3 levels of action meet in this production of the Austrian
dance company Pilottanzt. 4 dancers, 1 musician ans 1 visual artist are transforming
the stage into a place of non-verbal communication. Pictures arise through
different situations and creep along stimulated by the events. Again working
with the electronic live-musician ILIEL from sonic research (as in Ïainos
one" which recieved the Austrian Dance Award) Pilottanzt once more
attempts to fascinate also a younger audience for dance. Via an electronic
live-set the musician interacts with the other actors ( dancers and painter).
He follows mainly a leit-motif for the single dancers and so lays emphasize
on a main line in each sequence. The painter Julian Kreisler contributes on
another level, by transfering the stage communication into pictography. Outer
and inner forces, invisible for the spectator, act upon spirit and body of
the dancers. Humans torne out of their contained situations fall into strongly
changing forms.
"The improvised acustic space opens
up for the exact choreography and precise light design with great sensibility...the
clear concise work is about a world of realtions which have nothing to do
with any classic cliché of eros and destruction. Identities flow one
into the other, subjects lose themselves in speeding sound-dunes and tenderly
woven fabrics of tone. Rituals are written on the air and erased again. ...
above the dancers a painting on a movie screen develops which gives the performance
a second and summarizing level. "It´s You-Man" shows how free
of tension and how ambigous a masterpiece can bewhen its creators are distinct
about the subject they are working on."
TANZ INTERNATIONAL / BALLETT AKTUELL
"The Austrian Dance Award winning ensemble
stakes again on the live-beats of the electronic musician ILIEL-ssr ... the
painter Julian Kreisler catches the non-verbal communication with paint. ...
A conglomerate of growing together body studies."
DER STANDARD
"... behind there simmered a abysmal
energy. The multilayered live-sounds of ILIEL-ssr interweave with a movement
language wich is full of details and still generous. ... Blaschke, Haring,
Loitzenbauer and Madl show strong performative presence while above them on
a screen a painting of Julian Kreisler develops.The piece scintillates in
the precise light design of Andrea Korosec, but even more by its concise structure."
FALTER