Photo: Patrycja Płanik
Tanztage Berlin 2016 is presenting Karol Tymiński’s This is a musical on 15 and 16 January 2016 (8:30 pm) at the Sophiensaele, Berlin (Sophienstraße 18). In the solo, the production of a visceral discordant and deeply queer electronic fantasy is built with a labouring body. Tyminski’s body is the instrument for the sample, the electronic music he wields comes into being through a brutal choreography, the musical is a layered archive of the bodies desire, a composition of spliced time where a history of actions that unfold in space continue to sing with deep resonance moving towards further hypnosis. The performer oscillates between tenderness and brutalism creating a beatscape that evolves towards a massive trance-like possibility space of madness and pleasure. This borderline body on stage is in rapture, he is the keeper of a threshold, he is methodically edging the audience in the direction of the ecstatic.
choreography and performance: Karol Tymiński
music: Gradual
lighting: Jan Cybis
video: Michal Andrysiak
video performance: Jeremy Wade
voice: Malgorzata Neumann
coproduction: Open Latitudes, Instytut Sztuk Performatywnych and apap ? Performing Europe 2011-16, both supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union. With the friendly support of Tanzfabrik Berlin and Centrum w Ruchu
