Gezeiten

Sasha Waltz

A room where traces of the past are visible. The last remaining place of

sanctuary, the final refuge. The catastrophe outside is destroying everything, threatening the captives of a common destiny, penetrating ever deeper. With »Gezeiten«, Sasha Waltz and her ensemble of 16 dancers investigate the transformations to which life is continually subjected. Seeking an expression which can fathom the physical and metaphysical strata, »Gezeiten« is concerned with the interrelation of destruction and renewal. Sasha Waltz takes divers aesthetic and contextual perspectives, bringing together the representational and surreal theatricality of her early pieces with the abstraction and physical dynamism of later works. She concentrates in particular on the crises that disrupt the normal flow. What will remain following disintegration and collapse? How do we rebuild our world – again and again? What is worth saving?