Dance on the ice - virtuosic, fast, breathtaking!
Huge flocks of starlings crossing the sky in wonderful twisting and turning clouds. Ornithologists call these arial dances “murmurations.” For over five years the Montreal collective Le Patin Libre, consisting of fifteen ice dancers, worked on transferring this virtuosic behavior to the ice rink. Always asking why we gather, why we drift apart again and why our collective behavior is so unfathomable.
In “Murmuration” Le Patin Libre transform the traditional ice rink into a stage for contemporary movement. At high speed they combine precision, athletic virtuosity and complex choreography – with no visible effort, like a flock of birds – with the aim of investigating what everyone experiences when watching a flock of birds: the magic of a collective beauty that embodies the vital energy and fervent hope for survival.
All Information: tanzfestivalrheinmain.de/en/calendar/murmuration
Infos
ALL IN from 10 years
Duration: approx. 60 min.
No language skills required
Sponsors and Supporters
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. Developed with the support of the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund. This performance was part of the cultural program of Canada’s guest appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the government of Canada.
Choreography: Samory Ba, Alexandre Hamel, Pascale Jodoin
Music: Jasmin Boivin, Philippe Le Bon
Performance: the 15 dancers of Le Patin Libre
A project of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. The Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and the Foundation Alliance [Aventis Foundation, BHF BANK Foundation, Crespo Foundation, Hans Erich and Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation, Dr. Marfner Foundation, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt Main].