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For two consecutive days this May, Sasha Waltz & Guests take Reethaus with a site-specific performance, drawing from a body of work rich in gestures, specific practices and states of consciousness to create a unique happening. Opening up the architecture of Reethaus, dancing not only in the inner chamber but the foyer, side rooms, terrace and beyond, the dancers express a radical commitment to awareness, offering response to all that intersects with the time and place.
Sasha Waltz first developed this approach in for the time being, taking as a basis the practice proposed by Mary Starks Whitehouse, pioneer of Authentic Movement, in which dance emerges from stillness and the dancer’s deep attunement to the sensations and images of the inner environment. Different from improvisation, this mode of dance is more about response than virtuosity or even creativity. The result, according to Whitehouse, is “simple and inevitable.” Waltz also anchors this work in Deep Listening, as described by Pauline Oliveros — “listening in as many ways as possible, to everything that can possibly be heard, all of the time.”
In Dialoge — Reethaus, the dancers respond not only to the architecture, the birds and trees that surround it and the gleam of the Spree, but also to the spiritual concept of slowness.
There are no fixed seats in the house, and the audience is free to circulate, creating a flowing matrix of perspectives guided by individual acts of agency. Audience members continuously choose how close or far they want to be from the performance, and the dancers integrate the behavior of the audience, all engaged together in a congress of deep listening and deep watching — a mobile social sculpture. The invitation is to open ourselves, like the dancers are doing, to areas we more often hide from.
Music for Dialoge — Reethaus is crafted live by the experimental composer Diego Noguera, who is deeply connected with the dancers, working on a mobile setup designed for Reethaus.
Join us this May for this vivid encounter with the present, orchestrated by Sasha Waltz & Guests.