»the spectacular final tableau swept the audience off their feet into ecstatic rounds of applause.« faz

»reading tosca« – an exciting new choreographic reading of the puccini opera – is not a staging of this opera but rather a contemporary new composition in movement and sound.
in a polyphonic tableau the choreography unifies cruel poetry and discord, horrific images, sensitive portraits and increasingly ironic and critical reflections of society. puccini’s composition is deconstructed and the smallest particles appear as though originating from a hidden space. thus the music is also a poetic metaphor of fragility as well as a mirror of the opera’s inherent destructive power.
reality, desires and visions fall to pieces. in »reading tosca« everything can be reversed into its opposite; violence, torture, feelings of powerlessness, uncertainty and desire are intertwined into a brutal world full of inner conflicts.

»a choreographically convincing reading of the opera from the dancers’ perspective is the result. toula limnaios proves to be a choreographer with fantasy and a clearsighted interpreter of puccini’s opera.« neue züricher zeitung

concept/choreography toula limnaios music ralf r. ollertz, giacomo puccini dance/creation mercedes appugliese, fleur conlon, kayoko minami, elik niv, clebio oliveira, ute pliestermann, hironori sugata lightdesign klaus dust costumes antonia limnaios, toula limnaios public realtions silke wiethe

premiere 29 may 2008
in coproduction with bregenzer festspiele, bregenzer frühling, künstlerhaus mousonturm frankfurt/main, cie. toula limnaios.supported by nationale performance netz – tanzplan deutschland by the federal cultural fondation.

the cie. toula limnaios is supported by the senate department for culture and social cohesion.

tours austria (bregenz), equador (quito), germany (berlin, frankfurt/main, hameln, krefeld, ludwigshafen, nürnberg), spain (cartagena)

© 2008 cie. toula limnaios video walter bickmann, tanzforumberlin

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