"WANDERER" is a contemporary composition that combines archaic and modern elements to create a new universe of bodies in space. Elements from various folk dances are translated into new choreographic codes. The combination of different forms of expression from foreign cultures, create a new work of body based art that is full of tension- sensual and exotic at the same time, and playing with breaking down postcolonial stereotypes and eurocentric aestetics to a playful, rhythmical collective body.
Analogous to the developments in the music sector, which are known the term “world music” for years, this bold performance discovers “world dance” for itself. The fusion of optics and appearance of the movement patterns allows the audience to experience a performance that brings completely opposite cultures into a whole and makes the area of tension “foreign-familiar” tangible for every viewer and allows for reflection on one's own dealings with “foreigners” and alienation.
Wanderer between the worlds:
...Wanderer, a search for traces of home and rituals that transcend cultural boundaries. (...) Here they question dance as a social ritual that is increasingly being forgotten. (...) The nine scenes of virtuosic images portraythe balance between tenderness and brutality, between acrobatic performance and concentration right down to the last phalanx.The fulminating end is achieved by using straw elements and animal horns,costumes byEle Bleffert, creating apowerful symbiosis of the dancers into a mythical creature, which seems to have emerged from the legendary world of dark winter nights. The dance creates a parenthesisin which the members of the multicultural groupcan express their individual artistic imprints, but in which a common form can befound whichworks beyondlanguage barriers. The dance company thus creates on a small scale the world community far from thepolitical reality.
The audience ... experience dancers in top form and a choreographer who lives up to her reputation as an ambitious and innovative artist. Long, long applause for an ensemble that will be spoken about.
Katrin Schug, Luxemburger Wort
