ORBIS

ORBIS

The Baroque era, with its insights into cosmology and mechanics, created the image of the universe as a delicate clockwork. The choreographer Paula Rosolen takes up this baroque understanding of the world in order to radicalize and deconstruct it from the perspective of our present-day attitude to life. We experience the rapid pace of technological progess as well as the constant flood of information as a continuous acceleration of the always-same, in which we sometimes feel like a cog in a wheel. It causes us dizziness and at the same time a feeling of stagnation, whereby we increasingly question our certainty about our place in the world.

In a continuous dance of opposites, history and contemporaneity combine in Orbis to form a hypnotic kaleidoscope in which the boundaries between eras and their styles become blurred: between movements that follow baroque floor motifs and dance notations, animals and machines of a futuristic character appear. Contrasting images converge in a constantly changing circular system in which the slightest change can lead to unpredictable results. In the maelstrom of disorientation, a new possibility space of timelessness and universal connection with the world thus opens up, in which mankind is incessantly evolving in the web of infinite contingencies

"Everything spins, flows, and floats. From the Baroque to an uncertain future. The dance piece Orbis by Paula Rosolen feels as if kissed by the muse in the Kleines Haus of the Stadttheater. Delicate, pure, and round. Rarely has a dance premiere in the Kleines Haus of the Stadttheater been so defined by such a captivating symbiosis."
Manfred Merz, Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung, 19.06.2023

Orbis is a production of the Municipal Theater of Giessen with choreography by Paula Rosolen.

CREDITS:
Choreography: Paula Rosolen
Music: Emilian Gatsov
Stage & Costumes: Lukas Noll
Dramaturgy: Caroline Rohmer
Choreographic Assistance & Rehearsal Director: Magdalena Stoyanova
Dance: Gustavo de Oliveira Leite, Pin-Chen Hsu, Borys Jaźnicki, Rose Marie Lindstrøm, Maja Mirek
Duration: ca. 70 min, keine Pause
Premiere: Stadttheater Gießen