artistic direction: Roderich Madl and Doris Ebner
choreography: Madl & Ebner & Chris Haring
dance: Doris Ebner & Chris Haring
light design: Christian Weisskircher & Berno Deggelmann
music: ILIEL (suburban sonic research) & 69db (network23)
costumes: Max Wohlkönig & Christoph Birkner

" ... Fascinating about "Frost" is, that it is not the usual relationship-story which one noramlly sees in duets. It is much more and shows a tremendous joy of risk, also from the bodily point of view. This man - woman game is not important anymore, it has a truly own spirit. The piece pulls you in from the first moment till the last and one can not say what it really was, everything works exclusivly via intuition and feeling..."
Interview with Günter Marinelli by Peter Füßl, Kultur, journal for culture and society

 

The duet is a composition of sensations which meet intuitively and systematicly. Astonishingly diverse fragments are the basis of the duet. Constructed through a collage these heterogeneous fragments reflect a close collaboration of the dancers who are building a complex relationship. Through an ever-changing balance between withstanding and complying, the dancers develop rapport which they call "conspiring communication". Rough units are succeeded to scenes of moving tenderness. FROST is more a reflexion than a narration. The central theme is communication, male/female constellations get more and more relativized, gender roles change and are not anymore cleary defined. The relation between the dancers is multidimensional; a fight between active and passive, productive and destructive developes. Conscious and subconscious influences lead the perception in different dimensions which also direct spatially above and below; moments of tipping over, of "falling into the picture" - a meeting point of rising imagination and dropping vision.
FROST opens the door to a scenario where contradictions are neutralized. It leads into a world where forces, neither ideal nor terrestrial, neither good nor bad are set free, where mediation between these forces is tried.
Partly the dancers are given certain pictures, motions, atmospheres and emotional contents over which they improvise. In other sequences structures are given from which the movement material is developed. This material is put together by the artistic directors, impulses are set and the movements in their intention get defined.