on my skin
Human skin is a phenomenon. It separates the body from the environment and at the same time it builds a bridge to things and people surrounding us: hot or cold, smooth or rough, dry or wet – our skin tells us what is happening around us. At the same time it carries information about ourselves: it tells about our health, our age, if we just had a sunbath or if we are scared and break out in a cold sweat. We hide our skin under clothes and at the same time we are fascinated to see the undisguised and naked skin.
Bernard Baumgarten bans this very personal and emotional topic in sensual and flowing movements that profit from big malleability and strong colours. In „on my skin“ the dancers newly discover their again and experience a world full of opposites: alliance and separation, contact and distance, cover and discover, pleasure and pain – the skin and the individual sensation become the determining element in the happenings on stage.
Choreography: Bernard Baumgarten
Dancers: Sarah Picard, Drew Kayser, Laurence Katz, Raphaël Soleilhavoup
Music: Einstürzende Neubauten
Light: Benjamin Muhr
Costumes: Isabelle Dickes / Bernard Baumgarten
Lenght: 40 Minutes
Production: UnitControl, TROIS C-L, opderschmelz
With the support of Fonds Culturel National du Luxembourg, Fondation Indépendance
Premiere 28.05.09 / Centre Culturel Régional "opderschmelz", Dudelange, Luxembourg
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