Wir sagen uns Dunkles

Photo: Rahi Rezvani

Choreographer: Marco Goecke

“'Wir sagen uns Dunkles' by Marco Goecke for NDT 2 begins with encounters in the studio between the choreographer and the dancers. Their meetings appear unimportant, yet simultaneously they are more important than anything else; young, naughty and evil, playful and punky. “Today, my feelings belong to the dancers, more than ever before”, says Goecke. A blink of the eye, a glance, a seemingly fleeting gesture. Just a moment or a story? What remains is a tear on an eyelash that is fanned away. How do we get closer? A butterfly that remains a second before it flies away. The sounds of
Franz Schubert and Alfred Schnittke meet those of Placebo, ‘The Swan Song’ and ‘Song To Say Goodbye’. Then there are the rattling pants, its sound interfering with the music. Goecke: “The dancers understand me immediately. There is no limit, they want to be challenged.” They move fast, virtuoso, gesticulate in peculiar ways, unconscious yet self-assured, and - whether solo, in a pas de deux or larger group - they communicate in Goecke's language, as if they had never learned another. Darkness spoken, without words.” – Nadja Kadel