Wesenwelt
- Concept, Choreography
- Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
- Dance
- Tänzer*innen der Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company
- Dramaturgy
- Philipp Scholtysik
- Costumes
- Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
- Composition
- Laura-Marie Rueslåtten (Glocken)
- Simen Dieserud Thornquist (Lied)
- World premiere 26.04.2024
- Dresden premiere17.05.2024
For "Wesenwelt" choreographer Kristin Ryg Helgebostad and composer and carillonist Laura-Marie Rueslåtten transform the ensemble into a collective musical instrument. All the dancers hold at least one bell in their hands - each with a different pitch. Every movement leads to a sound and every sound requires a movement, which makes the music visible.
On stage the ensemble acts as a collective subject in which each individual is dependent on the group and vice versa. What happens, if they can’t join together like well-oiled cogs in a gearbox? The collective whole can only exist, if it can include deviations. This results in a vulnerability which affects the collective as well as all its members - a precarious state that can only be balanced through humour.
As with a beehive, it is difficult to tell whether one is dealing with a single swarm-like creature or a multitude of individuals. And are they human? Who's to say!
Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
Kristin Ryg Helgebostad is a dancer and choreographer who combines a wide range of performative and choreographic strategies in her practice. She studied contemporary dance and choreography at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway, and now works with a range of partners.
Her pieces have been performed at various festivals and have toured Europe. She created “Soil Girl” and “Spoiler” together with the trio Berstad/Helgebostad/Wigdel. Laura Marie-Rueslåtten is one of Norway’s few professional carillon players. Together the two artists founded the handbell ensemble Ula Metall and created the pieces “Me Too/Thee Too” and “Cheers”.
Press reviews
“With a great deal of humor, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad's "Wesenwelt" examines the relationship between the collective and the sometimes obstinate individual. Together with carillonist Laura-Marie Rueslåtten, the Norwegian forms a musical organ from the cautiously awakening ensemble.” – Frankfurter Neue Presse
“A strange world all of its own: wonderful, enigmatic, hypnotic. (...) Everything is alive here and holds each other together, forming a many-armed, many-legged, clothed being, a different kind of nature study.” – Wiebke Hüster, FAZ
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