A collaboration between Mouvoir/Stephanie Thiersch, Omar Rajeh\ Maqamat and the Asasello Quartett.

The interruption of a settled and peaceful condition, Omar Rajeh’s choreography starts with the idea of an encounter, an accident, and an unexpected disruption that shifts our perception. A meeting in the sense of a collision, a new departure point, created through an unplanned and unexpected series of events. The piece confronts us with the transformation and shifting of an original music score by Mozart. It evokes questions as to what is ‘original’ and what is ‘transformed’, highlighting this fine line between dance and music, movement and sound, classical and contemporary.

Stephanie Thiersch devotes herself to the tonal, but also the theatrical-choreographic qualities of the string quartet, and dares the greatest-possible mutual convergence of dancer’s, musicians’ and acoustic bodies. Musical and physical resonating spaces are jointly explored – adventurously balanced between surrender and the preservation of irreconcilably distinct qualities. Dance audibly becomes music; the motions of the musicians a visible choreography, and the position of the unseen conductor, director and sound choreographer repeatedly placed at disposal. Moreover, through the very subtle modern music – which is often divided into minute musical transitions and evades every cliché of danceability – combined with humorous seriousness, the piece challenges more than just our sense of hearing that has become so accustomed to urban noise.

Choreography Omar Rajeh ( Disturbance) , Stephanie Thiersch Four Four); Quartet Rostislav Kozhevnikov (1. Violine) , Barbara Kuster (2. Violine), Justyna Sliwa (Viola), Wolfgang Zamastil (Cello); Creation, Dance Viviana Escalé, Mia Habis, Mu-Yi Kuo, Valenti Rocamora i Torà Outside Eye Anna Volkland; Lightdesign Photography Martin Rottenkolber Technical Direction Niko Moddenborg Costumes Sabine Schneider Assistance Jan Rohwedder Management Béla Bisom Production Management Karolin Henze.

A production by MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch in cooperation with Omar Rajeh | Maqamat ( 2014) and Asasello-Quartet Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, freihandelszone – Ensemblenetzwerk Köln. Funded by Kunststiftung NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.