Kategorie-Archive: dance

M.A.R.S

Felix and Bahar keep the spirit of being two individuals consenting on certain ways of relating to each other. Within that relation; they are reinventing themselves and create entangled tales through their re-membered bodies. They meet as equal partners in a playground where two bodies are put in an unfurling state. On M.A.R.S, Felix and… Continue Reading

Head piece

by Felix M. Ott „ Kopf Stück“ Cologne 2016 by Felix M. Ott Cast:  Valentin Tszin Saori Hara Enrico Wey Sound: Alex Kassian Text: Maru Mushtrieva Technical Support: Benjamin Brix In this video Felix Matthias Ott uses the impulse of the sculptures of F.X.Messerschmidt and translates it into the medium of the video-choreography. Shot in… Continue Reading

M.O.N.D

  “M.O.N.D” (Meditation on Non Destruction) is a collective research process on the notion of conflict and parallel reality. We focus on the principles of combat disciplines and techniques for survival tested during real combat and war situations and specifically designed for endurance, effectivity, dissolving tension and redirecting aggression. The live performance is a choreographic… Continue Reading

AN ILIAD

Die neue Arbeit von Felix Mathias Ott ist mehr als nur eine Nacherzählung der homerschen Ilias: Die Konstrukteure bestimmen mit archaischer Kraft  die Handlung und errichten trojanische Räume. Aus einer Choreografie des Bauens und Zerstörens entstehen suggestive Bildwelten und ein akustisch-visueller Raum, den den Zuschauer dazu bewegt, sich seinen eigenen Sehnsüchten zu stellen. Kollagenartig wandert.… Continue Reading

twin paradox

Whatever happens, even when the world falls apart: the dance goes on. Come hell or high water, as if it were the last resort: dancing despite everything else that’s going on. Ten dancers accept this challenge and start some kind of marathon on a stage with an orange-coloured grating for a floor. French choreographer Mathilde… Continue Reading

Odyssey Complex

Mit seiner international beachteten Produktion macht Felix M. Ott die unorthodoxe Forschungsreise in den unerschöpflichen griechischen Mythos im wahrsten Sinne zu einer eigenen Odyssey. Über den Alltag des Performers bricht vor den Augen der Zuschauer ein wahres Inferno herein. Kapitel für Kapitel folgt das Publikum einem wilden Trip durch eine Welt voller Urgewalten, Götter, Sexualität… Continue Reading

The giggling Bunnies

  In the form of contemporary picture theater the ESC ungdomskompani and Felix M. Ott thematize with The giggling Bunnies the shift from reality to the surreal environment of a dreamy landscape, a landscape of an imaginative Norway following Ibsen’s search for identity in Peer Gynt.Through individual improvisations and direct work with the young dancers… Continue Reading