazz music. The videos by choreographer and dancer Kauan Soares, commissioned by the Theatermuseum, are inspired by Heinrich Wendel's painting cycle "Planetary Meditations" and now enter a further phase of encounter and interpretation: New worlds of color and sound are created live. Image, movement and music interweave to create a space of experience in which moods and atmospheres are constantly changing: sometimes wide and floating, sometimes condensed and intimate. The space becomes a resonating body for perception and emotion.
What begins as a circular movement around an inner center increasingly becomes a reflection on ourselves - a journey inwards. Towards the end, this perspective opens up to the outside world: our gaze is directed from our own inner self to the other person, to encounters and contact - and ultimately to the quiet, often overlooked beauty of the everyday.

Concept and idea: Vanessa Weber, Kauan Soares
Video concepts and choreography: Kauan Soares
Video installation: Jannik Klaue
Music: Bruna Cabral (mult), Maria Medoza (fl)

With many thanks to the Theatermuseum under the direction of Dr. Sascha Förster, as well as the dancers Norma Magalhães, Elisabeth Vincenti, Andrea Zinatto, Chris Paul, Camilla Agraso, Alejandro Azorín, Sara Giovanelli and Skyler Maxey-Wert.