Fatal Attractions

2002, 7 dancers, 60min, 14x12

Choreography: Christoph Winkler Performers: Florian Bilbao, Sven Walter, Miriam Kohler, Anna Luise Recke,Ingo Reulecke, Odile Seitz, Peggy Ziehr Music: Mathis Mootz Production: Christoph Winkler Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Dance piece by Christoph Winkler, based loosely on Shakespeare’s "Titus Andronicus”

Reviews

"Winkler’s tremendous experiment opens new dimensions for a dance which no longer wants to cater to clichés of classical or contemporary dance… No blood needs to be shed, no make-up artists need to be disturbed in order to present the shocking theme of self-mutilation with formal power.” FAZ, 28.6.2002

"It is seldom that one can experience such intellectual severity in a dance piece as one does in Christoph Winkler’s choreography which, with two actors and five dancers, allows one to feel the vibrations of ambivalent body images…Winkler’s performers work themselves up into their captivating peculiarities, especially Ingo Reulecke whose contortions in the air see the world’s understanding of gravity as a drunken question mark. A fascination evening of dance which discovers the dark desire in abstract forms.” Tagesspiegel, 3.07.2002

"…Winkler, with his wonderful dancer-actor ensemble, successfully managed to tell about phenomena like self-mutilation and amputation-desire…” taz, 3.07.2002

"An intelligent visionary is he who disolves dance without deceiving - he who inquires how far the body may or can go… his piece was not a horror-show, but a thrilling, minimalistic dance drama about human insanity of the finest quality…no pathos decorates the perfect movement-mechanism. Disturbed, mixed up, mutilated - these are the desired imperfections… this piece is a fatal attraction - and one wishes that it will climb up onto the big stages in the future.” Berliner Morgenpost, 1.7.2002

"One sees seven dancers whose relationships of tension changes with each new position in space without being able to explain to oneself why it works.” Tip Nr. 14/2002

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