From August 21 to September 23, Theater Basel will be presenting a dance festival with works by dancers and members of the ensemble and guests. For these four weeks, Ballett Basel transforms the foyer into a customized stage. Entitled “Beziehungsweise” (a wordplay on the German word for “respectively” that also can be interpreted as “related to relationships”) invites visitors to the theater to celebrate the diversity of love and to experience the diversity of dance at the beginning of the season. Starting with a world premiere created and presented by the ensemble, the festival continues with a duet evening dedicated to the theme of love by Nazareth Panadero & Co and toaspern|moeller. Three solos by Oleg Stepanov, Jonathan Fredrickson, and Tilman O'Donnell will also be presented at the festival, as well as a virtual ball in the form of the interactive virtual reality performance “Le Bal de Paris” by Spanish choreographer Blanca Li.
The first performance on this evening will be “Mañana temprano.” Tomorrow morning, we will be going far away from here, where nobody knows us, and we will start all over again as if nothing had happened. Two people. Between past, present, and longing. Credibility, fragility, loss. A couple? A confrontation between memory and fiction, hope and farewell, light and dark sides. The duet plays with the composition and superimposition of dance, theater, and video as well as uncertainty as a vital and driving force in life and in the arts.
The second piece on this evening will be “Liebe” (Love). When does being in love turn into infatuation, and when does the desire for physical closeness turn into obsession? How does projection become reality, and when does the attraction to the unattainability of the other become a source of self-destruction? In their duet “Love,” toaspern|moeller explore the many states of being in love, from delusional harmony to desperate dissonance. Diary entries by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux merge with choreography and song to create a virtuoso performance that explores a desire born of distance: from the touching, to heterosexual clichés, to the comic and the cringe. For the first time on stage together, dancer and choreographer Alma Toaspern and singer and composer Mathias Monrad Møller sing and dance their way through the poetic stage design by renowned Danish artist Christian Friedländer. In the duo's typical combination of dance and music, “Love” illuminates the tension between reciprocated feelings and the attraction of the otherness of the other.
Tickets are CHF 40 for adults and CHF 10 for youths up to age 16 or students up to age 30.

Website
theater-basel.ch/en/beziehungsweise

Where
Theater Basel
Theaterstrasse 7
4051 Basel

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