figure 5

Choreography and Bass Lines

The choreography figure 5 sets urgent pictures of five bodies in different constellations of nearness and distance, as well as images of synchronicity and intimacy. Within a clearly defined stage area hedged in with the audience, figure 5 can be observed as a mobile sculpture. The particular set design acts as a visual frame for the physical actions and enables a game with spatial fragmentation within the given place that the performers never leave. figure 5 leads to the barriers of mobility and plumbs the potential of emotional loading that is tied to pure gestures in emptied spaces, themselves driven by the pulse of poly-rhythmic bass lines in the soundtrack. Georg Blaschke has been consequently developing his distinctive choreographic language over the years and has presented it in various formats of collaborations. figure 5 and figure 3 – an adaption of the work for 3 performers – interrelate this language with phenomenological considerations about sculpture and space, starting from the body in motion.