»In C« - Sasha Waltz & Guests - Terry Riley

Based on this milestone of music history, Sasha Waltz and her dancers will develop choreographic material that follows a similarly variable structure and is deliberately designed not to be afinished stage piece.

In March 2021»In C« will be performed in a first versionona livestream from the radialsystem in Berlin.

»The score of »In C« consists of fifty-threemusical phrasesand reads likestage directionsfor musicians. The thought of translatingthese detailed instructions into dance througha choreographic exploration of the musicappealed to me. The result is an experimentalsystem of fifty-threemovement phrases for a structured improvisation with clear rules and laws. The length of the piece remains variable, as does the number of musicians and dancers.»In C«is a dynamic, modular system that remains adaptable in times of pandemic. It is an exciting challenge to be able to develop so many different variations and formats from it in the future, both for professional dancers and, in the long term, for children and amateurs.« Sasha Waltz

»In C«is an experimental, constantly evolving process that once again reconceives and refines Sasha Waltz & Guests’ long-standing approach as well as the dialogue between dance, music and space, both digitally and in real life.

At the same time, it explores the potential of flexible artistic production in times of pandemic and of artistic exchange, even across national borders. F.e. the individual movement phrases have been recorded as video tutorials, which will allow dancers to learn the choreographic material digitally and remotely in the future.

A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
Sasha Waltz & Guests is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Media Partner: rbbKultur

The livestream from March 6th 2021 can be found here.