The ambience is special: 39 baroque angels are reminiscent of the former chapel in which the Linz dancer and choreographer Silke Grabinger opened her urban dance venue “Kliscope” at Glimpfingerstraße 8 in Linz-Süd on Friday with the latest performance by her ensemble SILK FLuegge: ” Unter_Boden” continues Gertrud Bodenwieser’s play “Dämon Maschine”, which premiered in Vienna in 1924. The Austrian-Jewish pioneer of expressive dance, who was born in Vienna in 1890 and fled to Australia, had five dancers become machine demons. Whether mechanization and industrialization in 1924 or digitization in 2022 – the question is the same: utopia or dystopia, curse or blessing? You trace Silke Grabinger’s two-part scenic series, looking back and forward and at the same time looking at gender roles. This time there are five dancers – Elias Choi-Buttinger, Gergely Dudás, Emil Felhofer, Tomy Lee Kneringer, Kirin Espana – who initially revive Bodenwieser’s “Dämon Maschine” in jagged movements that are reminiscent of the levers of a steam locomotive. Discomfort gives way to humor when an alarm clock rings and five residents of the bush, just like God created them, rush to the drill. Quotations from Bodenwieser, for whom “dance was a confession, the ultimate expression of one’s own self”, Paul Gulda as a passionate keyboard dancer live on the electric piano, a participatory Bodenwieser audience self-experiment at the end and a helpful introduction in advance invited to a harmonious dance experience . (cash)
Source: Nachrichten
