SUITE INTERMEDIALE

WORLD PREMIERE

2010

Folkwang University Essen

A PRODUCTION OF THEATER DER KLÄNGE

“Only when the sum of the media and their variations exceeds the individual components — only then does a genuine inter-media performance emerge.”

J.U. Lensing

In Suite Intermediale, dancers inhabit the space as an audio-visual instrument. Created through collective authorship by choreographer, director, video artist, composer and dancers, the work is a dance concert consisting of several self-contained audio-visual compositions: the visual layer is the dancers' performance within a three-dimensional video and light environment; the sonic layer is the electronic transformation of live or electronically generated sounds — interpreted and controlled by the performers' movements.

Where the classical suite presents a composed sequence of music for stage dances, Suite Intermediale is a sequence of audio-visual compositions played by dancers. Approaches from Musique Concrète, Absolute Film and Expanded Cinema meet real-time computer transformation — a realtime composition that takes a different form at every performance.

Suite Intermediale was the logical continuation of an interactive-electronic theatre approach that began in 1993 with Figure and Sound in Space and was significantly developed in 2005 with HOEReographics. The technology and intermedial approach continued to play a central role in subsequent productions — Vanitas, Coda, The Lacquer Ballet.

Suite Intermediale: where movement becomes composition and the body becomes instrument.