Love | Death | Devil - The Piece by Ben J. Riepe Kompanie
Karishma Pais
Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan
&
National School of Drama
invite you to
Love | Death | Devil - The Piece
by Ben J.
Riepe Kompanie
on Wednesday, December 2, 2009
7 pm
at Abhimanch, National School of Drama
1, Bhagwandas Road, New Delhi
Passes available at Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan & National School of Drama (Production Cell)
A powerful, thought-provoking and electrifying piece! The Düsseldorf-based choreographer Ben J. Riepe's latest work is based on the five-part performance series Practise seeing beauty - Love, Death and the Devil that he created with his company in 2008.
This production starts off where the performance series with its different formats (installation, stage pieces, outdoor-performance) new techniques and means of artistic expression left off. The production is characterised by a synthesis of precise choreographic management of time, movement, space and context on the one hand, and the individual improvisational creativity of all involved artists on the other. And by a delight in powerful images and baroque costumes.
Aesthetic and macabre scenarios that assail the senses like a glamorous and puzzling picture parade emerge from within the play.
Ben J. Riepe, who studied at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and later worked with V.A. Wölfl and as a guest dancer in Pina Bausch's Ensemble, founded his own ensemble in 2004. In March 2009 he was selected by the state of North Rhine Westphalia as one of four choreographers for the promotion of excellence. With his productions he is on a quest for critical and future-oriented art that transcends the viewer's and his own artistic expectation with means that are beyond psychologisation, narration and the conventions of contemporary dance.
