Luvos, vol. 2

(2002)

«Luvos, vol. 2»

dance, movement research: Ulrike Hager, Lisa Hinterreithner, Sandra Hofstötter, Barbara Motschiunik, Sabile Rasiti (2nd cast: Magdaléna Caprdova, SK, Anna Maria Müller, Anna Reitbauer, Zoé Alibert, FR)

composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff (FR)

light design: Thomas Hinterberger

choreography, costumes: Editta Braun

Probably the most weird and simultaneously touching vision of a brave new world of GMO's playing havoc with humanity, choreographed by Editta Braun. The piece plays with alienation and familiarity of the human body, both as an instrument and an object. What new surprises can intense views of the human body reveal? How can one define movement, body contact, nakedness, when it is nearly impossible, first, to figure out to whom each body part belongs? When one faces, so to speak, bodily illusions? Composer Thierry Zaboitzeff places Luvos in a world of cool, computer-generated grooves.

„ ... ”Austria's currently most interesting choreographer lures us with "Luvos, vol. 2" into a truly "brave new world". As if driven by invisible waves, five naked dancers lie and roll upon glowing red sand, new beings growing out of their legs. (...) Pale, crab-like creatures striving sideways through the room, finding one another, mating and breeding new worms from which again other creatures emerge... - a vision of a beautiful and erotic, yet dangerously artificial world.

Neue Kronenzeitung, Andrea Hein

Under the auspices of the appalling perspectives of the progress in genetic engeneering, the award-winnig short piece Lufus (Vorgänge, 1985) is developped with a mere female cast. A theatre of body illusion that isolates single limbs.

Body illusion theater, created 2001 in Salzburg, premiere 18 July 2001, Sommerszene Festival, Kleines Theater Salzburg

Some of the reactions on

«Luvos, vol. 2»

"Probably the most weird and simultaneously touching vision of a brave new world of GMO's playing havoc with humanity, choreographed by Editta Braun. The piece plays with alienation and familiarity of the human body, both as an instrument and an object. What new surprises can intense views of the human body reveal? How can one define movement, body contact, nakedness, when it is nearly impossible, first, to figure out to whom each body part belongs? When one faces, so to speak, bodily illusions? Composer Thierry Zaboitzeff places Luvos in a world of cool, computer-generated grooves.

„ ... Austria's currently most interesting choreographer lures us with "Luvos, vol. 2" into a truly "brave new world". As if driven by invisible waves, five naked dancers lie and roll upon glowing red sand, new beings growing out of their legs. (...) Pale, crab-like creatures striving sideways through the room, finding one another, mating and breeding new worms from which again other creatures emerge... - a vision of a beautiful and erotic, yet dangerously artificial world."

Neue Kronenzeitung, Andrea Hein