Untitled Solo

In her new solo Shantala Shivalingappa returns to the body of movements she had learnt from Pina Bausch during her work on O Dido (1999). It was her first piece at the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Rediscovering the material from memory and relearning it also means going beyond the movement as such. What were the emotions behind the gestures? What emotions did the physical movements originally bring out? The revisited material becomes the starting point for something new. Shivalingappa’s performance fuses the remembered choreography with the new movements that complement it, contrast it and perhaps even contradict it.