PIECE DESCRIPTION:


"SWIM BABY!"

Choreography/concept/costumes/film editing: Karola Luttringhaus


Dance: Andrea Lieske, Karola Luttringhaus
Original music by: Rhan Small
Lighting design: Jonathan Christman/Karola Luttringhaus
Film: Hermann D. Luttringhaus, Karola Luttringhaus

"Swim Baby" is a dance about survival, about one's life being an upstream struggle, and about enjoying it in spite of it all. The movement is alternately self confined, rhythmically wavelike and fiercely physical.
A juxtaposition of inner and outer worlds is created through the use of black and white super 8 film images, which echo and augment the dancers. Often the lines are blurred between which is the real experience and which is the shadow, the action of the film being a memory in the minds of the dancers or vice versa.

Sometimes we see pure film, sometimes pure dance, at times the images are projected over the moving bodies of the dancers.
"SWIM BABY!" is a self portrait of the choreographer.
Copyright: alban elved dance company & Karola Lüttringhaus

Supported by: The National Dance Agency Swindon, Swindon/UK, Bath Dancers Coop, Bath/UK, Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin/Germany