CONNECTED SOLITUDE

(Gem-Einsam-k/heit)

Contemporary dance piece for seven dancers and seven CHIMERAS on the grimm brothers fairytale

THE STAR MONEY

Choreography, Concept, Costumes and Lights

EIDENHAMMER MAGDALENA 

Dancers

-Lucia Dürrhammer

-Sophie Glaser

-Sonja Käferböck

-Maximilian Resch

-Vivian Tanzmeister

-Tamara Nicole Ziegler

-Yijing Zhou

June 2018

Muth - Concert Hall of the Vienna Boys Choir

A -1020 Vienna

VIDEOFILE:  HD Quality

 00:20:00 min (black until 00:00:25)

CONNECTED SOLITUDE

Gem-Einsam-k/heit

(c) Magdalena Eidenhammer

Film / Cut: Klaus Göhr 

“And as she was thus forsaken by all the world, she went forth into the open country…”

AUDIOFILE: 

Key messages "THE STAR MONEY " narrated in Chinese; Dutch; Portugues; English;

French;Italian; Polish; Russian; Italian; Spanish; Romanian; German

&

"JAZZ VOCAL RIVER IMPROVISATION" with Rhiannon Berlin 2018

THE CLEARANCE (I. Bankl)

"it is a dark night and no one sees thee, thou canst very well give thy little shirt away"

CHIMERA IN THE FIELD (I.Bankl)

"She reached him the whole of her piece of bread, and said: "May God bless it to thy use," and went onwards..."

CHIMERAGROUP (F. Heiler)

Artistic Research on the images of STAR MONEY

loss of parents :                            to be independent

walk out into the open field :         to know what to do

to undress in the woods :             the unconscious mind

Never averting their gaze of the audience seven CHIMERAS explore individual movement language on different room levels. 

The fascinating corporeality permits a total immersion in the fairytale. 

Each CHIMERA stands for different qualities of the main character Star Money.

Each encounter -  poor man and three moaning children asking for their necessities - gives Star Money the possibility to get rid of things that limit her. 

The piece investigates transdisciplinary transformations within contemporary dance, music, story telling, neutral mask theatre practise, light design.

To take of one's mask by facing changes in life and having the courage to meet your inner self.

Until you have “not a single thing left”...

"And as she so stood, and had not one single thing left, suddenly some stars from heaven fell down, and they were nothing else but hard smooth pieces of money..."

RECOLLECTED (I. Bankl)