All performances
A Solo in Fragments for Two Women (1997)
Inspired by poems by Ingeborg Bachmann. A few fragments are put together to form a coherent text that, like a diary, describes the inner monologue of a woman moving through spaces, places, and landscapes, while the boundaries between the experienced and the imagined merge seamlessly into one another. A diary of a woman who, in a delirious state, undergoes an imaginary odyssey and loses herself, where nothing seems real and nothing seems impossible.
»Time devours me. Day after day, it engraves its work into my skin, where the mirror throws its image back at me. With its teeth, it tirelessly digs a grave into the furthest reaches of my mind and triumphs over the void. It dismantles me.
Fragmented, I try to put the missing and scattered parts of myself back together; fear and loneliness nestle in the emptiness left behind by my ruins. I have been left behind, with eyes in the back of my head; overtaken by time, I run after it and after myself. I struggle with the broken pieces – dispersed in the wind of time.« (Ingeborg Bachmann)
»The perfect form of a wonderful performance, full of elegance and poetry, interpreted by two excellent dancers.« (Kiosque, 1998, Brussels)
Concept/Choreography: Toula Limnaios
Music: Ralf R. Ollertz
Dance: Francesca Bedin, Amandine Lamouroux
Assistance: Alice Gaspari
Lighting Design: Franco Marri, Domenik Engemann
Costumes: Toula Limnaios
Iron Costume: Michael Friedrichs-Friedlaender